For video and post production

Where the time goes

• Copying the cards. Checking that everything is there and usable.
• Handing over. Verifying that a delivery is complete.
• In the archive. Finding a particular shot later, when nobody remembers which folder it is in.

In all three cases the detour is the same: start the editor or a player, go through clip after clip.

What changes

Every clip gets an image. The list of numbers becomes a contact sheet where you recognise scenes. That applies to BRAW, R3D, ARRI MXF and ARI just as much as to MP4, MOV, MKV and the other standard formats.

For footage on a NAS

Footage rarely lives on the system drive. External drives are included in every plan, network drives and NAS come with Studio. For edit suites working off a shared volume, that is the decisive point.

What the preloader is not

It is not a player, not a screening tool with markers, and not a transcoder. It answers exactly one question, but immediately: what is in this clip.