Making local media reachable
Tools that move material from external drives, local machines, or a NAS without WebDAV to a place footage.one can read.
The starting point
footage.one reads media from connected storage. Material that isn't there yet is invisible to footage.one — whether it sits on an external drive from a shoot, on the editing machine, on a camera card, or on a NAS without WebDAV. The tools on this page close exactly that gap: they move material from wherever it lives to a storage footage.one can connect to.
Tools
| Tool | Platform | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Cyberduck | macOS, Windows, free | Opens a window onto your WebDAV or S3 storage — drag and drop from the external drive into storage. The simple way for one-off transfers. |
| Mountain Duck | macOS, Windows, paid | Mounts WebDAV/S3 as a drive. You copy directly from the shoot's media in Finder/Explorer into storage, and open material from storage directly in your editing software. The everyday way. |
| WinSCP / FileZilla Pro | Windows / cross-platform | Alternatives for teams that already work with them — both speak WebDAV and S3. |
| Nextcloud Desktop Client | all platforms | Folder sync instead of manual copying, if your storage is Nextcloud-based. |
NAS without WebDAV
If your NAS has no WebDAV of its own, there are two ways forward:
- Add WebDAV to the NAS — ready-made guides exist for Synology and QNAP.
- Run a Nextcloud on the NAS — see Connecting Nextcloud as storage.
Alternatively, if neither path works for you: mount the NAS share locally on your machine and push the contents into S3 storage with Cyberduck or Mountain Duck. From there, footage.one takes over.
When it's worth it
Note: For individual files, uploading in the browser is enough. These tools are worth it once you're moving whole cards, project folders, or multiple gigabytes at once.