OffShoot Release Notes

OffShoot 23.3.1

Fixed a rare issue causing duplicate files to be copied again (Thanks for reporting, Ben and Asgeir).

OffShoot 23.3

Check the lifespan of your ProGrade media with the new Health Check function.
Try upcoming features before they're released with OffShoot Beta (opt-in via Settings > License > Receive Beta updates).
Pro Support for Codex Device Manager 7.2.

OffShoot Beta

Pro Support for Backblaze B2 S3 cloud storage.

OffShoot 23.2.4

Added size calculation support for UDF Sources (thanks for requesting, Ziggy, Gert, and Menno).

OffShoot 23.2.3

This update fixes a couple of rare crashes. Thanks for reporting, all!

OffShoot 23.2.2

Codex HDE Sources show the estimated size again (Thanks for reporting, Joep and Ziggy).
Improved the number of Connect update messages that OffShoot sends for each transfer.
In Beta: Support for Codex 7.2 Beta. Reach out if you are interested.

OffShoot 23.2.1

Official support for Codex Device Manager 7.1.2.
The MHL per file option is now also supported for S3 transfers.
The Finder extension is now working on macOS 14, thanks to Joe and Bastian.
Some users reported OffShoot crashing at the beginning or end of the transfer; that’s fixed! Thanks for sending in those crash reports, all 🙏

OffShoot 23.2

We're renaming Hedge, the app, to OffShoot 🎉

New

A new app name, UI, and app icon ✨
Support for macOS 14 Sonoma (Codex Device Manager 7.0.4 and 7.1 are NOT compatible with macOS 14)
A completely new Connect, available at https://connect.hedge.video
Floating licenses: move your activation to any computer with a single click
A brand new Pro version:
- Pro Verified transfers to S3 cloud storage
- Pro Log in to Connect with a magic link and see all your computers
- Pro The Codex integration is now a Pro feature, with:
  - Official support for Codex Device Manager 7 and Alexa 35
  - Duplicate detection for Codex HDE transfers
- Pro Scripting is now a Pro feature
  - Supports S3 connection configuration
  - Supports setting S3 connection as Destinations

Fixes

The “Does not fit alert” would sometimes show up when setting consecutive project folders. That’s fixed (Thanks to Tim and Hannah!).
Transferring a FCP bundle could cause transfers to fail, that’s now fixed.

Important Changes

The Hedge Connect iOS and Android app are NOT compatible with OffShoot.
Codex and Scripting are now Pro features and will NOT work with a standard license.
No more accidental ejecting of disks; we removed the green eject icon. “Ejecting” can be done via the disk menu (or right-clicking a disk).
The Disk Menu option “Set Project Folder” is now called “Set Destination Folder”.
OffShoot runs on macOS 10.15 and newer

Upgrade to Pro / Floating license?

When running OffShoot for the first time, you’ll be offered to upgrade to Pro, and given the option to convert your license to a Floating License, if applicable. You can also perform these actions anytime you want in the License Manager .

Questions? Read all about OffShoot 23.2 in the blog , check out the documentation or contact us at [email protected]

Hedge 23.1.2

Official support for macOS 14 Sonoma!
The blue “updates available” ribbon now disappears after 1 minute (Thanks for requesting, all).

Hedge 23.1.1

It's now possible to disable the ProGrade integration, to get around a remounting issue when using non-ProGrade cards in ProGrade readers (Thanks for reporting, all)

New in Hedge 23.1: ProGrade

Sanitize your ProGrade media directly in Hedge with the new ProGrade Integration .
Drops support for macOS 10.14.

Hedge 22.3.2

New Queuing mode: Single Destination. First, offload to your fastest drive to get editing, and then to the slower destinations. Thanks to PhotoJoseph, Mattias, Emma, and Ben 🙏

Hedge 22.3.1

The new Finder extensions now also work on macOS 11 (Thanks, Blake!)
Hedge now handles purgeable space on your drive gracefully (Thanks for requesting, all)

Hedge 22.3

Hedge's copy engines got a massive tune-up, speeding up transfers with 20-250%. Read the blog
Start a transfer directly from Finder, with the new Finder integration (requires macOS 12.3 or newer).
Archive mode is no longer throttled by MD5's lack of speed.
Extra checksum generation can now be enabled for all copy modes.
C4 checksums are now supported too.
Transfer Logs now show the checksum and verification status of each file.
Fix for a crash reported by Jon, Hendrik, Wes, Nick, and Hans 🙏
Added support for Codex Device Manager 6.2

Hedge 22.2.9

Broken media detection; Hedge will show a warning when zero-byte media files are detected on the Source (You can all thank Judy for the idea!).
macOS Ventura has an issue setting timestamps on exFAT drives, so we made a workaround for that. (Thanks for reporting, Ben).
Want to run a script immediately when Hedge starts? Now you can, with the new Hedge Started event.

Hedge 22.2.8

Official support for macOS 13 Ventura!

Hedge 22.2.7

Fix for a rare case where preset values would be cleared after a transfer (Thanks, Patrice!)

Hedge 22.2.6

Custom date elements (available in Hedge Pro ) now automatically use the system settings if no value is provided (Thanks to Eliot!)

Hedge 22.2.5

With this release, we're bringing back a much-requested workflow: Batch Sources. You can now start transferring multiple sources in one go, all using the same preset — with just one click 🚀
Hedge now polls for changes like updated system time regularly (thanks, Hart!)

Hedge 22.2.4

Clip Review (a Hedge Pro feature) was not showing any stills, that's fixed.

Hedge 22.2.3

Fixed an edge-case that caused Hedge to crash when adding Transfers (Thanks for sending in those crash reports, all!).

Hedge 22.2.2

Added support for Codex Device Manager 6.1
MHL Awareness for ASC MHL: if a source contains ASC MHLs, those checksums are used by Checkpoint rather than regenerating them from the source.
ASC MHL history is now fully supported.

Hedge 22.2.1

For some users, the Hedge app icon had a bit of an identity crisis, appearing to be a folder. No longer, thanks to Andy and others.

Hedge 22.2 - New integration: iconik

Automatically add metadata to all your iconik assets. Generate sidecars containing all your custom elements, to be processed automatically by iconik’s Storage Gateway app. Read more...
Support for ASC MHLs for Pro licenses. Reach out if you would like a trial.
The Hedge API no longer uses a token, as it's now tied to Pro licenses. This also applies to Hedge Helper which uses the API. Reach out if you need access.

Hedge 22.1.3

The "Preparing..." state which handles indexing, MHL awareness, and duplicate detection is now much, much faster and less RAM hungry when a Source contains large MHLs and Checkpoint is enabled. Thanks, Rob!

Hedge 22.1.1

The Review pane now shows more elements without having to scroll.
The Counter would sometimes refuse to increment, that's fixed. (Thanks for reporting, Will!)
Some pop-ups were hard to read in light mode, that's fixed too.

Hedge 22.1 - Elements

You can now organize your offloads using custom metadata elements (i.e Location, Project etc.). Just pop in a source, review, and transfer ✨ (Thanks for requesting, Pierre!) Read more...

Hedge 21.3.2

Thanks to your reports, we were able to make some final improvements to the progress bar. Case closed.
The Event Log would sometimes not update the "FileCopyCompleted_state". No more, thanks to Tim.

Hedge 21.3.1

Reminder: Codex Device Manager 6.0 is required on 10.15+
Support for PhantomFUSE (Thanks for requesting, all).
The Transfer view was rebuilt to fix a very pesky bug where progress bars would not always update. Still running into it? Let us know right away.
The Hedge installer is now Rosetta-less too.
Add extra activations to your license from within the app.

Hedge 21.3

Official support for Codex Device Manager 6.0.

Hedge 21.2.4

Official support for macOS 12 Monterey!
Workaround for a GoPro issue where cards don't have correct names, and offload into a hidden folder. (Big thanks to both Gert and Allen 👏).
Thanks to Chris, Hedge no longer converts slashes in folder names to underscores.

Hedge 21.2.3

Our license provider WyDay released a fix for the activation issue present in macOS 10.13 and 10.14. Major thanks to Hedge user Jochem for finding that workaround for them 👏👏👏
Fixes a specific Presets issue causing Hedge not always to start up (Thanks for reporting, Elliot and Joris).

Hedge 21.2.2

Fixes an issue where the Counter would not update after creating a custom label (Thanks for reporting, Kelly).
Reduced RAM usage for huge transfers (Thanks to Pedro!).
Source Review has a new UI, more data types, a new Clip Review option, and an online Preset Builder. Learn more...
Hedge now runs smoother than ever. Thanks for sending in your reports!

Hedge 21.2.1

The Scratch integration no longer is case sensitive for file extensions.

Hedge 21.2 - HEDGE meets SCRATCH

New

Automatically load all backed up footage to your SCRATCH project, ready for QC, audio sync and look matching.

Improvements

Added support for Codex Device Manager 5.1.3 beta.
Time Machine snapshots would sometimes pop up in Hedge. No more, thanks to Conor and Robert.

Hedge 21.1.3

Official support for macOS 12 Monterey!

Hedge 21.1.2

Auto-Labels are now recognized by Foolcat integration.
Fixed a bug where editing a preset didn't save the changes in situ.

Hedge 21.1.1

macOS's Shared folder can now be used as a Source (Thanks for requesting, all).
The Foolcat integration has access to the new Date elements.
Selecting all files in a folder via the Browse... menu could be challenging; no more, thanks to Eric.
Hedge now runs smoother than ever. Thanks for sending in your reports!

Hedge 21.1 - Labels 2.0

Automatically create Labels in a Preset, with smart counters and more niftyness. Read more...
Change today's date, to offload cards shot in the past.
Decide when tomorrow starts... not at midnight, if you're still on set that late.
Fixed a bug that caused the File Counter to increment for every concurrent destination (Thanks for reporting, James).
Disks would sometimes show up multiple times, that's fixed (Thanks for reporting, all).
The Organize setting 'Create folders' now also works for collections of files and folders.

Hedge 20.4.9

Official support for macOS 12 Monterey!

Hedge 20.4.8

Hedge for FxFactory version.

Hedge 20.4.7

The Refresh Disks View option for the Untitled issue on Big Sur worked so well, we automated it #couldnotwaitforappletofixthis :)

Hedge 20.4.6

Added a workaround for Big Sur's Untitled issue. You can either drag a Untitled card into Source from the Desktop, or use the Refresh Disks View option in the Window menu to force Untitled card detection.
Ignore Folders now also works without requiring a preset.
Fixes for two truncated labels in the Preferences.

Hedge 20.4.5

The Hedge Trial now also works on M1 machines.

Hedge 20.4.4

Important: this release requires Codex Device Manager 5.1 for Codex transfers!
Clearing a Label is now available in the Source Disk menu.
Fixed an issue that caused Sources to pop up twice in the Connect app (Thanks, Louis-Philippe).
Enabling the Foolcat integration would not always work. We fixed that thanks to Dylan.
The queue gets ordered correctly again when starting multiple sources at once (Thanks, Neil).

Hedge 20.4.3

Added support for Codex Device Manager 5.1.2.
Added a warning when using AvidFS on macOS Big Sur.
Fixed an issue that caused transfers to stay queued (Thanks for reporting, Tyson).
Time Machine snapshots are hidden again (Thanks, Stefan and Robert).

Hedge 20.4.2

Official support for M1 Macs. Hedge is now a Universal Binary.
Fixed an issue that caused the 'Add Transfer' button to not disappear (Thanks for reporting, Andy).
Hidden QNAP .@__thumb folders caused issues and are not copied anymore (Thanks for reporting, Thomas).

Hedge 20.4.1

Fixes an issue that didn't allow a single Final Cut Pro library to be transferred (Thanks to Derek and Dylan 🙏)

Hedge 20.4 - Sorting media, and more...

Sort media during transfers, with new parameters like File Extension and Creation Date.
Copy only certain file types, with the Copy Only filter.
Ignore bundles like AVCHD, with a size filter.
Renaming is extended with Creation Date too.

Learn more...

Hedge 20.3.4

A brand new app icon to match the new macOS Big Sur icon style.
Fixed an issue which caused the trial not to start (Thanks for reporting, all).

Hedge 20.3.3

Adds support for macOS 11 - Big Sur.

Hedge 20.3.2

Fixed a bug where double-clicking a .hedge preset file did not work (Thanks for reporting, Bastiaan).

Hedge 20.3.1

During renaming, add a file counter. Useful for for renumbering image sequences.
Double-clicking a .hedge preset file in Finder will open Hedge, and install the preset.
Fixed an issue where MD5 and SHA checksums were not just calculated for non-Archive transfers. Full speed ahead, again.
'Reset Sources and Destinations' has been renamed to 'Clear Sources and Destinations', as it confused some users.

Hedge 20.3 - Introduces Organize Presets ✨

Managing a lot of media? Many different settings? Speed up your workflow with Presets. Create one for each job, production, or even camera - and switch between 'm with one click. Learn more...

Hedge 20.2.7

Non-Checkpoint transfers would fail immediately when a file couldn't be read or written. Now the transfer skips those files, and reports them after the transfer finishes.
Transfer progress bars weren't always updated properly. No longer 🎉
Some users reported Hedge crashing when a certain type of transfer completed - fixed.

Hedge 20.2.6

Added a temporary new menu item to Refresh the Transfer View to help us hunt down a bug that for some people results in not seeing all progress bars update properly. If you experience this, let us know - the more info, the better.
Fixed some issues that could cause Hedge to crash (Thanks for sending in those crash reports, all).

Hedge 20.2.5

The Transfer Alert shows the source counter again (Thanks for reporting, Chris).

Hedge 20.2.4

Connect messages are being sent again (Thanks for reporting, Todd & Nick).

Hedge 20.2.3

Thanks to Fabricio and Pepijn we were able to fix a rare issue that could pop up when the connection to Hedge's license server times out.

Hedge 20.2.2

Fixes an issue that incorrectly reported some Catalina version as being unsupported by Hedge (Thanks for reporting this first, Dan, Dorian, and...).

Hedge 20.2.1

Create an MHL for each file. Very useful when folder structures are not persistent, but you do need checksums to travel with files as a sidecar. Per request by a customer that prefers to stay anonymous 😁
Fixed an issue where in certain cases the Eject button would not always show up.

Hedge 20.2

Improved stability when the connection to a disk is interrupted.

Hedge 20.2 - Introduces Checkpoint 2.0 ✨

Create not just Backups but Archives too, with the new Checkpoint source integrity options — Complete with auto-enable, transfer sync, legacy checksums, early warning radar, and of course MHL awareness.
Learn more...

Hedge 20.1.1

Fixes an issue where Foolcat integration would not fire (Thanks for reporting, Tony).
Fixes an issue where cancelling a transfer could take a long time.

Hedge 20.1.2

Fixes an issue where FCPX bundles would sometimes cause false warnings.

Hedge 20.1.1

Fixes an issue where Foolcat integration would not fire (Thanks for reporting, Tony).
Fixes an issue where cancelling a transfer could take a long time.

Hedge 20.1 - A brand new Connect ✨

Connect all your Hedge installations
Get a live overview of your transfers
Available for iOS and Android

Hedge 19.4.8

Improved the user experience when Hedge is used offline.

Hedge 19.4.7

Hedge now supports Codex Device Manager 5.1.0 Beta.
Removed the 'Buy updates...' button for project licenses (Thanks for reporting, Ellery).

Hedge 19.4.6

Hedge now supports non-Gregorian calendar settings, thanks to Maet.
Fixed a permission issue that caused Hedge to show an incorrect license screen after reboot. Big thanks to Todd, Al, Andreas, and Rob for helping us out with pinpointing this issue.
Fixed an issue with symlinks that caused some transfers to stall. Richard, Conor, and Robert: 🙏
Improved disk permission checks for Destinations, as found by Glenn.

Hedge 19.4.5

Improved the user experience when activation is not successful.
Several bug fixes

Hedge 19.4.4 gets you ready for 2020

Hedge now comes with an installer, making it easier to bundle drivers for future updates.
This update uses a new licensing system, to allow for easier activation management. More on this soon!
Your existing license key will automatically be replaced by a new one, which you'll also receive by email.

Hedge 19.4.3

Some bugfixes and minor improvements

Hedge 19.4.2

Fixed the ParaShoot integration on Catalina (Thanks for reporting, Andy, Carl & Davo)
Fixed an issue where the green transfer bar did not fully update to 100%.
Codex 'incomplete disk detection' is now also able to fix transfers from a read-only Source (Thanks for reporting, Neil).
Codex 'incomplete disk detection' now also tries to fix destination warnings.

Hedge 19.4.1

Support for 10.15 Catalina!

Hedge 19.4 is here!

New Codex copy engine with support for High Density Encoding. Built in tight collaboration with Codex to get the most out of your mags.
Fixed the warning that PhantomFUSE disks are empty (Thanks for reporting, Willis and Josh).

Hedge 19.3.2

Improves overall stability (Thanks for sending in those bug reports).
Fixes an issue where the new Organize settings where reset after updating to 19.3.1 (Thanks for reporting, Rob).

Hedge 19.3.1

Bundle contents are no longer renamed or filtered.
Files in a collection are now also renamed.

Hedge 19.3 is here, and this time it's all about your Source Files:

Rename files automatically during a transfer
Filter files by extension, copy only what is needed
Automatically create folder structures

Want to know more? Read the blog (2m)

Folders moved to the new "Organize" settings panel
Added a {YY} parameter for 19 next to 2019 ( {YYYY}
Parameters are now draggable
Existing settings are automatically converted to the new parameters

Hedge 19.2.7

Beta support for the upcoming Codex 5.0 release. Note: only Codex 4.6 is officially supported in production!
Added security checks to detect changes to a Codex drive after a transfer has started.
In some cases, the “Source Is Empty”-alert could pop up instead of the “Source Already Transferred”-alert (Thanks for reporting, Will and Jacob!).
Source disk attributes are not copied when set to 01-01-1970 (Thanks for reporting Andy)

Hedge 19.2.6

Better performance of large transfers (Thanks for reporting all)
Empty Source detection is now more robust
Parashoot integration handles identically named drives more graceful (Thanks to Kevin!)

Hedge 19.2.5 addresses two issues:

MHLs are now also included for transfers of read-only folders (Thanks for reporting, Connor).
Aliases don't cause false warnings anymore (Thanks for reporting, Jeroen).

Hedge 19.2.4 fixes three edge-case bugs:

Auto-eject did not always work (Thanks for reporting Zack & Kevin).
MHL awareness would sometimes not kick in (Thanks for reporting Andy).
Queued transfers did not always start (Thanks for reporting Jack & Michael).

Hedge 19.2.3 fixes Duplicate Detection for network destinations (Thanks for reporting, Lucas).

Hedge 19.2.2 introduces Big Endian checksum notation

Transfer Logs now use the Big Endian checksum
MHLs now use both checksums (xxHash64 and xxHash64BE)

Hedge 19.2.1 fixes the 'Source empty' warning for Codex disks (Thanks for reporting Mindaugas).

Transfer straight into Frame.io with Hedge 19.2 , with our new integration!

Improvements

Check whether a Source is empty before starting a transfer
New Dark Mode Collection icons for folders
Dark mode text improvements
Workaroound for macOS 10.14's new sleep settings (Thanks for reporting this, Pierre & Rasmus!)

Hedge 19.1.6 Fixes duplicate detection for Collections (Thanks for reporting this Tyler).

Hedge 19.1.5 fixes two minor issues:

The updater no longer pops up automatically, preventing unwanted updates.
Clearing the Transfer List now behaves like it used to.

Hedge 19.1.4

The transfer list now automatically scrolls to newly added transfers.
Fixed a permission issue that caused MHLs not to be written (Thanks for reporting Jasper, Brennan and Vesela).

Hedge 19.1.3 comes with a big tune-up of the copy engine. Are you not just copying camera cards but migrating RAIDs, archiving frame based footage, or cloning complete drives? This update is for you.

Fixes

Fixed a crash related to transferring huge file sets (Big thanks to Peter, Michael, Jannik, Chase and Henry!)
The API Folder Format call allows for variables (Pro license required).
MHL timestamps are now UTC.
Network drives no longer complain about being full when they're not.
After activating, user details are visible immediately.

Many thanks to Chase Gustafson for providing a test bench for this release 🙌

Hedge 19.1.2

Some bug fixes and stability improvements.

Hedge 19.1.1 squashes a couple of bugs:

macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) works again (Thanks for reporting the crashes all)
we fixed progress bars that sometimes stayed blue
some disks were not reporting back to Hedge properly (resulting in missing Eject buttons, "Disk Full" alerts and "Calculating…")

Hedge 19.1 is all about Transfers:

Features

Control which transfers run simultaneously with Queuing , in the new Transfers Preference pane:

Off: all sources are copied at the same time. New transfers start while others are still running.

Single Source: only transfers of a single source run simultaneously. When finished, the next source starts automatically.

Single Transfer: transfers run one by one, even when sharing a source.

Simultaneous Transfers are now kept in sync for faster overall offloads (Thanks for suggesting this Ronald and Ben).

Improvements

Transfer Log filenames now shows Labels instead of raw volume names

Fixes

Transfer Log 'Total Files Transferred' now only counts visible items
Fixed not starting transfers due to a permissions issue
Fixed folder paths when offloading multiple folders