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NOW WITH LIGHTROOM CONNECT

Photos in Lightroom.
Video edits ready.
Time to create.

The photo workflow keeps going after import. Smart Import brings your shoot home, organised and backed up. With Lightroom Connect enabled, it creates your Lightroom Catalog, loads your selected preset, then builds Standard and Smart Previews.

VideoBot is for wedding & event videographers. One click builds chapters, classifies events, designs the Highlight Story and automatically edits long-form videos, with editable timelines for Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

Choose your next step: Lightroom Connect for photos, VideoBot for video, or both for a mixed shoot.

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LIGHTROOM CONNECT

Smart Import · Photo workflow

Ready to edit

  1. 01 · Photo import complete

    1,248 photos copied into the shoot folder.

  2. 02 · Lightroom Catalog created

    Saved in this date folder’s Lightroom Catalog subfolder, with all photos in the date folder added to the catalog.

  3. 03 · Selected preset applied

    Your chosen import preset is applied to every photo in the catalog before previews are built.

  4. 04 · Previews built in Lightroom

    Standard and Smart Previews are built automatically for all photos after the preset is applied.

    Standard Previews
    1,248 / 1,248
    Smart Previews
    1,248 / 1,248
Illustrative workflow with a preset selected and example counts. Choose your import preset in Settings, then enable Create catalog and Build previews. None keeps the default develop settings. Previews require Lightroom Classic 15+ and the Hootio Previews plugin.

VIDEO NEXT · IF ENABLED

VideoBot continues with your footage and prepares editable timelines for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

A REAL SHOOT-NIGHT EXAMPLE

Plug in every card. Press once. Go to bed.

You have just finished a full wedding day with several cameras and a stack of cards. Instead of opening every card, finding its folders, opening the right destination and dragging files across one card at a time, connect all your card readers to the computer and open Smart Import.

One click takes the night shift.

Hootio gathers and organises the whole shoot. With Lightroom Connect enabled, photo import is followed by Catalog creation, your selected preset and Standard and Smart Preview generation. Video footage can also continue into VideoBot.

SATURDAY NIGHT

You sleep. Hootio keeps going.

One overnight run
  1. 10:42 PM

    Every card goes in together

    Connect the card readers, choose where the shoot should live and press Start once.

  2. 10:43 PM

    The complete shoot comes home

    Photos, RAW files, video and audio are copied, organised and checked—without babysitting each card.

  3. CATALOG

    Photo import complete. Create the catalogs.

    Lightroom Connect creates a Lightroom Catalog for each new photo date folder, keeping the imported photos in place.

  4. PRESET

    Load your selected preset

    Your import preset is applied to the photos in the new catalog before previews are built. Choose None to keep default develop settings.

  5. PREVIEWS

    Build Standard and Smart Previews

    Lightroom Classic generates both preview types with those settings applied, ready for you to review and edit.

  6. VIDEO NEXT

    The video work gets a head start

    Hootio can prepare smooth editing copies, line up every camera, shape a first Highlight Story and build a first cut of the long video.

  7. 7:18 AM

    Wake up to work already done

    Open your photo catalogs with both preview types prepared, plus a first video edit if enabled. Review, refine and make the creative choices your own.

THE PAYOFF

Less file handling. More time for the work people hired you to create.

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TWO PRODUCTS · ONE WORKFLOW

The right help for photos, video or both.

Smart Import brings the whole shoot home. Lightroom Connect continues with photo catalogs, your selected preset and previews; VideoBot continues with video editing. Choose the workflow your shoot needs.

FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS & VIDEOGRAPHERS

Hootio Smart Import

Connect your cards and Smart Import scans every folder, then copies all files—including photos, RAW files, video, audio and related files—to your hard drive. Files tucked away in different folders won’t be accidentally missed. After photo import completes, Lightroom Connect creates catalogs for new photo date folders, applies your selected preset, then builds Standard and Smart Previews when enabled.

  • Photos & RAW
  • Video & audio
  • Lightroom Catalogs & presets
  • Standard & Smart Previews
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FOR VIDEOGRAPHERS

Hootio VideoBot

Let VideoBot divide the wedding day into chapters, classify key events, intelligently choose the primary camera angle for each event type, design your Highlight Story and automatically edit your long-form videos. One click handles the full workflow and can generate editable timelines for Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

  • Automatic chapters
  • Event classification
  • Highlight Story design
  • Long-form auto editing
Explore VideoBot

PHOTOS & VIDEO · CONTINUE AFTER IMPORT

One start action can carry the job forward.

After import, Lightroom Connect creates your photo catalogs, applies your selected preset and builds previews. For video, connect VideoBot to prepare editable timelines. You stay in control of every final decision.

01

Connect every card

Start once and Smart Import finds the complete shoot, copies it safely to your hard drive and organises it for you.

02

Prepare photos in Lightroom

Enable Lightroom Connect. Once photo import finishes, Hootio creates the new catalogs and applies your selected preset, then Lightroom Classic builds Standard and Smart Previews.

03

Open a real head start

VideoBot builds chapters, classifies events, designs the Highlight Story and automatically edits long-form videos, with editable timelines for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

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Built by a wedding photographer and videographer who got tired of losing nights to repetitive work.

BUILT FROM REAL INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

It’s not just software. It’s personal.

Hootio was created by Brendan, an Australian wedding photographer, videographer and editor with more than 12 years in the industry.

The goal is simple: give working creatives back the hours spent on sorting, checking and first-pass technical decisions—without replacing the judgement that makes the work theirs.

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READY WHEN THE NEXT CARD IS

From the next card to the first edit, let Hootio carry the repeatable work.

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