Remote video editing workflow
Edit from anywhere without a courier, a VPN, or a stack of shipped drives.
Remote editing usually means shipping drives
When the editor is in another city, footage moves by courier or a slow upload to a generic cloud, then back again for revisions. A studio NAS only helps people in the building, and pulling full files over a home connection is painfully slow when all you need is to start cutting.
Cut offline anywhere, stream the originals on demand
Sanbila keeps the originals in the cloud, so a remote editor pulls light proxies and cuts offline on a laptop, no matter the connection. At export, Smart Relink streams only the used originals at full resolution, so a finished delivery never required shipping a single drive. Team members in different cities share the same project.
No shipped drives
Footage lives in the cloud; the editor pulls proxies instead of waiting on a courier.
Offline cutting
Proxies are local, so the edit is smooth even on a weak connection.
Stream at export
Smart Relink pulls only the used originals at full quality, not the whole shoot.
Share across cities
Studio and Enterprise plans give a distributed team one shared project.
Sanbila by the numbers
Real specs from the live Sanbila product, not marketing claims.
Frequently asked questions
How is Sanbila different from the proxy generator built into my NLE?+
Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and Avid all generate proxies locally, but they keep the original full-resolution files on the same SSD — so the disk fills up twice. Sanbila stores the originals in the cloud (Cloudflare R2) and keeps only the lightweight proxies on your machine. At export, Smart Relink streams the originals back via a local WebDAV mount, so you finish at full quality without ever downloading the source files.
Does Sanbila work offline?+
Yes for editing — once a proxy is cached on your SSD, you can cut, trim, color and arrange your timeline without an internet connection. You only need network access for the initial import (uploading originals to the cloud) and for the final export (streaming originals back via WebDAV).
How much cloud storage does the free plan include?+
The free plan includes 5 GB of cloud storage and one project, with no credit card required. Paid plans start at $49 per month for 2 TB and 50 projects, going up to 25 TB on the Enterprise plan with overage billing for teams that need more.
What upload speed do I need to use Sanbila?+
Any broadband connection works for the initial upload — Sanbila chunks files into 50 MB parts and uploads in parallel, so a typical 100 Mbps fiber line uploads 1 hour of 4K H.264 footage in about 6 minutes. After upload, day-to-day editing happens on local proxies, so your connection speed only matters again at export time when originals are streamed.
Which video formats does Sanbila support?+
Sanbila handles 22+ formats out of the box: MP4, MOV, MXF, R3D (RED RAW), BRAW (Blackmagic RAW), ARRI proxies, ProRes, DNxHR, DNxHD, H.264, H.265, plus WAV and AAC for audio. Both 4K and 8K sources are supported up to 200 GB per single file (URL imports have no size limit).
Set up a remote edit without shipping a drive
Solo for one remote editor, Studio when the team spans cities.
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