Magic Ingest

Fast, background photo & video ingest from memory cards — built for photographers who want to get shooting, not waiting.

Features

• Instant card detection — Automatically finds SD cards, CFexpress, and USB drives
• Date filtering — Pick which shoot days to import (scanned in under a second)
• Star rating filter — Import only rated images (via EXIF metadata)
• Background ingest — Runs independently of Raycast. Press Escape and keep working.
• Multiple concurrent jobs — Run up to 3 ingests in parallel; view and manage them from the Ingest Status screen
• SHA-256 verification — Optional checksum verification for every copied file
• Smart collision handling — Resolves filename conflicts across multiple cards
• File renaming — Prefix files with your folder name for easy organization
• Photo Mechanic integration — Opens your destination folder in PM6 when done
• Auto-eject — Safely ejects cards after ingest completes
• Duplicate skipping — Won't re-copy files already in the destination; hash-verifies on filename collision so reformatted-card filename resets don't silently overwrite
• Sidecar-aware — XMP sidecars follow their parent media files

Requirements

• macOS (uses native diskutil, rsync, and notification APIs)
• ExifTool — Required for star rating filtering. Install via Homebrew:

  brew install exiftool
  

  If you don't use star rating filtering, ExifTool is not needed.

Supported Formats

Images: CR2, CR3, ARW, NEF, DNG, JPG, JPEG, HEIC Video: MP4, MOV, MXF Sidecars: XMP

Commands

Command	Description
Magic Ingest	Open the ingest form — select cards, dates, and options
Ingest Status	View all running and recently-finished ingest jobs; start new ingests

How It Works

1. Insert your memory card
2. Open Magic Ingest from Raycast
3. Select source card(s), destination, and date range
4. Hit submit — ingest runs in the background
5. Start another ingest immediately, or check progress via Ingest Status
6. Get a notification when done