Dropping footage in

Drag video files or a folder onto B/side and A/Side ingests them — light copies to cut with, every sound track named, your files left where they are.

Drag a video, a few, or a whole folder onto B/side: off a camera, a phone, or a screen recording. A/Side — the part of B/side that runs on your computer — finds them where they are, makes light copies to cut with and sends those up. Clips appear in the bin as each one is ready, usually within seconds of a short file.

Your files never move. Nothing is copied off your disk and the originals are not uploaded: exports are made from them, on your computer, by A/Side.

Where A/Side comes from

In the B/side app for Mac or Windows, A/Side is built in and starts by itself when you open a project. In a browser it is a separate download; B/side offers it the first time you need it.

Your drop, and somebody else's

A drop you make comes straight in. When somebody else on the project drops footage, A/Side on the computer that has those files asks there first, in A/Side's own panel, before it reads anything — nobody can make your computer read your drive from somewhere else.

Every sound track, named

A recording with several sound tracks comes in with all of them, each on its own track and named the way the file names it. An OBS recording with Desktop, Mic and Discord tracks arrives as A1 Desktop, A2 Mic and A3 Discord, and the first cut you make carries all of them.

A loose file and a folder

Drop a folder and A/Side reads the whole folder. Drop files and it reads just those files — never the folder they sit in, so dropping one recording from your Desktop does not ingest your Desktop.

Not footage

An Avid project folder, a bin, an AAF, a Premiere project or a dailies ALE is a different drop: B/side opens it and rebuilds the cuts (see Bringing in a cut from Avid and Bringing in a whole Avid project).