Stream & edit creative files directly from the cloud on Suite.

There are a million ways to express your creativity in this world of digital media & video. No matter which tools you use to edit, slice, chop, rearrange, design, or render, or how many people you collaborate alongside, Suite’s cloud-native filesystem can redefine the way you work.

Suite is one of the most flexible, performant file storage platforms for dispersed media teams—allowing real-time access to files without downloading or syncing. Better yet—Suite works seamlessly with every major creative platform, operating system, and workflow to serve every nuanced bit of the digital media, post production & creative industry.

In this article, we’re exploring some of the best file management tools & creative applications to use with Suite. Hint: It’s all of them. Here’s how the simplicity of Suite’s cloud storage makes it possible to complete a variety of editing, post production & creative tasks from anywhere.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the most trusted video editing applications for professionals in film, television, and more. Its popularity has skyrocketed thanks to creative features that enable precise, non-linear editing and seamless integration with other Adobe Creative Cloud applications like After Effects and Photoshop. On Suite, you can store, edit, and save Adobe Premiere Pro files just the same as if you were using a local server or hard drive, enhancing your ability to work collaboratively in real-time. Working in Premiere Pro, using Project Locking, and saving media on Suite establishes a central “source of truth," without having to download or sync assets locally.

Iconik

Iconik is a cloud-based media asset management (MAM) platform tailored for creative teams, and provides tools for efficient organization, collaboration, and distribution of content. When integrated with Suite, Iconik can enhance asset management by allowing teams to store and manage media files securely within a scalable, cloud-native environment, while gaining the benefits of the MAM’s content management tools. This integration streamlines collaboration for teams of any size, ensuring assets are easily accessible even when handling large & complex files, folders, and libraries.

DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve offers a full suite of video editing tools; but it’s renowned as the best color correction platform for video, for teams of any size. Using Suite, DaVinci Resolve users can collaborate on large projects with ease, storing and accessing high-resolution media directly from the cloud without downloading or syncing. This integration makes it easier for teams to work with remote colorists, or other creatives, to perform editing, grading, and effects tasks, all while ensuring that media assets are readily available to the right players at every step.

Avid Pro Tools

Avid Pro Tools is the industry-standard digital audio workstation (DAW) for music production, film scoring, podcasting, and general audio post-production. Its robust capabilities allow sound engineers to record, edit, and mix audio with precision, offering advanced features like track comping, MIDI editing, and seamless integration with video editing platforms. Avid Pro Tools users using Suite benefit from a streamlined audio workflow, easy file path creation, and permissions, allowing sound engineers to store, access, and manage large audio files from anywhere.

Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine is a leading real-time 3D creation tool used for game development, virtual production, and immersive experiences. Known for its real-time rendering capabilities and photorealistic visuals, its trusted for projects that require real-time interactivity and high-quality graphics. Unreal Engine's ability to render scenes in real-time is also revolutionizing the way this technology can be integrated into live-action shoots. No matter how complex, storing and sharing large 3D projects, assets, textures, and models on Suite enables teams to tap into the most talented creative networks & build their vision. Centralizing files on the cloud for instant accessibility with Unreal Engine & Suite, no matter where your team resides, creative players can access make the most of their inspiration.

Cinema 4D

Cinema 4D is a professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software widely used in motion graphics, VFX, and visualization. Regarded for its user-friendly interface and powerful motion graphics capabilities, particularly its MoGraph toolset, it’s also known for its fast and stable rendering engine. Cinema 4D is popular among motion designers & visual artists for its ease-of-use and robust integration with Adobe After Effects, and it’s often a go-to for artists who need to act quickly to create the next batch of high-quality animations and motion graphics.

Integrating Cinema 4D with Suite Studios' cloud storage allows teams to store, manage, and share complex 3D projects effortlessly across any distance. Suite provides scalable, performant storage that handles large Cinema 4D files just the same as a local drive or server, enabling real-time collaboration across distributed teams, and the “feel” as if everyone’s in the same room.

Autodesk Maya

Autodesk Maya is a leading 3D animation, modeling, and rendering software that offers advanced tools for creating high-quality 3D content, from character rigging to dynamic simulations. For more technical teams, it also comes out-of-the-box with modeling tools and can be customized extensively with scripting. Storing & managing large 3D assets in a centralized, cloud-based environment on Suite facilitates seamless collaboration among team members, allowing artists to access & edit media regardless of their location. Suite’s scalable cloud storage storage ensures that Maya projects, which often involve complex and large datasets, are handled efficiently, improving productivity in demanding 3D production environments.

Frame.io

Frame.io is a popular cloud-based video review & collaboration platform designed for video teams to provide real-time feedback, annotation, and approvals. Teams on Suite might utilize Frame.io during the final stages of approval. While RAW media is stored & edited on Suite, once rendered & ready for approval, it might make sense to upload the final cut to Frame.io to send to a client for direct feedback. Working on Suite, the moment you receive that feedback, you & your team can immediately make changes in Adobe Premiere Pro, or your preferred NLE, and finalize the cut.

Blender

Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation platform that supports modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, and motion tracking. Its versatility and extensive feature set make it a powerful tool for creators in various industries, and since it’s open-source, it has a large and active community of independent artists, freelancers, and small studios. but Blender's comprehensive—and ever-growing—set of tools make it a versatile option for a wide range of 3D projects, from animation to game development. Blender interacts with Suite’s cloud storage just the same as any local drive, so you can press “save” & get back into the Flow State from anywhere.

Nuke

Nuke is a powerful compositing and visual effects application used for creating high-quality VFX with a node-based workflow that lets artists build complex visual effects with precision and flexibility. Nuke excels in handling complex compositing tasks, such as integrating CGI with live-action footage, and it’s oft recognized as the industry standard for precision VFX compositing. Integrating Nuke with Suite allows VFX teams to store, manage, and share large compositing projects within a secure, scalable environment, and to easily onboard freelance & remote talent. Suite’s intuitive feel and real-time performance supports the demanding needs of high-resolution VFX work, ensuring that all project files and assets are easily accessible to the right artists every time.

Cinema Grade

Cinema Grade is a color grading plugin designed for filmmakers and video editors, offering a fast and intuitive way to color correct footage within popular NLEs like Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve. When used alongside Suite, Cinema Grade editors can manage color grading projects within a centralized cloud environment, without the need to download or sync media locally. Suite’s cloud storage provides a reliable solution that supports the high-resolution files & complex grading tasks involved in professional video production, eliminating the need to ship hard drives.

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking is a cloud-based software designed for media workflows—often visual effects—and helps teams manage assets, tasks, paths, and pipelines throughout the production process. When integrated with Suite, Flow offers an unparalleled level of organization and efficiency. Teams can store and access all their production assets directly from the cloud, ensuring that everyone is working with the most up-to-date files. Find out more how real teams are integrating Suite and Flow Production Tracking in this technical Case Study.

Houdini

Houdini is a powerful 3D animation & visual effects software that’s known for procedural generation, and excels in creating complex simulations, such as smoke, fire, water, and destruction effects. Its node-based workflow also allows artists to build intricate effects that can be easily modified and reused. Integrating Houdini with Suite unlocks new possibilities for remote collaboration and asset management. When artists store large simulation caches, textures, and 3D assets in Suite, they become easily accessible from any location, ensuring that VFX teams can collaborate in real-time, iterating on complex effects without the need to download massive files locally.

Final Thoughts

When working on Suite, everything is simpler. The best part? It doesn’t matter which creative application you use—every major platform is supported by Suite’s cloud-native filesystem. If you’re a video editor, colorist, MoGraph artists, or any number of creative roles in the media & post production industry, Suite can eliminate the need to ship drives & waste time. Upload files once to Suite, and begin working like everyone’s in the same office—no matter your location.

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