Start Uploading Assets
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You can upload to Shade from the browser, phone, desktop app, file explorer, plane, Samsung Smart Fridge - you get the idea.
This is as simple as drag and drop. That’s it. If you are feeling fancy you can hit the upload button on the top right.
Also just as easy - just drag and drop or hit the button on the top right.
Since Shade can act like a mounted drive on your desktop, you can treat it as such. Anything you upload to a mounted drive will be automatically indexed on the app.
When a file is uploaded to Shade, you will be able to view the upload status in the status menu located in the bottom left. Popping open this menu will reveal the job state your asset is currently in which includes:
Upload names, sizes, locations, and timestamps per drive
Ability to stop and start uploads and navigate to uploaded files
Names, statuses, and timestamps of downloads
Whether these were Shade-generated proxies
Basic Jobs, including file syncing, updating metadata, and preview/proxy generation
AI Jobs, including visual and audio indexing and custom metadata generation
Additional Jobs, including color palette, facial recognition, and transcription
Status of sync with your mounted drives
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