Strada is pitching a simple idea: keep raw media on your own drives, but make it reachable like a cloud app. Instead of uploading terabytes of camera originals, Strada’s peer-to-peer “Agent” turns any folder on a Mac or PC into a remotely accessible library, so collaborators can review, share, and start cutting without paying ongoing storage rent or dealing with cloud egress. They even estimate cloud storage can cost around 40x more per GB than a drive you already own. https://strada.tech/
The demo shows why this matters for video: a ProRes 4K file stored on an OWC ThunderBay in Los Angeles is played back from a laptop in Vegas with responsive scrubbing, instant jumps across the timeline, and even 8x playback. The drive activity light becomes the proof point—pause and it stops, play and it spins up—because the source really is staying on that local RAID here.
Under the hood, Strada leans on real-time, variable-bitrate file streaming plus hardware encoders to adapt huge mezzanine files to whatever network you have. In this CES Las Vegas 2026 walk-through, they describe Apple Silicon as a good fit thanks to built-in HEVC, letting multi-GB media get compressed from “gigabit-class” data rates down to a few Mbps in roughly 100–200 ms, so you can work without pre-made proxy files today.
A newer piece is the virtual file system mount: Strada can appear in Finder like a local volume, so you can drag a remote clip directly into Final Cut Pro and keep the project pointing back to the original storage. On capable M-series machines, the same host can serve multiple concurrent ProRes streams for several editors, while Windows and ARM-enabled PCs can also participate when you need a mixed studio.
Looking forward, Strada talks about byte-range caching: edit lightweight H.265 proxies anywhere, then “conform” by pulling only the exact high-quality segments referenced on the timeline, minimizing transfer and avoiding manual relinks. The team also hints at Linux support and more appliance-like hardware paths (helped by OWC’s recent investment), which could turn direct-attached drives into a more distributed collaboration fabric for the years ahead.
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