OWC RADiO host Cirina Catania talks with Paul Matthijs, CEO of Hedge. Their solutions, Hedge (for multiple, check-sum backups), and Postlab (remote editors dream solution), are chugging away every day on our end to help us manage multiple copies of our data and communicate edits with our crew. Whether you are producing media for distribution to networks such as Netflix, managing media files for independent projects, or even just keeping your hard drives protected with organized backups, you'll want to know more about this. (For more about Postlab, see our previous interview with Isaac Terronez).

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In This Episode

00:00 - Cirina introduces Paul Matthijs, the CEO of Hedge. 02:41 - Paul talks about Hedge, both as a company and an app.09:20 - Paul explains about the ideas of checksums and duplicate detection in Hedge.16:55 - Cirina asks Paul how he got involved with Hedge.18:49 - Paul shares the best solution for storing and archiving files.21:51 - Paul talks about how Hedge and Postlab merge, and the new features of the two apps.26:55 - Paul shares how he got started in the tech world.28:36 - Cirina and Paul encourage listeners to check out Hedge.video to know more about Hedge and Postlab. If listeners have more questions, they can email Hedge at [email protected].

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Transcript

One guy works out of his corporate headquarters in Amsterdam and is speaking with us today about media management. That might sound like something that's not important, but those little teeny tiny files that travel across the globe, to the other person working with your project are very important. There is an application out there called Hedge that I've been using for many years. I wanted to update you guys because a short while ago, they announced some additional features of the app that I think you're going to find pretty amazing. We're going to talk with Paul Matthijs in just a moment. Thank you for listening. Standby. This is going to be fun!

Paul, welcome to OWC RADiO. It's so nice to have you here today. We have a lot to talk about.

Thanks.

Where are you?

I'm in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.

I was looking at some images of Amsterdam the other day, the canals are all frozen up and people are ice skating on the canals. It brings back memories of when I was a kid. It sounds just wonderful.

Well, it was a relief that everybody really needed. It was the first time in 20 years that we could actually do outdoor ice skating. Then the whole country goes mad. There's so much water over here and it'll freeze up. Yeah, it's amazing. Just what we needed. The lockdown is the second, third or fourth, I stopped counting. In general, it is in Europe and in the U.S. too, it's not a good situation at all, but we're coping. The mental strain will prove to be an issue over the coming years. Try to relax when we can, while at the same time having a normal life.

Hedge feels just at home on your Mac as it does on Windows. 100% native code, without cross-platform ballast, ensures stability and speed.

One thing I'm curious about, now that you mentioned being at home, because I'm now working from a studio that I put into my house. Even though I have a 1GB service, the internet is not as reliable as it used to be because there are so many people on it. Do you have those problems in Holland as well?

We do.