How to edit Premiere Pro projects from the cloud (plugin workflow)

Premiere Pro has native proxy support, but wiring it to cloud storage by hand is fiddly: you download clips, make proxies, attach them, and fight the odd stuck resolution at export. The Sanbila panel does that plumbing for you. Here is the full workflow, from footage in the cloud to a full quality export, with no manual relink.

What you need

• The Sanbila desktop app, which stores your originals in the cloud and handles proxies and streaming.
• The Sanbila panel for Premiere Pro, installed from Adobe Exchange. Premiere 2025 (version 25.6) or newer.
• One account, signed in on both. The panel and the desktop app pair on your machine.

How the panel and the desktop app work together

The panel inside Premiere is the remote control; the desktop app does the heavy lifting. They talk over a local link on your own machine, so the panel can import clips, attach proxies, and relink without you leaving Premiere. On its own, the panel imports cloud proxies as clips, but mounting a drive, streaming, and native proxy attach come from the desktop app, so run both for the full workflow.

Step 1: get your footage into the cloud

In the desktop app, add the originals once. Three ways:

• Scan a card or an external SSD and pick the clips to upload.
• Drag and drop files straight into the app.
• Paste a Google Drive, WeTransfer or SwissTransfer link and let Sanbila pull the files server side, with nothing landing on your SSD first.

Each file is hashed and uploaded to cloud storage, with a backup copy kept for safety.

Step 2: choose proxy or stream, per clip

For each clip you decide how Premiere should see it. Generate a light proxy on the Sanbila cloud, usually 720p H.264 for Premiere, so your machine never decodes the 6K original to cut. Or stream the original on demand through a local drive, with nothing downloaded, when you want to check a shot in full resolution. You can mix both in one project.

Step 3: import into Premiere from the panel

Open the Sanbila panel in Premiere (Window, Extensions, Sanbila). Pick your project and import the clips. The panel brings them in at full 4K or 6K and attaches each local proxy to its clip using Premiere native proxy feature, then refreshes the media so no stale low resolution conform is left stuck on a clip with the same name.

Step 4: cut light

Turn on Toggle Proxies in the Premiere program monitor to play the light proxies. Playback is smooth on a laptop because Premiere is reading 720p, not the 6K original. Everything else, trims, effects, multicam, behaves normally, because each clip still knows its real full resolution source.

Step 5: export full quality, no relink

At export, leave Use Proxies unchecked (it is off by default) and Premiere renders from the full resolution source, not the proxy. Because the panel attached proxies natively rather than swapping files by hand, there is no relink step and no stuck proxy resolution. If a clip is in stream mode, the desktop app serves its original from the cloud during the export.

Plugin alone vs plugin plus desktop app

Honest limits so you know what to expect. The panel on its own, without the desktop app running, imports your cloud proxies as regular clips, which is enough to cut, but it does not mount a drive or stream originals, and it cannot attach proxies natively. Run the desktop app alongside it and you unlock streaming, the virtual drive, native proxy attach, and Smart Relink for export. For the workflow above, keep both open.