SMART IMPORT + PHOTOBOT
From a stack of cards to a Lightroom catalog ready for your edit. Smart Import copies and checks the media from every selected card. Choose PhotoBot to prepare the Lightroom catalog, adjust exposure and white balance, and build Standard and Smart Previews before you open it.
Video gets a head start, too. VideoBot can turn wedding and event footage into a first edit you can review and make your own.
Smart Import, PhotoBot and VideoBot are available now.
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY WORKFLOW
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.
Smart Import copies and checks the whole shoot. Choose PhotoBot to prepare a Lightroom catalog and automatically adjust exposure and white balance. Video footage can continue into VideoBot.
SATURDAY NIGHT
Every card goes in together
Connect the card readers, choose where the shoot should live and press Start once.
The complete shoot comes home
Photos, RAW files, video and audio are copied, organised and checked—without babysitting each card.
Photos ready for Lightroom
PhotoBot brings the photos into a Lightroom Classic catalog, ready for the next step.
Give the photos a first look
Use your chosen preset. PhotoBot can automatically adjust exposure and white balance.
Get ready to review
If selected, PhotoBot builds Standard and Smart Previews before you open Lightroom. Browse smoothly and spend less time waiting as you edit.
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.
Wake up to work already done
Open your Lightroom catalog with both preview types ready if selected, 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.
THREE PRODUCTS · ONE WORKFLOW
Smart Import brings the shoot together. PhotoBot prepares your photos for Lightroom. VideoBot gives your video edit a head start. Choose what your shoot needs.
EVERY FILE FROM EVERY CARD
Connect several cards and start once. Smart Import copies photos, video, audio and related files into one organised shoot, then checks what arrived. Choose PhotoBot or VideoBot to keep the photo or video work moving automatically.
AUTOMATIC PHOTO ADJUSTMENTS
Let PhotoBot take care of the first pass. It automatically adjusts exposure and white balance, giving you a more even starting point when you open Lightroom Classic.
AI WEDDING VIDEO EDITING
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.
PHOTOS & VIDEO · CONTINUE AFTER IMPORT
After Smart Import gathers your cards, PhotoBot can prepare the photos for Lightroom and VideoBot can make a first video edit. You make the final creative decisions.
Start once and Smart Import finds the complete shoot, copies it safely to your hard drive and organises it for you.
Choose PhotoBot to prepare the Lightroom catalog and automatically adjust exposure and white balance before you begin your edit.
VideoBot builds chapters, classifies events, designs the Highlight Story and automatically edits long-form videos, with editable timelines for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
Built by a wedding photographer and videographer who got tired of losing nights to repetitive work.
BUILT FROM REAL INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
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.
Read the Hootio storyREADY WHEN THE NEXT CARD IS
