A New Hedge

Lots of news to talk about today! Let's kick off with the biggest change: from today onwards, our flagship product Hedge has a new name: OffShoot And that's not all: today, we're releasing not just one OffShoot, but three: 🌱 OffShoot Solo, custom built for

Sonoma?

The yearly trek has begun, a few weeks earlier than the last couple of years, so the inevitable question comes up: can I update to macOS Sonoma? Heralded as mostly a visual update to macOS, there are quite some changes under the hood but those don't affect end

Hedge IBC 2023: Press Release

Bring your own workflow Hedge has always built tools for digital filmmakers, and at IBC2023 on booth 7.A32, we will be showcasing our latest product releases and demonstrating how they can be combined to best support your production. Our range of software has never been more comprehensive or as

IBC 2023: Bring Your Own Workflow

It’s September, and that means we’re playing our home game: IBC 🎉 With the last couple of trade shows being so busy, this year we’re bringing over almost everyone from the Hedge team to be able to give you as many demos and workflow advice as possible. We

Mimiq for Quantum StorNext

Mimiq has long since been established as the go-to solution for Avid editors and post-production facilities that want to make full use of Avid's collaboration functionality on non-Avid storage. Now, Mimiq Pro brings Media Composer's seminal bin-locking and workspace shares features to Quantum StorNext. Historically, facilities

Press Release: Mimiq Pro introduces Workspaces with Quantum StorNext

Bin-locking technology at your fingertips without the need for a NEXIS At NAB 2023 we announced Workspaces for Mimiq Pro. Mimiq has long been established as the solution for editors and post-production facilities to truly liberate Avid Media Composer from expensive, proprietary storage. One of the most important features of

The new Foolcat

"Underpromise, overdeliver." It's a mantra that we've applied since our humble beginnings. Today, we're applying it to FoolCat, our camera report creator: as promised, we're finally adding support for Sony X-OCN. Next to that, we're adding support for

NAB 2023: meet the next Hedge, and a lot more!

Spring's here, and that means we have been building a lot of exciting new technology to share with you this week. We're showing all of this at NAB, so if you're in Vegas this week, be sure to drop by N3174 👋 Today marks the

A history of Hedge

Today marks the seventh birthday of Hedge. Our CEO and founder Paul Matthijs sat down to write about how Hedge came to be, how we got to today, and where we're going next. Fair warning: it’s a lot 🙂 Rollercoaster The last seven years have been a bit

Hedge & ProGrade

The solid state technology used in today’s camera media is pretty smart, so why don’t we make use of that? When you bring your car to the garage, the first thing they’ll do is hook up a laptop to its computers. They don’t even bother looking

Hedge News - Winter 2023

We hope your 2023 is off to a good start! Thanks to you, the Hedge user base continues to grow and grow, and so does our range of apps and features. Because of that, we’re going to switch up our news outlets a bit; with so many new features

EditReady, a RAW year

As the year ends, we're excited to ship our fourth major update to EditReady. Since the EditReady team joined Hedge just over a year ago, we’ve added lots of new RAW formats - RED, ARRI, CanonRAW, Sony X-OCN, and ProRes RAW. At the same time, we'

Speed 2.0

Hedge 22.3 - the fastest Hedge, by a landslide. Plus: Finder & Explorer integrations. Back in 2016, spinning hard disks (HDDs) were the go-to option; large capacity SSDs were still unaffordable to many productions. That's what we consequently built Hedge's copy engines for, to make

Working together, without constraints

Mimiq is now part of the Hedge family. That’s good news for everyone, including existing Mimiq customers. Read on to find out why. It's a natural instinct for editors to work together on a video production. For Media Composer users, Mimiq enables collaborative editing without having to

Hedge announces Mimiq acquisition, iodyne hardware partnership and iconik® transcoding integration with EditReady

Mimiq acquisition boosts Hedge’s Avid collaboration Mimiq, the industry-leading Avid bin-locking technology, has joined the Hedge software family, where it will expand Hedge’s range of collaborative tools. The software, acquired from Indiestor, will continue to be developed, enhanced and supported by Hedge, and existing Mimiq users will become

EditReady now supports Canon RAW and the new ARRI ALEXA 35 camera

July's 22.3 release adds the popular Canon Cinema RAW Light format as well as support for ARRI's new ALEXA 35 camera A quick recap on RAW RAW video retains the complete information from a camera's sensor. But there's a price to

EditReady 22.2: Color Awareness, precision color pipeline, Sony RAW & X-OCN

The advent of HDR, RAW video, and wider colorspaces mean that post-production workflows are dramatically better at dealing with high-end images today than they were a decade ago. That in itself is awesome. But for post-professionals to make the most of the myriad of technical and creative choices it brings,

Integrate with iconik

Automatically add metadata to all your iconik assets, with Hedge 22.2.

Elements

New in Hedge 22.1 One of our earliest blogs, “Folders are not metadata” made a lot of people rethink their workflow, and we’ve heard it’s become essential reading for many. While that blog made a very striking point about not using folder structures as the sole keeper

EditReady RAW

For 14 years, EditReady has had your back transcoding your footage to an editable format, fast. And now, it’s ready for RAW.

S is for Spanning

Seldom has a journey been so winding and long as ours has been with Canister, Hedge’s archive software that has transformed the industry’s perception of LTO. Back in 2017, mLogic reached out to us, asking if we could do for LTO what we had done for backups with

The story behind Postlab for Media Composer

Postlab for Media Composer brings secure cloud-based collaborative editing to Avid editors. It’s a breakthrough, and a big deal for the Avid community.

Hedge & Codex 6

Or: Stop worrying about drive space and start loving HDE

Here's why I decided to join Hedge

Right from the start of my so-called career, I learned that if I followed the things that fascinated me, work would never seem like work. Not everyone is lucky enough to have such a choice, and it doesn't happen every day: more like every few years, but it

We've raised $3M, and what that means for you.

Huge news today! After riding a rollercoaster for six years straight, we felt it was time to take it up a notch. So, we did an investment round. Boring? Usually, yes. But not this one, we promise 🤞 For starters, we're not raising money to fuel user growth. We’