Groups for a team, a shoot, a session
Put cameras in a group, pause it, resume it, or say "use only this group" to switch lineups without unpairing anything. Ungrouped cameras keep working on their own.
Every GoPro in the room,
synced before anyone leaves.
One laptop, any number of cameras. Dropz finds GoPro cameras over Bluetooth, pairs them once, and pulls every new clip over Wi-Fi to your computer. No cables, no card readers, no missed files.
Latest release v0.7.0, free and open source, Apache 2.0.
Cameras found, paired, and synced, new clips in the library, one lossless trim. Real app, prop footage.
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Coaches and teams
Twenty athletes, twenty cameras, one laptop at the bench. Name each camera after its owner and the footage sorts itself.
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Film crews and multi-cam shoots
Save each setup as a group. Pause it between takes, switch to the next setup with one click, and never unpair a camera.
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Fleets in the field
Research, rentals, driving schools, race days. Cameras come back, get switched on, and empty themselves while you do the paperwork.
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Switch the cameras on
Dropz sees every GoPro in Bluetooth range and pairs the ones you pick. Once. Give each a name: a player, a car, a mount.
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Keep shooting
Each camera wakes in turn, joins Wi-Fi, and hands over what is new. Downloads resume, failures retry.
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Review and cut
Clips land as plain MP4 files in your Videos folder. Preview them, trim losslessly, keep the telemetry.
Built for many cameras, not one.
See every sync at three depths
The status bar shows which camera is on the radio, file x of y, and an ETA. Each card shows one state. The Activity tab keeps per-file rows and a history with where a failed run stopped.
Nothing lost on a bad link
Transfers resume where they broke. A failed file is retried after the rest of the pass. Files already on disk are never fetched twice.
Lossless trim from the player
Set in and out points with I and O. The cut snaps to real keyframes and copies video, audio, and GPMF telemetry untouched. The original stays.
Library with previews
Thumbnails and low-res proxies for every clip, new arrivals marked, one click from a camera card to its footage.
Your files, your machine
No account, no cloud, no upload. A Go backend and an Electron app talking over gRPC on localhost. Apache 2.0, source on GitHub.
Download
- macOS
- The build is ad-hoc signed. On first launch, right-click the app and choose Open.
- Linux
chmod +x Dropz.AppImagethen run it. Needs NetworkManager and a Bluetooth LE adapter.- Cameras
- Built on the Open GoPro protocol. Validated on HERO11 Black; HERO12 and HERO13 on the bench.
- ffmpeg
- Bundled. Previews and trims work out of the box.
Older builds and release notes: all releases on GitHub.