SyncShot

What it picks up.

Every frame a Phase One system writes — the IQ back to its card, the XF or XT to the connected Mac. SyncShot reads the source once and copies what it finds, regardless of generation or capture mode.

RAW files
IIQ from every IQ back generation — IQ1, IQ2, IQ3, IQ4. Pulled at full resolution, which on a 150-megapixel back is exactly the file you remember capturing.
Compressed
JPEG when the system was set to write one. Whatever the back produced sits on the card; whatever sits on the card lands at the destination.
Tethered captures
When you're tethered, captures land on the Mac directly. SyncShot picks up the capture folder and fans the same files out to every destination you chose.
Metadata
Timestamps, lens data, the technical EXIF the back embedded. Preserved as the file moves from card or capture folder 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.

  1. 01

    Mount the card

    Card into the reader, or the back connected over USB. SyncShot sees the source the moment macOS does — no driver, no companion app.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  1. 01

    Does SyncShot work with every Phase One system?

    If the card, the back, or the system shows up in macOS — Image Capture, Finder, a card reader, a tether — SyncShot reads it. XF camera systems, XT field cameras, every generation of IQ digital back. No driver, no companion app.

  2. 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. With IQ4 files that's exactly the case parallel destinations were built for.

  3. 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.

  4. 04

    How do I know the copy is intact?

    Every copy is hash-verified end to end. With IQ4 files this matters — if a destination wrote something other than what the back handed over, SyncShot flags it and retries.

  5. 05

    Does this play nicely with Capture One?

    Yes — SyncShot is a copy tool, not an editor. It lands files on your disks and hands off; Capture One picks up from the destination folder the same way it always has, no matter where SyncShot put it.

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