For VFX, post, color and audio

Mount the project. Start cutting.

Swarmfile is one shared drive for projects too big to sync. Open a 4 TB Resolve or Premiere project in seconds - in the studio, at home, or across two continents. Nothing downloads; you stream only what you scrub.

No full-file downloadsNo syncingNo drives in the mail
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Sound familiar?

Right now, every way you move a project is a workaround.

Hard drives in the mail

A 4 TB project ships by courier from LA to Vancouver. Two days gone - and the editor's already working from a stale copy.

Nightly sync that breaks

Resilio or Syncthing chews bandwidth all night, then breaks silently when a workstation reboots. Someone has to babysit it.

Every editor pays the cloud

Five editors in one room each pull the same multi-GB proxies from the cloud. Five copies, five waits, five times the bill.

Swarmfile replaces all three with one drive.

The first 4 minutes

From zero to a multi-site cut

The full path a post house walks in one afternoon, the same one we use in every demo call. Each step shows what you'd actually see on screen.

  1. Step 1
    Install

    Mount the drive in under a minute

    Run the signed Swarmfile.pkg from the dashboard - it installs the app and the streaming engine together, both starting at login. Your project appears as a normal local drive. No cloud account needed for the mount itself.

  2. Step 2
    Open

    Resolve opens the project in 30 seconds

    EP07-OnlineCut.drp is a 4.1 TB Resolve project. It appears in the drive the moment you sign in. Resolve opens it without downloading - 0 bytes on disk.

  3. Step 3
    Cut

    Scrub the timeline, stream the bytes

    Every proxy range you scrub lands in milliseconds. The parts of the file you don't watch stay in the cloud. 4.1 TB project, 168 MB on disk after a full session.

  4. Step 4
    Collaborate

    Your colorist at home joins the same project

    LISA opens the same project on her home iMac. The first read - 96 MB of headers and timeline preview - lands from the LAN cache in 12 ms. Cloud egress: 0.

Where it pays off

Three places Swarmfile pays for itself

The three conversations we have on every demo call. If one of them is yours, the rest of the page is for someone else.

Color grading on a cut that's still moving

DaVinci Resolve · Baselight
Today

Colorists pull the entire 4 TB Resolve project from a NAS or shipped drive just to grade 30 minutes of selects. If the cut is still in progress, they wait for the lock - sometimes a week - then re-grade the whole reel when the cut shifts.

With Swarmfile

Mount the project and grade as the cut evolves. The colorist only pulls the rendered preview cache plus the proxy range they're working on. Original camera files stay in the cloud. When the editor changes a cut, the colorist sees the diff in seconds and re-pulls only the affected shots - not the whole 4 TB.

A fraction of the bytes per grade pass.

VFX review without the file drop

Nuke · Houdini · After Effects
Today

Vendors receive the latest cut as a 200 GB file drop every few days. They pull it down, watch their shots, render, upload, repeat. Five days of waiting per round, and a vendor who can't see the latest cut until the producer ships it.

With Swarmfile

Vendors see only their assigned shots. The vendor's machine pulls just the camera files they need, plus a low-res proxy for context. Renders go straight back to the project's Renders/ folder - the editor sees them in the next refresh, no re-sync, no 'did you upload yet?'.

No 200 GB file drop to download.

Multicam and multi-site, no shuttle drives

Premiere · Avid · Resolve
Today

A reality show shoots in LA, gets cut in NYC, gets color in Vancouver, gets audio mix in London. Four sites, one project. Today: shuttle drives between coasts, NAS replication that drifts, or a LucidLink subscription that costs as much as the editor using it.

With Swarmfile

One drive on every workstation; the first person at each site warms it, everyone after is on the LAN. Editors scrub while offline (R26); changes sync when they reconnect. Cloud is the cold backstop, never the front door.

One drive letter, every site.
Everything else you get

Included with every plan

Encrypted, versioned, audited

Every file encrypted with your project's own key. Every change versioned with one-click rollback. A full audit trail of who touched what - your footage stays yours. Pre-release content? An opt-in end-to-end tier keeps your keys off our servers too - see how.

Try a look-dev variant, keep the timeline safe

Branch the project to test a new grade or comp without touching what everyone else is cutting. Like the result? Merge it back into main - nothing gets silently overwritten. Pipeline TD? There's a CLI for all of it.

Name a cut, revert the whole thing

Group every file that changed for a pickup or a client note into one named, atomic commit. See it in the Commits tab, and revert the whole batch if the note gets walked back.

See who's cutting what, live

A live roster shows who has each file open the moment they open it - the assistant doesn't reach for the timeline the colorist already has locked.

Scrub a proxy before you pull the master

Video files get a poster frame and a scrubbable H.264 proxy automatically - preview a cut before you commit to streaming the full-res master.

Cut on a plane

Saves return instantly, online or off. Pin a project before you take off, edit at 35,000 feet, and it syncs the moment you land.

Bring your own NAS

Already have a NAS? Turn it into a Swarmfile seed. It becomes the warm tier every editor pulls from first - your existing hardware, put to work.

In their words

Post & color teams already in the room

The studios and firms shaping Swarmfile for post, color, and remote audio collaboration.

“The first time our colorist opened the cut from her apartment in Berlin, the proxy range she scrubbed landed in under a second. We retired the LA ↔ Berlin shuttle drive the next week.”
Media & Entertainment
Head of post-productionIndependent VFX & finishing studio, LA + Berlin22 seats

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