What it picks up.
Every frame Canon writes to the card — stills, clips, the sidecar files that travel with them. SyncShot reads the card once and copies what it finds, regardless of body or format.
- RAW files
- CR3 from EOS R bodies, CR2 from the DSLR generations, the dual-pixel variants and the C-RAW compact RAW. Pulled at full resolution.
- Compressed
- JPEG and HEIF at every quality setting. Whatever the body produced sits on the card; whatever sits on the card lands at the destination.
- Video
- Cinema RAW Light from Cinema EOS, the MP4 and MOV from EOS R hybrids, the long takes that need a single-pass copy with progress you can watch.
- Metadata
- Timestamps, lens data, picture-style tags, the technical EXIF the camera embedded. Preserved as the file moves from card to destination.
Where it sends.
One source, many destinations — and SyncShotreads the card once, then fans the same files out to every place you chose. Pick one. Pick five. The card doesn't spin up again for each one.
- Internal disk
- Your Mac's own drive. The fastest target — usually first in the chain so the slower destinations can feed from it in the background.
- External drives
- USB-C and Thunderbolt SSDs, spinning HDDs, anything macOS mounts. Multiple drives at once if your shoot demands it.
- Network storage
- Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, plain SMB shares. SyncShot writes over the network without blocking the local copy or slowing the card read.
- Cloud
- S3 and S3-compatible buckets (Wasabi, R2, MinIO), Google Drive, Dropbox, Azure Blob. Same job, different destination — uploaded in parallel.
How it works.
- 01
Mount the card
Card into the reader, or the body connected over USB. SyncShot sees the source the moment macOS does — no driver, no companion app.
- 02
Choose destinations
Pick every place this shoot belongs. Save the set as a workflow if you'll use it again — next time it's one click.
- 03
Hit start
SyncShot reads the card once and writes to every destination in parallel. The fastest disk finishes first; cloud uploads keep going in the background.
- 04
Trust the report
Every byte is hash-checked end to end. When the job finishes you get a report — what was copied, where it landed, every verification mark. The byte that left the card is the byte that arrived.
Common questions.
- 01
Does SyncShot work with every Canon camera?
If the card or the camera shows up in macOS — Image Capture, Finder, a card reader — SyncShot reads it. EOS R bodies, Cinema EOS, the older DSLRs, PowerShot compacts. No driver, no companion app.
- 02
Can it copy to my external drive and my NAS at the same time?
Yes. Pick as many destinations as you want — internal disk, external SSD, NAS, S3-compatible bucket, Google Drive — and SyncShot reads the card once and feeds every destination in parallel.
- 03
What happens to the card after a copy?
By default the card is read-only — SyncShot is built to copy, not move. Formatting is something you do in-camera when you're ready, never something the offload tool decides for you.
- 04
How do I know the copy is intact?
Every copy is hash-verified end to end. If a destination wrote something other than what the card handed over, SyncShot flags it and retries — and the job report tells you exactly what landed where.
- 05
Does this play nicely with Lightroom or DPP?
Yes — SyncShot is a copy tool, not an editor. It lands files on your disks and hands off; Lightroom, Capture One, DaVinci, or Digital Photo Professional picks up from the destination folder the same way it always has.
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