Export 4K without downloading originals

Most cloud editing tools make you pull the originals back to a local disk before a full resolution export. On a 4K project with 200 clips that can be well over a terabyte of re-download and a day or more of bandwidth, and you need the free disk space to hold it all before the render even starts. If your drive is already full, which is usually why the footage went to the cloud in the first place, you are stuck.

The export does not actually need every file on disk. It needs the parts of the clips your timeline uses, read in the order the render touches them. Downloading the whole camera card to export a three minute cut is wasted time and wasted space.

Sanbila streams the originals at export instead of downloading them. It mounts a virtual drive that your NLE reads as a local drive with real seeking. Smart Relink reads your timeline, from an FCPXML, Premiere XML, EDL or AAF, and exposes only the clips that are actually used, so a 200 clip project streams the handful on the cut, not the whole shoot. Files arrive in 4 MB blocks on demand, with read-ahead and a local cache, so the NLE decodes as it goes rather than waiting for a full file.

In Premiere the Sanbila panel uses the native proxy attach, so you leave Use Proxies unchecked and Premiere renders from the full resolution original streamed from the cloud. In DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut and Avid, Smart Relink switches the clips used in your timeline back to those streamed originals for the render. Either way the export comes out at full 4K, 6K or 8K, and not a byte of the camera originals has to live on your SSD. The cloud has no egress fee, so streaming the originals at export, even twice, costs nothing extra.