A count that was not measured is drawn as a dash. A nought means nought, and it is the only thing that does.
MVRK Systems presents
ShuttleCheck™ Multitool
SIX TOOLS. EACH THE BEST AT ITS ONE THING.
Your team builds its vendor list and its folder structure before the show opens. Every crew, photographer and agency then delivers into the right place, correctly named and verified, from day one. No chasing files, no renaming after the fact, and your editors and social team find what they need immediately.
01 · The story first
A drive should say what is wrong
A drive should say what is wrong
before it says how much.
The job screen opens with a sentence, not a dashboard. The ratio comes second and the folder map third, because a figure you have to interpret is slower than a line you can act on.
5 files will fail an ingest.
Hall 1 camera crew owes three sessions.
On the rule
Worth a look
An ingest will refuse
Checks that could not run are listed by name. A silent skip is how a conformance tool starts lying.
When the tool itself breaks, it is drawn hatched in red and never mixed in with problems in your media.
Copy the handover puts that sentence and the counts on the clipboard as plain text, for the email or the chat the production already runs on. The report itself keeps its shape: four groups, in order, always shown.
02 · Six tools, six instruments
Each tool makes one promise,
Each tool makes one promise,
and draws the thing that proves it.
Every tool owns a visual of its own. Not a shared console with different text in it: the delivery is roads, the convention is a filename taken apart, the roll call is a board, the seal is a stamp. You can tell which tool you are in from across the room.
Roll call comes before Rename.
A wrong name is fixable. A card reformatted because nobody noticed a reel was never copied is not. Reconcile what arrived before you start changing what it is called.
Six instruments, one screen.
The job screen carries a small version of each tool's own instrument, under the story and the ratio, so the state of every tool is one glance rather than six clicks.
03 · Before the show
The folder structure exists
The folder structure exists
before the first camera does.
On an expo the running order is structured data that exists weeks ahead. Joined against recording wall-clock it yields the session, the stage, the speaker and the sponsor on its own: no model, no network, no per-file cost. That is the thing a general-purpose renamer cannot do, and it is why the work moves to the week before the show.
Name the suppliers
Every crew, photographer and agency on the job, what each of them owes, and the road their work arrives by.
Lay the drive out
The roll call board writes the folder tree before anything is shot: a row per session per stage per day, waiting to be filled.
Everyone delivers into it
Each supplier is handed their own rules and nothing else from the job. Their files land in the right place, named correctly.
Read what is short
The board lights what arrived and stripes what is due and missing. That is the list you take into the production meeting.
04 · Against the renamers
Everything a bulk renamer does,
Everything a bulk renamer does,
and four things none of them can.
A bulk renamer is a commodity. What it cannot have is the convention, the camera report and the running order sitting underneath it, which is what turns a find-and-replace into something you can let near a job.
| Capability | What ShuttleCheck does |
|---|---|
| Find and replace | Plain text, or a regular expression with groups ($1) and case changes in the replacement (\U, \L). Match case, first match only. |
| Case | UPPER, lower, Title, Sentence, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case. |
| Insert and remove | At the start, the end or a position, with tags for {parent}, {date}, {name}, {n}. Remove given characters, or a range counted from either end. |
| Numbering | Start, step, digits, joiner, position. Restarts per folder if asked, in natural order, so clip2 comes before clip10. |
| Clean-up | Spaces to a separator, accents, characters drives refuse, repeated separators, trimmed ends. |
| Scope and presets | Files, folders or both; include and exclude patterns; or exactly the files the rule could not fix. Four presets built in, your own saved on the machine. |
| The convention's spellings | A whole field written another way becomes the convention's spelling: Main Stage becomes MAIN, cam1 becomes CAM01. Only the spellings the convention actually lists. |
| Held to the rule | Every new name says whether it is on the rule and, if not, which field is wrong. The footer counts names on the rule now, and after. |
| Never camera negative | Recorder originals and protected paths are drawn locked. No step reaches them, and neither does a folder that holds them. |
| Never half a rename | One collision, or one name a drive would refuse, blocks the whole plan. Every run goes through the journal and is undone in one press. |
By the rule and by hand hand off to each other. The rule fixes what it can derive; "fix the other five by hand" opens the hand renamer with exactly those five files in scope.
05 · Free, and what a licence buys
Five of the six tools are free,
Five of the six tools are free,
permanently, with no account.
The split is not by what is valuable. It is by what an operation does. Everything that reads, and the two things that write for somebody else's benefit rather than yours, are free. What a licence buys is the labour.
ShuttleCheck™
Free, permanently
No account, no connection, no trial clock. Install it on as many machines as you like, including commercially.
- Checking. Point it at a folder and read what would fail an ingest. It cannot write; that is what makes it something a stranger will run on a live job.
- The convention. Recovered from a job you already delivered, then held against any other folder.
- The roll call. What was declared against what arrived, and which supplier owes the difference.
- Sealing. A checksum per file in ASC MHL, the rule beside it, and a chain of custody that extends rather than overwrites.
- Vendor packs. Each supplier's own rules, cut from the one convention.
- Receiving footage from a DailiesDrop™ unit, verified on arrival.
Sealing and packs write, and are still free. A manifest only works if the far end can verify it for nothing, and a pack is the one thing this product does that reaches somebody who is not the customer.
ShuttleCheck™ Pro
Renaming, and undo
One tool, and the journal that takes it back. Licensed per machine: one licence file, one machine, no seat counting.
- Conform. Hold a tree to the convention, with a plan you read before anything moves.
- Revert. Undo a whole run from the journal in one press.
- €180 a year per machine
- €49 for 30 days per machine, for one job
Before VAT. No automatic renewal, and fourteen days of grace after expiry; a renewal that is late should not stop a shoot. Pro comes with a DailiesDrop™ subscription for the whole organisation. Get a licence · Terms of sale.
Not open source: free to install and use, with no right to redistribute or modify. Checking codecs, resolution and frame rate needs ffmpeg on your machine; without it the report says those were skipped rather than passed, because a skipped check reported as passed is how a conformance tool starts lying.
06 · Where to start
Point it at last season's work.
The most useful first thing anyone does with it is run it against a job that is already finished and read what comes back. Nothing is renamed, nothing leaves the machine, and there is no account; so there is nothing to weigh up before trying it on real material.
Been sent a drive?
mvrk.systems/verify
Open the page, choose the folder, get the arrival and naming report. Your files are read in your own browser and never leave your machine.
Open the checker →
Run the window
ShuttleCheck™ 0.4.3 · Windows and macOS
The whole multitool on your own machine: six tools, six instruments, and no account. Point it at a drive and it reads; nothing is written until you approve a plan.
Not signed yet, so the first launch takes one extra step: how to open it · checksums
Orpip install shuttlecheck, then shuttlecheck ui
Comes with the unit
DailiesDrop™ subscription
Pro is included for the whole organisation on a DailiesDrop™ subscription. Same engine as the free checker, so there is no second tool to learn.
See the tiers →0 to 6 select a tool, C checks again, O chooses a drive. Dark and only dark, so the window never arrives looking like a different tool on a machine set to light. Reduced motion stops every moving part, and forced colours are supported throughout.
The same engine runs from a terminal, which is what you want when the job is a scheduled task on a machine room box rather than somebody at a desk. Exit codes are the point: 0 conforms, 1 findings, 2 could not run.
Before your next show
Build the vendor list while the agenda is still a spreadsheet.
That is the week the work actually gets cheap. Send us the running order and the supplier list from a show you have already run, and we will write the convention with you and hand it back as a pack per vendor.