Hire any editor, anywhere. Keep every drive.
Stringout is remote video editing software for post-production teams. It puts ready-to-cut HEVC proxies in each remote editor’s Finder or File Explorer, in your project’s bins, while the camera originals stay on your own storage. No shuttle drives. No re-uploading the archive.
No footage needed. We bring a sample project.
Pro is $24 USD per person per month. A supervisor and two remote editors is $72. See pricing
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- Your editor gets
- HEVC proxies in your bins
- You keep
- Camera originals, on your storage
- They open it in
- Finder or File Explorer
- They cut in
- Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro
- You prepare on
- A Mac with Apple Silicon
- Seats
- One per person, including each editor
Still shipping drives to your editors?
| Job | The usual way | With Stringout |
|---|---|---|
| The courier | The usual way: Days in transit, a copy that is stale on arrival and a drive you may never see again. | With Stringout: Share the project. The proxies show up in the editor’s Finder. |
| The cloud bill | The usual way: Re-uploading terabytes you already own, then paying every month to keep them there. | With Stringout: Only editing proxies are published. There is no second archive to pay for. |
| The screen share | The usual way: Cutting through a laggy remote desktop while everyone pretends it is fine. | With Stringout: The editor cuts in their own Premiere Pro, Resolve or Final Cut Pro. |
Where does the remote editor find the footage? In your bins, in Finder, ready to cut.
A remote editor finds every shared clip in Finder or File Explorer, in the bins you built and under the camera’s clip names. They open it in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro and start cutting, with no drive to wait for, no download link and no “where’s that take?”
The illustration follows a Mac-to-Resolve handoff. Bins and proxy attachment work differently in Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro.
Do the camera originals have to move? No. Only editing proxies leave your drives.
Stringout publishes an editing proxy of each shared clip, not the camera file. The originals stay on your RAID, NAS or shuttle drives, so there is no second archive to store and nothing to migrate. A teammate receives a camera original only when they request one for finishing.
Sent to your editor
- 01_Interview/A001.MOV
- 01_Interview/B001.MOV
- 01_Interview/261029_T001.WAV
- 02_Selects/Picks/
- 03_Broll/
Proxies in the project’s bins, with clip names, timecode and reel
Stays on your storage
- CAMERA/A_CAM/A001.MOV
- CAMERA/B_CAM/B001.MOV
- SOUND/261029_T001.WAV
- BROLL/A002.MOV
- BROLL/A003.MOV
Camera originals, at full quality, for finishing
What if your Mac goes offline? Published proxies keep the edit going.
Once a clip’s proxy is published, the remote editor keeps working while the source Mac sleeps, travels or leaves the building. The edit does not depend on your office machine staying awake, so a freelancer in another city works the same hours as the one down the hall.
Publishing needs the source Mac online. Editors need internet for clips they have not opened before.
Card to cut. Your whole post pipeline, in one app.
Most teams are still taping together a transcoder, a sync tool, a transfer service and a remote desktop. With Stringout, one project carries the footage from the copied cards to the editor’s timeline, on storage you already own, at one price per seat. Be the team that figured this out first.
- PrepPrep the shootOrganize the copied cards, sync sound and cameras, and build the stringout on your Mac.DIT workflow automation →
- ProxiesShare the proxiesShare the project and Stringout makes and publishes an HEVC proxy of every clip.Proxy workflows →
- Remote editThis pageBring in the editorThe editor opens the bins in Finder or File Explorer and cuts in their own app.
Check the fit before you book.
- Prepare and share on
- A Mac with Apple Silicon
- Editors open media in
- Finder on Mac. File Explorer on Windows, as a read-only beta.
- Editing apps
- Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro, each with its own handoff and relinking path
- Seats
- One Pro seat for each person in the project, including each remote editor. Seats can’t be shared.
- First open
- Opening a clip for the first time downloads its whole proxy
Works with Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, OpenTimelineIO, HEVC (H.265).
One flat price. No storage bills. No AI credits. No surprises.
Free
$0on your own Mac
Stringout on your Mac: on-device transcription, search, sync and assembly. Export EDL/ALE, OpenTimelineIO or a rendered movie. Try File Streaming between two of your own computers on one local network.
ProBest for this workflow
$24USD per person per month
Everything in Free, plus joining a team, automatic proxies in Finder and File Explorer, File Streaming over the internet, original transfers and opening a cut directly in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro.
Every person in a shared project needs their own Pro seat, including each remote editor, and seats can’t be shared. A supervisor and two remote editors is 3 × $24 = $72 USD a month.
Billed monthly. Stringout sells no AI credits or cloud storage. Enterprise adds SAML SSO, roles and invoice billing.
Private by default. Your footage stays yours.
Originals stay on your storage.
Team sharing uploads editing proxies. Camera files move only when a teammate requests one.
Analysis runs on your Mac.
Transcription and visual analysis happen on the computer that holds the footage.
No AI-generated pixels.
Stringout organizes and arranges your footage. It does not train on your data.
Common questions.
15-minute demo
Watch a remote editor get cutting, live.
Book a 15-minute demoNo footage needed. We bring a sample project.
Your demo is with Theo PakFounder, Stringout
What you’ll see
- A project shared from a Mac, with its footage on an external drive.
- The same bins and proxies showing up in a remote editor’s Finder.
- The cut opening in an editing app, and the route back to the originals.
Then we check the fit with your storage, team and editing app.
No footage needed
Book a 15-minute demo