What it picks up.
Every frame LUMIX 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
- RW2 from every LUMIX generation, pulled at full resolution. Single shots, brackets, drive-mode bursts — copied as the camera wrote them.
- 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
- ProRes from S1H, S5II and the rest of the video-first lineup, the H.265 modes, the long takes that need a single-pass copy.
- Metadata
- Timestamps, lens data, photo-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.
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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.
Panasonic, in detail.
S1H remains the low-light hybrid of choice; S5 II X answers the phase-detect autofocus complaints; GH7 and GH6 hold the Micro Four Thirds cinema line, and the BS1H box body still turns up on multi-cam sets. Stills come as RW2, HEIF, or JPEG. Video ranges from internal ProRes 422 HQ and 4444 (S1H, GH6, GH7) through All-Intra V-Log H.265, with ProRes RAW available via HDMI to a Ninja V.
The GH bodies also record to a USB-C tethered SSD instead of a card — SyncShot treats the tethered SSD as just another mount on offload. Tip: V-Log clips need the paired VLog_to_V709 LUT at post. SyncShot never touches the LUT; grab Panasonic's official bundle from the linked user-guide and drop it into Resolve alongside the copied clips.
Common questions.
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Does SyncShot work with every Panasonic LUMIX camera?
If the card or the camera shows up in macOS — Image Capture, Finder, a card reader — SyncShot reads it. LUMIX S full-frame, LUMIX G micro four thirds, 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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Does the GH-series USB-C SSD-tether mode offload cleanly?
Yes. GH6 and GH7 can record to a USB-C tethered SSD instead of the SD slots — SyncShot sees the tethered SSD as just another mount when you plug it into the Mac and treats it exactly like a card. Same job, same verification, same report. No special mode, no dance with a proprietary utility. Point at the SSD, pick destinations, run.
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