PRICING Two ways to have it
Free with Cutvey. Nineteen dollars a Mac a year without it.
There is one edition. Every verification mode, every manifest format, camera reports, Safe Erase, the automated chain and the whole automation surface are in every copy. Nothing here is a Pro tier, and there is nothing to add on.
Included
With any Cutvey subscription
If you already run the business on Cutvey, Offload comes with it. Your plan decides how many Macs.
Activated with the same account you already sign in with.
Cutvey is the operating system for video production companies: proposals and contracts, call sheets, timecoded review, invoicing and delivery. See the Cutvey plans.
Open dashboardStandalone
Cutvey Offload on its own
For a cart that does not need the rest of Cutvey. Same app, same everything.
Add Macs as the cart grows. Cancel and the app stops renewing.
- Every verification mode, FAST through PRO
- Classic MHL, ASC MHL v2 and checksum lists
- Camera reports, ALE and CSV export
- Safe Erase and the automated chain
- URL scheme, HTTP API, event scripts, S3
Free trial on either route. Downloading the app needs a Cutvey account, and the trial is how you get one.
01 What you are actually buying
Not the copy. The join.
Verified copying is not a defensible thing to charge for on its own any more, and we are not going to pretend it is. There are free tools that copy with a checksum, and one of them lives inside an NLE nearly everyone already runs.
What those tools do not do is organise footage at ingest, produce a paper trail production will accept, run the whole thing end to end without a person standing over it, actually perform the erase reversibly, or let you collect on the proof months later when a drive comes back off the shelf.
That is the product. The price is set so the question of whether it is worth it does not need a spreadsheet.
Three tools, one run
A DIT normally reaches for three separate tools: a verified offloader, a camera-report generator, and something that makes the card safe to reuse. Cutvey Offload does all three and joins them into one unattended chain.
Three tools, not three bills. One of those three is available free elsewhere, and the value here is the join, not the sum of the licence fees it replaces.
02 Questions about the money
The awkward ones, answered here rather than in an email.
What counts as a Mac?
An activation on one machine. Solo covers one, Team two, Studio five, and the standalone licence is priced per Mac per year. A cart that runs two Macs needs two.
Is there a feature difference between the free-with-Cutvey copy and the standalone one?
No. There is one edition of the app. The route you licence it through changes nothing inside it.
Do I need a Cutvey subscription to use Cutvey Offload?
No. The standalone licence stands on its own at nineteen dollars per Mac per year. You do need a Cutvey account to download and activate the app, and a free trial gets you one.
What happens if I already pay for Cutvey and then add more Macs than my plan covers?
Your plan covers one, two or five Macs on Solo, Team and Studio. Beyond that you can either move up a plan or licence the extra Macs standalone, whichever is cheaper for the size of your cart.
Is there a Windows or Intel version I could licence instead?
No, and there will not be. Cutvey Offload is an Apple Silicon Mac app, on macOS 14 or later. That is a decision about where the app can be fast and correct, not an oversight. The download page spells out the requirements.
What does the free trial actually give me?
A Cutvey account, which is what the download and activation are tied to. Start it, sign in, and take the app onto a real card before you decide anything.
Take it onto a real card first.
Every claim on this site is about how the app behaves when something goes wrong. The only way to find out whether that matters to you is to run it on a shoot day.