What it picks up.
Every frame Fujifilm 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
- RAF from X-Trans bodies, the larger RAF from GFX medium format. Pulled at full resolution, as the camera wrote them.
- Compressed
- JPEG and HEIF at every quality setting, film simulation baked in. Whatever the body produced sits on the card; whatever sits on the card lands at the destination.
- Video
- ProRes and H.265 from the newer hybrids, the long takes from cinema-grade modes. Sidecar audio and proxy files copy alongside.
- Metadata
- Timestamps, lens data, film simulation 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The Fujifilm particulars.
X-T5, X-H2S, X-H2, X-Pro3, and X100 VI cover the APS-C rangefinder and hybrid crowd; GFX 100 II and GFX 100 S II hold the medium format end. Stills come out as RAF (compressed or uncompressed), TIFF, or JPEG — with the film-simulation JPEG paired to the RAF file. Video ranges from Apple ProRes on the X-H2S (internal via CFexpress) through ProRes 422 HQ, H.265, and F-Log2 for grade.
A GFX 100 II RAF can push 200 MB per frame — enough to make an SD reader feel geological. Pull the CFexpress-B card and route it through a Thunderbolt reader; the offload finishes in a fraction of the time the in-body USB-C takes. Tip: point ProRes clips at a local SSD and RAFs at the NAS so both destinations write at their own natural speed.
Common questions.
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Does SyncShot work with every Fujifilm camera?
If the card or the camera shows up in macOS — Image Capture, Finder, a card reader — SyncShot reads it. X-Series mirrorless, GFX medium format, the older bodies too. No driver, no companion app.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Do the film-simulation JPEGs travel with the RAF files?
Yes. Fujifilm writes the sim-processed JPEG beside the RAF at every quality setting — Classic Chrome, Reala Ace, Nostalgic Neg, the lot — with the same stem. SyncShot copies the pair together and keeps them adjacent at every destination, so the preview you saw on the LCD is the preview Lightroom or Capture One shows the moment you point at the folder.
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