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.

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…)

85%

Average disk savings vs editing on 4K originals

Egress fees on Cloudflare R2 — stream originals at zero cost

Parallel R2 connections on macOS (4 on Windows / Linux), 4 MB block cache

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a video editing server or a VPN for remote editing?+

No. Sanbila is cloud-first: the originals live on Cloudflare R2, the remote editor cuts on local proxies, and only the used originals stream at export through a local mount. There is no studio server to expose and no VPN to maintain.

How much bandwidth does a remote editor need?+

Very little for the edit itself. Proxies are light H.264, DNxHR or ProRes files that download once and play offline. Full-resolution originals stream only for the clips used at export, not the whole shoot.

Is remote video production secure with Sanbila?+

The local cache is stored in an encrypted SQLCipher database, every file is verified with SHA-256 on upload and download, and the originals are kept on Cloudflare R2 with an automatic Backblaze B2 backup for redundancy.

Can a team in different cities work on the same project?+

Yes, on the Studio (3 users per project) and Enterprise (25 users per project) plans. Each member gets an Owner, Editor or Viewer role, and a new upload shows up for everyone in real time.

Set up a remote edit without shipping a drive

Solo for one remote editor, Studio when the team spans cities.

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