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  1. OffShoot
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Labels

Last updated 1 year ago

With physical memory cards and drives, you'd affix labels to media to stay organized during a shoot. Likewise, OffShoot lets you apply labels to sources, which you can use to build and extend your workflow.

Adding a Label

To add a label to a Disk, click its name, type your label, and hit Return. Doing this will set that Disk as a Source. You can also click the hamburger menu and select Add Label...

Your new label will appear in blue.

To add a label without making that Disk a Source, add the label, then click no some space somewhere outside the Disk. To cancel label creation, press Escape.

Labels do not rename a Source's actual Volume Name.

To remove a label, click the blue label, press Delete or Backspace, and hit Enter. The Source will now revert back to its volume name. You can also click the hamburger menu and select Clear Label.

Labels and your workflow

With your first transfer, you'll notice OffShoot used your label to name the parent folder on the Destination. You can also customize labels to create subfolders and add date-based information to a transfer.

Element

Description

Example

{YYYY}, {YY}

Year

2021, 21

{MM}

Month

03

{DD}

Day

23

{hh}

Hour, in 24-hour format

14

{mm}

Minutes

01

{ss}

Seconds

56

/

When a Label contains a slash, it creates subfolders on the Destination. Useful when you want to have a subfolder for each camera or day.

A/10w

Auto Labels

Auto Label allows you to automatically label a source with a specified format, whether sources are added manually or automatically through the Auto Source setting.

Whereas labels you set manually appear in blue, Auto Labels are shown within a white outline:

Element

Description

Example

{Source Name}

Volume Name

UNTITLED

{Counter}

The Source Counter. Automatically increased with a value of 1. Set the initial value of the Counter in the Organize preference pane, including additional leading zeros if required.

002

{YYYY}, {YY}

Year

2021, 21

{MM}

Month

03

{DD}

Day

23

{hh}

Hour, in 24-hour format

14

{mm}

Minutes

01

{ss}

Seconds

56

/

When a label contains a slash, and the {Source Name} element is used in the folder format so that a label will be part of the folder structure, slashes create subfolders on the destination. Useful when you want to have a subfolder for each camera, or day.

A/10

Auto Labels are auto-updating

Some label elements (e.g. {Counter}, respond dynamically when:

  • Sources are added or removed

  • You change the counter value in Settings

  • Time passes (i.e. when using date-based label elements)

  • You manually override an applied Auto Label

Date-based label elements changed

It's midnight, but it's not the end of the shoot day. Perhaps you're offloading footage from a shoot, but it wasn't shot today. If you're using date-based label elements, go to Preferences > General > Date to set which date Auto Label will use for Today. You can also specify what time tomorrow starts so you can stay organized during those late-night shoots.

Manually changing an applied Auto Label

This is very powerful, and important to understand correctly.

Let's say you're importing cards from camera A, and you use an Auto Label format A{Counter}. Adding three Sources, each gets an Auto Label: A001 A002 and A003. But card two is actually A010, so you alter the second source's Label to give it a manual Label.

What now happens is the Auto Label of the third source detects this change and alters its own label to be A002, as that is the next counter available now that A010 has entered the mix:

If an Auto Label format is part of , all new Sources will be labeled accordingly.

A Label has been set
Two sources with Auto Labels applied.
Auto Label elements
Preferences > General > Date
Auto Labels auto-update when a manual Label is set.
the active Preset