Looking for a better video editing workflow? Here’s how we moved 18TB of footage last month without touching a single external hard drive. If you're tired of slow copy times, missing project files, and physically delivering drives to your editor, this post-production workflow is for you. We built a hybrid cloud system that gives us speed, security, and peace of mind. Here’s the breakdown: Ingest with Proxies: All raw media goes through Adobe Media Encoder. It creates a primary workable file for our server and a lightweight proxy file so the editor can start working immediately without waiting. The Central Hub: Our media server is a Synology SA 6400, a NAS that can hold up to two petabytes of footage. Cloud Sync to Dropbox: We use a service called Cloud Sync on the Synology to create a bi-directional link to Dropbox. Seamless Collaboration: Editors download the proxies from Dropbox to begin work. Once they export the final, full-resolution files, they upload them to Dr...