March News!

A wee bit later than usual, but here's our latest newsletter! This month, we have news about NAB, OffShoot, Canister, and Arctic. NAB A week from now, the yearly trek to Vegas starts again. With Central Hall being renovated this year, the most fun is again to be

Cascading

Ever had one of your backup drives performing considerably slower than the others? It's a situation every video professional runs into sooner or later. Not all drives are made equally, after all. The solution? Cascading. With cascading copies, you first copy to your fastest drive. Then, you use

2024 - Back To The Future

It's becoming a bit of a tradition - looking back at last year and looking forward to what we can expect from us in the coming time. Last year was a tough year for many in the industry; again, fewer productions were happening worldwide due to many factors,

Goodbye, PostLab Classic

Last month, we shut down PostLab Classic's servers. Time to look back and reflect on why we needed a new PostLab. Since 2019, Postlab Classic brought the industry streamlined remote workflows, and defined a new way of working together that will never go away. We fondly remember when

Black Friday 2024

Until Dec 7, all new licenses and upgrades to Pro are 20% off. Yes, that includes bundles 🥳 New Licenses Always wanted to add another app to your workflow arsenal? Now’s the time: * OffShoot - OffShoot Pro * EditReady - EditReady Pro * EditReady Server * FoolCat * PostLab - PostLab Pro * Mimiq -

OffShoot 24.4 — Ingest

Media management isn't always as straightforward as offloading cards one by one. Imagine you're on the receiving end of a shoot that didn't have good data handling practices. Receiving an SSD with twenty Untitled folders, each with clips with default filenames like CLIP001.mov

OffShoot 24.3 — A very fication update

Hot on the heels of last month's OffShoot 24.2, bringing you new ways to handle your sources, this update is very much about verification. Plus, we're bringing back something lost… Verification is an integral part of everything we do at Hedge, and thus, it'

New Cameras!

💡Update! On September 5th, we added support for CODEX High Density Encoded MXF clips. Hey everyone! It's summertime, so it's traditionally a time for many camera updates to land. In the last few months, we've been collecting a bunch. Today, we’re releasing updates

100 months of Hedge!

This July, it's 💯 months since we came to the scene with a wee app called Hedge. Man, a lot has changed since 🤩 To celebrate, we're going to do something special: This month only, every license purchased or extended gets an additional 12 months of updates and

Getting started with PostLab 2.0

PostLab 2.0 is a collaboration management tool for all creatives to work on shared project files collectively, check out what they need to work on and create a saved version history. We’ve put together a PostLab 2.0 introduction FAQ that should help answer many questions. PostLab Classic

PostLab 2.0 FAQ

What is PostLab? PostLab is an invention of Jasper Siegers, who was working at EO, a major Dutch broadcaster. PostLab was an internal development project to help the editing team manage FCPX productions. With EO migrating to Avid, Jasper was looking for a way to continue working on PostLab. PostLab

Migrating to PostLab 2.0

💡Phasing out of PostLab Classic will start in September 2024. To help with understanding the implications of moving from PostLab Classic to PostLab 2.0, we’ve put together a FAQ that should help answer many questions, plus a Getting Started with PostLab 2.0 blog. Migrating For technical reasons,

Tape Libraries, new in Canister 24.2

At Hedge we pride ourselves on creating apps that make light work of the difficult stuff, and this Canister release is no exception. Back in 2018, Canister proved to be a landslide departure from the overly complicated and technical user experience that seemed to be intrinsically linked to LTO software.

A refreshing take for Mimiq

One and a half years after bringing Mimiq into the fold, we're proud to release what has been our goal with that acquisition since day 1: full parity with NEXIS workflows. With today's 24.2 release, we fully close the gap between NEXIS and third-party storage

OffShoot 24.2 - Straight From The Source

Just two months after we released the much anticipated Stop & Resume functionality, we're happy to introduce you to our next major OffShoot release. This update does not pack one new feature, but three! Just like in the real world, where ergonomically designed tools are a true pleasure

Press Release: Improve your creative workflow with Hedge at NAB 2024

Unlocking Creative Potential: Hedge's Latest Innovations Elevate Workflow Efficiency and Collaboration for Artists Everywhere Utrecht, The Netherlands, 14th April 2024: Spring is here, and that means the Hedge team is springing into action for NAB 2024! They have some incredible new developments across all of their workflow app.

Working with LTO? Know your HBA

Decoding the Invisible: The Critical Role of Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) in a Seamless LTO Setup When people are looking at moving their archive to LTO, most don't realize the amount of moving pieces that makes up a working LTO setup. Besides all the required drivers and frameworks,

A new home for Final Cut Library Manager

Ten years after coming to the scene, Arctic Whiteness' Final Cut Library Manager gets a new home at Hedge. Born out of their own needs in the editing room, back in 2014, Vincent Zorzi and Timothy Arms released Final Cut Library Manager to deal with FCP's ability

The future of PostLab

Hi there, Paul here - Hedge's CEO. We’re ready to share some really exciting news about the next steps of PostLab's evolution. Maybe you’ve already heard some bits about it around IBC or the Creative Summit, maybe you haven't, so I wanted

All good things come in threes

EditReady, FoolCat, and OffShoot all get a major update At Hedge, our goal has always been to help our users bridge the gaps between the different stages in your workflow by bringing you apps that work with you, not against you through robust functionality and beautiful simplicity. As handing off

Everywhere All At Once

Going on tour with a musical artist or band might appear glamorous, but filming every night quickly becomes a feat of endurance. There’s prep and setup during the day, the concert itself in the evening and then a late night spent copying all the footage to a secure location.

Canister 24.1

It's only week 2 of the year, and here's our first major release 🎆 This time last year, Canister 23.1 inherited a small but powerful feature from OffShoot: Collections. The idea was simple but perfectly formed - instead of archiving a single folder, Collections allow you

2023: Looking back, and forward

It's a plane… It's a rocket… It was 2023! Last year went by super fast, and so much has happened. Let's look at all that happened, sprinkled with a sneak peek of what's coming. Happy Birthday We kicked off 2023 with a

Visiting Cupertino

Four years after launching PostLab at the 2019 Creative Summit in Cupertino, Apple thankfully decided it was time again to do an in-person conference on all things Final Cut Pro and Motion. To Cupertino, we went, and wow, did we have a blast 🛫 Coming from all over the world, and

The next step for Canister

Welcome to a new chapter in Canister's journey, with not one but two releases! After last week's OffShoot release, it seems fitting that our next release cements our belief in ensuring our products are native on Mac and Windows. Besides bringing a massive update to Canister