ShotPut Pro

Multimedia files are widely used nowadays and come in various size and quality specifications. Having to work with pictures and videos might waste some of your time until data is transferred to your workstation. However, with applications like ShotPut Pro the process can be automated so you just plug in the storage device and the rest is taken care of.

The main advantage is that the application is able to automatically detect and offload an abundance of media files. Images and movies of various formats, as well as devices that range from Compact Flash, SDHC cards to Panasonic P2, Alexa, RED and more.

If the storage device you plug in is only used for multimedia, then through a series of adjustments, you can make the application automatically detect and offload data to a specified directory. Otherwise, you need to manually navigate to the desired location and simply drag files over the main window to get them ready for processing.

What's more, when triggering the offload, the whole process depends on selected presets you can easily create. These let you specify several output settings, such as destination path or output file naming options, which can also be enhanced with a prefix and suffix.

Several other settings can be managed as well. Files can have integrity verified through methods like MD5, SHA or CRC Checksum, file size or none at all. Alerts are issued if verification fails but this can be toggled off.

A format option lets you have the storage device made as good as new when the offloading process finishes. If this task is of great importance, the application is capable of automatically sending an alert via email, with the possibility to attach the log file for details on the result.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that ShotPut Pro can save a great deal of time if your work revolves around multimedia files. Detection and offloading are done quick, while the interface poses no accommodation problems whatsoever. It can even simply help you copy pictures from your camera faster and have them automatically renamed for more comfort, making for a neat application overall.