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Real Estate Company Consolidating Dropbox and Google Drive
Company Situation
This company operates in the real estate sector, producing large volumes of video content to showcase properties across various neighborhoods. Their video editing team consists of six editors located overseas, working remotely on high-resolution footage ranging from 4K up to 8K. Managing vast amounts of media—over 120 terabytes stored across multiple platforms—is critical to their workflow, especially given the volume and resolution of their video assets.
Existing Workflow
Currently, the company relies on a combination of Dropbox, Google Drive, and their own Network Attached Storage (NAS) to store and share media files. Editors must download entire video files to preview and work on them, which is time-consuming due to limited internet speeds on the remote team’s end. They have attempted proxy workflows and used tools like Kyno to preview footage remotely, but these solutions still require significant bandwidth and manual intervention.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
Manual downloading of large files slows down the editing process and wastes valuable time.
Internet limitations in the editors’ location create bottlenecks for file transfer and review.
The current cloud storage solutions lack efficient preview capabilities, requiring full downloads before viewing.
Managing and searching through large libraries (120+ terabytes) is cumbersome without effective tagging or metadata tools.
Proxy workflows add complexity and require additional manual export steps, hindering efficiency.
Notifications about storage limits on Google Drive indicate scaling challenges and potential cost inefficiencies.
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade offers a cloud-based media management platform designed to streamline high-resolution video workflows. It enables the company’s editors to stream footage directly without downloading entire files, functioning like a mounted hard drive that integrates seamlessly with local editing software. This reduces the need for proxy workflows and manual file exports. Shade supports video previews for formats including 4K and 6K footage, with strong proxy generation for smooth playback. The platform also simplifies collaboration by allowing easy sharing, commenting, and uploading within the same interface. Tagging and metadata features facilitate fast, intuitive searches across large media libraries, enhancing organization and retrieval of specific content like neighborhood footage. Ultimately, Shade replaces the patchwork of storage solutions with a unified, smarter, and faster system tailored for remote, high-resolution video production.
Benefits
- Streamlined remote editing with cloud-mounted drives that enable streaming playback of 4K+ footage without full downloads.
- Eliminates proxy workflow complexities, reducing manual export/import steps.
- Centralized platform combining storage, preview, collaboration, and metadata management.
- Enhanced search capabilities with AI-assisted and manual tagging options for faster media discovery.
- Scalable storage solution that addresses current overuse and inefficiencies of existing cloud drives.
- Improved team productivity and faster turnaround times for video production and quality control.
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