July News!
Hi everyone!
We're halfway through 2026. Here's a quick rundown of what we shipped this spring.
Shared Licenses
Managing license access for collaborators has always been a bit of a headache: copying keys, sending them over Slack, and hoping they don't end up somewhere they shouldn't. Shared Licenses fixes that. You can now grant a collaborator access to a Hedge app directly from your own license, without ever sharing your original key. They get a dedicated temporary activation, you keep full control, and your license stays private throughout.
The best part shows up when a project wraps. Revoke access the moment the work is done. No awkward follow-up messages, no wondering whether your key is still floating around someone's inbox. For producers, post supervisors, and anyone working with freelancers or external contractors, it turns a messy, manual process into a couple of clicks.
OffShoot
OffShoot's Transfer Logs have always given you a paper trail, but they only tell part of the story. Reports take it further, combining any number of transfers into a single PDF or HTML document that shows a production's data at a glance. You get a top-level summary of sources, destinations, and verified copies, right down to per-card details and individual file listings.
With Clip Awareness enabled, thumbnails and metadata are pulled in automatically. Pro users also get that metadata exported as JSON, ready to feed into automations or downstream tools like a MAM. We built Reports over the course of a year with real users. It's exactly what you'd want to hand a client or post supervisor at the end of a long day on set.
A slow transfer or a failed offload traced back to outdated firmware is the kind of problem that should never happen, and usually doesn't if you catch it in prep. OffShoot 26.2 checks whether a firmware update is available for your connected OWC media and flags it before you start the offload. It's a small addition, but the kind that quietly saves your day. Load your cards, check your gear, then shoot.
OffShoot 26.2 also introduces Global Settings, a small but welcome change for anyone sharing a data management laptop on set. Presets and settings stored globally are available to every user on that machine, no matter who configured them. Pair it with an MDM solution, and you can push a consistent OffShoot setup across an entire fleet of machines. Everyone picks up the same laptop and gets the same OffShoot, every time.
Mimiq
Managing shared storage for a large Media Composer team has always involved a fair amount of overhead: getting every editor set up with the right Workspaces and storage, every time. Workspace Groups solves that. By bundling a set of Workspaces into a named Group and sharing it with the whole team in one click, everyone mounts exactly what they need without any manual setup. It's the final piece in Mimiq's Workspace puzzle, rounding out a trio of updates: Managed Workspaces, Sort/Search/Filter, and now Groups. Together, they make running Media Composer at scale feel a lot less like herding cats.
📄 The why and when of Workspaces
Canister for Mac
There's a quiet rumor in the LTO community that LTFS is dying. We think not! The real problem has always been vendor implementations, not the format itself. IBM and HP LTFS have never played nicely together, creating accidental hardware lock-in that defeats the whole point of an open standard. Canister 26.1 fixes that with a new LTFS implementation that lets you freely mix IBM, HP, and Quantum drives across LTO-5 through LTO-9, without friction or dependency on any vendor's release schedule. IBM LTO-10 support is also included.
📄 How I learned to stop worrying and love LTFS
That's all, moving into the summer!
Best,
Team Hedge