The Hedge backup and verification software program app has turn out to be OffShoot. OffShoot presents quick, verified information transfers with metadata administration for offload and ingest workflows.
OffShoot goes past conventional backups and as a substitute, it’s a complete resolution that handles copying, verifying, organizing, and reporting. It ensures your media’s safety which is an important factor.
As a way to assist a wider vary of shoppers, OffShoot will probably be accessible in a number of completely different variations:
🌱 OffShoot Solo, customized constructed for iPadOS
🌱 OffShoot, the evolution of the Hedge you all know so very effectively
🌱 OffShoot Professional, a house for high-end options and workflows
OffShoot Solo
Prior to now having the ability to get media onto an iPad was at all times hindered as a result of USB-2 velocity of the Lightning bus. However now, due to iPads with Thunderbolt operating iPadOS 17, and the appearance of huge energy banks, iPads may give you offload speeds which can be on par with MacBooks and NUCs.
For this very cause, OffShoot Solo has been tailored for iPad, and makes use of every thing the {hardware} has to supply. You’ll be able to offload to the inner SSD, to exterior SSDs, or to each on the similar time. With Checkpoint verification expertise, optimized for Apple silicon, OffShoot Solo presents a cell workflow full with Switch Logs, MHLs, and XXH checksum verification.
OffShoot
The app previously referred to as Hedge has been revamped with an up to date person interface and app icon. So how does OffShoot differ from Hedge? Nicely, there are a couple of modifications.
The primary is that seats have been changed with activations. Now, all OffShoot licenses let you register all of your computer systems utilizing a single license key, even when the license has just one activation. Your activation will float to whichever pc has OffShoot open. As quickly as you activate a brand new pc, OffShoot lets you transfer the activation to your present pc with out having to depart the app.
As all computer systems you put in OffShoot on will keep in mind your license key, the subsequent time you open OffShoot on one in every of them, it’ll mechanically supply to maneuver the activation to that machine with out requiring a license key.
Seven years in the past Hedge introduced Join, which was an industry-first characteristic that allowed you to obtain a push notification in your iPhone or Look ahead to a switch report.
The unique Join was iOS-only, and the second Join installment was accessible for each iOS and Android, with this third era, Join has been delivered to the cloud.
The rationale for this cloud integration is that information administration right now is rather more about collaboration. In 2021, Hedge made it doable to see reside transfers from multiple pc in a single app, and now with Join 3.0, you get a reside dashboard that offers you a right away overview of which of your computer systems are offloading, what they’re offloading, and the way lengthy it is going to take to complete.
With the remainder of OffShoot not a lot has modified from Hedge. The one change is that you just not want to make use of the now-legacy iOS and Android apps as you may merely set up join.hedge.video as an online app on the house display of no matter sort of system you’re utilizing.
OffShoot Professional
OffShoot Professional is the high-end model of OffShoot, and it’s actually just for a choose quantity of people that want options that aren’t required by quite a lot of customers. These options often contain automation, integrating OffShoot into workflows and pipelines, or concern enhancements for high-end cameras.
In OffShoot Professional, there’s a Preset Builder that enables for rather more advanced presets. There may be an API to automate your workflow or combine OffShoot right into a pipeline, in addition to ASC MHLs, the successor of Media Hash Lists constructed particularly for Netflix-type workflows.
So what else does OffShoot Professional supply?
Codex & Scripting
The Codex copy engine that was constructed with X2X, the proprietor of Codex, has very particular options tailor-made to Codex’s approach of working with media. The RAW information stream coming from an ARRI digital camera is so excessive that the overhead of utilizing a file system to retailer that information on an SSD is an excessive amount of. That’s why Codex information the info stream direct-to-disk, solely to reconstruct a digital file system when mounting the drive. As a result of virtualized file techniques are comparatively gradual to generate they’re too gradual for OffShoot’s indexing expertise, so the Codex copy engine has particular guard rails and security switches in-built.
With the discharge of Codex Machine Supervisor 7, which is required for the ARRI ALEXA 35, the Codex engine has been moved into OffShoot Professional.
With OffShoot Professional, you’ll not solely acquire Scripting and Codex assist, but additionally Professional Presets, the API, and one other new Professional characteristic, S3 transfers.
Cloud Locations
Shopper cloud drives like Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive, are all gradual, have huge latency, and have utilization caps. That doesn’t minimize it for critical workloads, and also you ned one thing like S3.
With S3, information will not be saved in a file system however in object storage. With object storage, information are accessed through an API. Amazon was among the many first to carry object storage to the cloud in 2006. 99% of cloud providers are constructed utilizing S3.
S3 is an easy and economical strategy to retailer and entry information within the cloud and has turn out to be synonymous with object storage. S3 is arguably the de facto commonplace to entry skilled cloud storage, identical to a file system is the de facto commonplace to entry information on a tough drive.
Cloud drives don’t supply the verification degree you’re used to getting with native storage as all of them use a neighborhood cache to retailer media, which then will get verified. S3 helps verification, however not in the identical approach as native storage like SSD, NAS, and RAID. As a consequence of S3’s multi-part nature, checksums work very in another way. With S3, every file is chopped up, and every half is checksummed.
Along with Amazon AWS, they’ve engineered a approach to have the ability to cross-verify server-side multipart checksums with domestically generated file checksums. That’s important for skilled 3-2-1 workflows described by Netflix of their Knowledge Administration transient.
It’s now doable to make use of commonplace off-the-shelf S3 with out the everyday caveats of cloud storage. OffShoot Professional permits you to work together with S3 like a tough disk.
OffShoot Professional lets you browse a bucket (a bucket is sort of a disk partition, however on S3) with out instantly accessing the info like Finder does. A bit akin to how LTO works, OffShoot Professional lets you browse your cloud storage, and solely when transferring does it really add to the bucket. All modifications are solely performed using Amazon’s official S3 APIs, to make sure full information integrity.
With OffShoot Professional’s native Amazon S3 integration, productions can now get their media into the cloud in a protected, verified, and inexpensive approach.
Paired with EditReady’s transcoding energy, OffShoot Professional presents a improbable strategy to rapidly offload OCF domestically, create proxies, and push these to S3 for editorial.
ASC MHL
One other huge characteristic in OffShoot Professional that hasn’t gotten a lot consideration is ASC MHL. The successor of the unique Media Hash Checklist was created by the ASC along with a committee of {industry} representatives like Netflix and software program distributors. It focuses on making a paper path of media, copies, and checksums.
ASC-MHL is just not for everybody, so Media Hash Lists stay accessible in each OffShoot and OffShoot Professional.
Join Professional
Join has a brand new extra characteristic for Professional customers. With OffShoot Professional, you don’t should fetch every system’s Join Code, as all transfers are performed with OffShoot Professional are mechanically synced with Join. You need to use your e mail or license key as a substitute of logging into your Join dashboard with a Join Code. You’ll see all units registered to your license key within the on-line Join dashboard.
This characteristic is ideal for information handlers and media managers who work with a number of groups or places and have to preserve tabs on all media that’s being offloaded. Constructed along with ENVY’s London-based DIT division CAPTURE, Join Professional supplies a lacking hyperlink in lots of workflows.
Upgrades & Updates
Each Hedge license that’s eligible for updates after October 1st, mechanically rolls over into an OffShoot license. Your license key stays the identical, simply set up the replace that will probably be made accessible within the app and have your license key at hand so you may register your pc for Floating if wanted.
To have a good time the launch of OffShoot, and OffShoot Professional, a deal is offered to everybody to improve their license to Professional. Each Hedge license proprietor will obtain an e mail with a customized hyperlink to a particular checkout for no matter is relevant to your license, updating to OffShoot, upgrading to Professional, extending your license, or the entire above.
Pricing
Above you may see how a lot the completely different variations price. You may also do a 10-day free trial.
