GATE copies a camera card to every drive, reads each copy back off the drive, and tells you in one sentence whether you can format. It transcribes the sound too, Afrikaans included, without it leaving the machine. Built on set, with a working DIT.
Ask for early accessThe offload is the part of the day that cannot go wrong. GATE does it, checks it, and keeps the record.
The card is read once and written to every destination. Then each copy is read back off the drive and hash-matched. A copy that was never checked never counts.
Copies are written and read back on every destination in parallel, not one drive after another.
Sound takes become timed transcripts and subtitles on the DIT's own computer, Afrikaans included. Only when the production agrees, and nothing leaves the machine.
Two folders on one RAID are one copy. GATE counts separate drives before it will say “safe to format”.
Gaps in clip and still numbering are flagged before the card goes back to camera, with a spot check you clear. GATE never guesses why a file is gone.
Sony, DJI, Insta360, Sound Devices and stills bodies are recognised per file, and each clip is traced to the body that shot it, alongside its timecode.
A verified card becomes a Resolve render job, already filled in: bin, timeline, show LUT and burn-in. Resolve renders; GATE has checked everything first.
Every destination gets an ASC MHL for each card, the hash list format studios and streamers ask for at delivery. Lists GATE did not write are read too.
GATE reads the hash lists already on a card, including those other offload tools write, and checks them file by file, even after a rename.
Hand GATE a drive and the reports that came with it. It lists what is there, what the reports promise but is missing, and what is on the drive that nobody listed. A file that was moved or renamed is pointed at where it is now.
Takes the recorder listed against takes on the card, in both directions, with the mixer's notes alongside, so a note about a dead boom reaches the edit.
The Day's Report puts every card in one place: thumbnails, clip facts, which drives hold each clip, scene and take, and the mixer's notes, with a one-page summary for the producer. It prints.
A provenance file names every clip as it came off the card: the camera, the timecode, its colour, the drives it is safe on and the slate it belongs to. Footage sent on with it stays traceable, so a shot made from it later, AI-generated ones included, can name its original.
Free space on every drive is checked before a byte is copied. A job that will not fit is said up front, not three hours in.
Every file, both hashes, every drive and every finding is written down. Findings can be marked as reviewed. They are never deleted.
Measured on real shoots with a working DIT, on macOS.
GATE is being built with a small group of DITs and data wranglers. Tell us what you shoot and we will be in touch when there is a place for you.