Features
Everything, in one box.
No Pro tier, no add-ons. The list below is what you get for $149 — and where something is not ready yet, we say so.
The copy engine
Paranoid where it counts.
Read once, write everywhere
The card is read a single time and streamed to every destination at once — the reader is the bottleneck, so it is never asked to do the same work twice.
Read-back verification
Every destination file is re-read from the disk with the OS cache bypassed and compared to the source hash. A write that “returned OK” proves nothing.
Crash-consistent journal
Every state change is committed before the I/O happens. Kill the app or pull the power: it resumes at the exact file, and a half-written file never carries its real name.
Resume inside a file
A partial file is not thrown away — its bytes are re-read and byte-compared against the source before the copy continues. Evidence, not assumption.
Device-aware scheduling
Jobs on unrelated drives run at once; jobs sharing a disk queue politely. Nothing thrashes a single spindle.
Checksums that fit post
XXH3 by default; MD5 and SHA-256 optionally, computed in the same read pass — no second trip over the card.
The card
From “inserted” to “safe to erase”.
Automatic detection
RED, Sony, Panasonic/Canon XF, Blackmagic and generic DCIM structures are recognized on mount, with the reader speed called out when it is on the wrong port.
Reel names that make sense
A001, A002… per camera, with camera-embedded reel names always winning over our counter. Gaps get flagged: “A005 is missing”.
Card library
Label a card once; Olycen tracks its history across the season — uses, wear, and which reels came from it — and asks for confirmation instead of guessing after a format.
Format only with proof
The format button unlocks only when every file is verified on at least two physical devices. Then it still asks you to type the card label, and writes the act to the audit log.
Unreadable cards get guidance
When a card appears but will not mount, Olycen says “do not initialize” and walks you through reseat → cable → camera → rescue. macOS just shows a mute dialog.
The automation
The rest of the DIT’s night.
Proxies
H.264/HEVC proxies rendered after verification at background priority — the offload never waits for a transcode.
LUT dailies
.cube 3D LUTs applied on the GPU with clip name, advancing timecode and watermark burn-ins. ProRes 422 or H.264 out.
Clip metadata
Codec, resolution, frame rate, duration and start timecode from MOV/MP4, our own MXF reader, and camera sidecar XMLs — no vendor SDK needed.
Consistency guards
A clip shot at the wrong frame rate, a zero-length file, a corrupt header — flagged on set, where it is still a sentence and not a disaster.
Reports
Native PDF plus CSV and ALE: per-card offload reports, day reports, hashes, destinations, attention flags — and your name in the footer.
The hand-off
Proof all the way to post.
ASC MHL v2
Written next to the footage on every destination, verifiable by any MHL tool. Re-verify a drive months later, with a report.
Delivery profiles
Editorial (proxies + reports + MHL) or full OCF, packaged with read-back verification and a fresh MHL for the package itself.
Chain of custody
A signed hand-off sheet: contents, sizes, MHL reference, and the two signatures that matter when a courier loses a drive.
Cloud and SFTP
S3-compatible upload with client-side ETag verification, or SFTP with size checks and hash spot-checks — labeled honestly, never overstated.
Offline-first delivery
Lose the connection and the delivery parks itself in “waiting for connection”, then resumes. Nothing is ever “sent, probably”.
The set
Built for the room it lives in.
Set dashboard, local only
A QR code puts live status on the producer’s phone over the set’s own Wi-Fi. Read-only, token-protected, no cloud account, no internet.
Dark by default
A tool that lives in a dark tent should not glow. Light theme is one click away and equally finished.
Keyboard-first
⌘K reaches everything; arrows walk the board; the menu bar keeps a quiet eye while you work in another app.
Engine outside the app
Transfers run in a separate process. Quit the window, crash the UI — the copy keeps going.
No telemetry
Nothing is collected. When something breaks, you export a diagnostics file and decide whether to send it.
Not yet — and we will not pretend otherwise
- RED R3D and ARRI proxies need the vendor SDKs; licensing is in progress. Copy, verify, MHL and reports already work on those cards today, and proxy support will arrive as a free update.
- Audio-synced dailies, LTO archive and multi-station sync are post-launch work, not launch promises.
- Windows is not planned. Olycen is native macOS, all the way down.