ShotPut Pro v. 5 – worth the upgrade?

[Dan Montgomery]

Thanks for the error log. It shows the checksum failure is on SPOTLIGHT files.

In Preferences, turn off copying Hidden Files/Folders and this will not happen.

Video logging is just the beginning…

[Dan Preston]

I’ve used v5 (5.0.3) seven times since I “upgraded” a few days ago.
In that time it has:
– crashed (frozen) twice after a successful offload
– frozen 3 times on launch … the “attached media” window remains blank and all I get is the dreaded spinning beach ball.
Running on a 2011 MacBook Pro with OS X 10.8.3
So pretty much unusable for me. Looks like I’ll revert to v4 for now.

[Trevor Ward]

I have a general question about ShotPut, if you all don’t mind.

For the past several years my work flow has been simple.
1. Insert camera card into card reader.
2. Plug in two separate hard drives (my archive drives).
3. Create a folder in each drive with the date and some description. This is my Roll #.
4. Copy all the contents of the card into the folder in each hard drive.

The problem with this method is that it’s a bit slow AND, the contents don’t always copy to both locations correctly. Each folder may be off by a few bytes. That worries me.

So are you guys using ShotPut to automate the copying of the contents of your data cards onto one or more archive drives? What else are you using it for? Why wouldn’t I use Prelude or some other solutions?

BTW, I don’t work off these hard drives. They are meant only for archiving and keeping two copies. I will work off a RAID or directly on the computer hard drive (so therefore have a third copy).

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL