Cloud storage for Avid Media Composer

MXF originals in the cloud, DNxHR proxies on SSD, no Nexis shared storage required.

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Avid Nexis costs a fortune

Avid Nexis shared storage starts in the five figures, ties you to specific hardware, and carries a yearly maintenance contract on top. For a small post house or a remote team, that capital cost is brutal, and it still has to live in one building: a remote assistant cannot touch it without a VPN and a slow copy. Yet you still need somewhere reliable to keep 20 TB or more of MXF rushes, with a backup, because broadcast delivery and legal archiving both demand it.

The rushes do not have to sit on fast shared storage the whole project, though. They need to be safely archived, reachable from anywhere, and streamed into Avid only when you actually conform.

Cloud storage at a fraction of the price

Sanbila Enterprise gives you 25 TB of cloud storage for $599 a month in the cloud, with no egress fees and an automatic redundant backup copy. Your MXF originals live in the cloud; you cut on light DNxHR LB proxies that Sanbila writes into the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1/ structure Media Composer auto-discovers, and at conform Smart Relink switches the timeline clips to the originals streamed from the cloud over a local mount. There is no Nexis to buy, no maintenance window, and no building you have to be in: a remote assistant logs in and sees the same MXF. Every file is checksummed with a checksum at upload and re-verified on download, and the backup copy means a dropped drive or a region outage never costs you a master.

Cloud primary, redundant backup

Every MXF lives in the cloud with an automatic second copy on a redundant backup copy, so a dropped drive never costs a master.

No egress fees

Stream or re-download the originals as often as a conform needs, with no per-GB charge, unlike most cloud buckets.

Proxies Avid auto-discovers

DNxHR LB proxies are written into the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1/ structure Media Composer links through AMA, so editorial is light.

Reachable from anywhere

A remote assistant logs in and sees the same 25 TB workspace, no VPN tunnel to a Nexis in one building.

Sanbila by the numbers

Real specs from the live Sanbila product, not marketing claims.

NLEs supported (Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Avid)

Proxy presets: from 540p H.264 to 1080p DNxHR LB

File formats supported (MP4, MOV, MXF, R3D, BRAW, WAV…)

up to 85%

Less disk space with proxies vs editing on the full-resolution originals

Zero egress fees: stream originals at no extra cost

Parallel cloud connections on macOS (4 on Windows / Linux), 4 MB block cache

Frequently asked questions

How does the cost compare to an Avid Nexis?+

A Nexis starts in the five figures plus yearly maintenance and specific hardware. Sanbila Enterprise is 25 TB in the cloud for $599 a month with no egress fees and an automatic backup copy, and nothing to maintain.

Can a remote assistant reach the MXF without a VPN?+

Yes. The MXF lives in the cloud, so anyone on the project logs in and sees the same workspace. There is no Nexis in one building to tunnel into.

Does editorial still run on fast local media?+

Yes. You cut on light DNxHR LB proxies that Sanbila writes into the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1/ structure Media Composer auto-discovers, so playback is local and fast. The MXF streams back only at conform.

What protects the originals from loss?+

Each MXF is checksummed with a checksum at upload and re-verified on download, and the cloud keeps an automatic redundant backup copy, so a region outage or a bad drive never costs you a master.

Replace Nexis with cloud storage

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