Video production team collaboration

A typical short-form commercial involves a DIT, an editor, an assistant editor, a colourist, a VFX artist, and a producer. Each one uses a different drive or cloud service, and the handoff chain breaks at least twice per project: a wrong version gets cut, a master goes missing, or someone waits a day for an upload that stalled.

The usual fixes all have a catch. A shared NAS or Nexis keeps everyone in one place, but only inside the building and behind a licence. Consumer cloud sync copies the whole folder to every machine, so a 2 TB shoot means 2 TB per laptop. Shipping drives by courier is slow and loses a day to every revision round.

And none of these give you real control over who can do what. The assistant can delete a master by accident, the producer ends up with edit access they never needed, and there is no single, current source of truth that the whole team trusts.

Create one Sanbila project, upload the rushes once, and every role gets exactly the access it needs. The DIT uploads and ingests, the editor cuts with proxies, the colourist conforms via FCPXML, the VFX artist pulls specific clips, and the producer reviews. Nobody needs a Nexis, and nobody ships drives.

Access is role-based: Owner, Editor and Viewer. Only Owners add members or change roles, Owners and Editors import, delete and export, and Viewers stay read-only, so the producer can watch without the risk of deleting a master. Each person picks proxy or stream per clip on their own machine, so the colourist streams the originals to grade while the editor stays on light proxies offline, on the same project, with no conflict.

There is no realtime push, by design: a new upload or a replaced master shows up for everyone the next time they reload the project, so each person works on a stable view instead of chasing live edits. Studio covers small teams of up to 3 per project, Enterprise scales to 25 for a full multi-discipline pipeline.