It’s by far the simplest tool on the market and it’s extremely intuitive. Hedge for Max version 1.0 was released today, and I had a chance to check it out and try it before its release. In comes Hedge for Mac, a new transfer management software. The starting screen of Hedge for Mac Hedge for Mac – the new kid on the block At $399 for the annual subscription, it’s also the priciest option I know of. It’s $99 as a standalone product, but also comes as part of the Red Giant Shooter Suite which contains also Pluraleyes, Instant 4K, and Frames.Ī much more advanced type of transfer management app is Pomfort’s Silverstack, the de-facto standard for digital intermediate technicians on sets, adding much more functionality for organising large amounts of transfers from multiple sources, and now even adding color grading functionality to create preview looks for batches. Offload also does verification and gives you previews of your transferred files. Red Giant’s Offload is another simple transfer management tool, too, but it only supports transfers to up to two drives. The downside of it, at $99, it’s not super cheap for a relatively straightforward tool-and that’s only a single CPU license. It’s a relatively easy to use software package that enables you to do transfers from one source to up to 5 destinations at once, verified, without clogging up the transfers. I have been using ShotPut Pro for a long time now, and I like it. Until recently, there weren’t many feasible software solutions available. This is exactly where data or transfer management software comes in. Other transfer management solutions on the market Last but not least, you never know if every bit of your data is correctly transferred when using the normal Finder / Explorer copy function. Secondly, I am aware that this can be a huge effort simply because of the fact that you have to drag-and-drop one by one and wait until one transfer is done before you can start copying onto the second and then the third drive, because if you did it simultaneously from the same source, it can stall completely and introduce errors into the whole process. Well, let’s put it this way – first of all, you should never rely on one copy of your data, be it on a normal hard drive or RAID, three is the standard to ensure a proper level of safety backup if things go wrong. Let’s be frank, dealing with data isn’t the sexiest thing to talk about, and most people do drag-and-drop transfers of their footage in the Finder (or Windows Explorer) and assume everything is safe when it’s done. I had a chance to review it and also compare to existing other solutions on the market. Hedge for Mac, a new transfer management software was released today.
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