Ecuadorian post house runs fully virtual color grading on LucidLink
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Key Takeaways
- Vuela grades 4K RAW EXR files averaging 3+ GB per shot; LucidLink streams data on-demand so upload and download happen simultaneously with no lag
- Prior solutions—WeTransfer, Google Drive, FTP—proved unreliable for data-heavy workflows; physical hard drives caused incremental downtime from delivery and transfer waits
- Crespi discovered LucidLink at the HPA Tech Retreat in February 2020 via Jeff Olm, Technology Director at Eclipse Tech and VFX artist on Titanic and The Fifth Element
- Grading and finishing on DaVinci Resolve is fully decentralized with media in the cloud; Crespi states the facility will remain virtual from now on
- Crespi frames LucidLink as a differentiating service factor—clients now expect it as standard, and it adds value to Vuela's offering
Why It Matters
Vuela's case demonstrates that cloud-native post-production is viable for boutique studios in emerging markets, not just major-market facilities with dedicated IT. LucidLink's on-demand streaming model eliminates local file copies, solving a pain point that physical media and consumer file-transfer tools could not address for data-intensive 4K color grading workflows. The broader signal: the addressable market for cloud post infrastructure extends to small studios with international ambitions across Latin America and similar regions. Watch whether other boutique post houses adopt cloud-first models, and whether LucidLink's enterprise features like TeamCache and Dynamic Tiering filter down to smaller customers.
Additional Context
LucidLink raised $75 million in Series C funding in November 2023, led by Brighton Park Capital with participation from Adobe Ventures, Headline, and Baseline Ventures. The company reported ARR growth of roughly 5x over two years and a user base increase of 4x, with customers including Adobe, A&E Networks, Spotify, and Buzzfeed collaborating on over one billion files across 40 countries.
At NAB 2025 in February, per Sports Video Group, LucidLink unveiled its new platform with AWS S3 backing by default, Dynamic Tiering for hot and cool data classes, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and SAML-based SSO via Okta and Microsoft Entra ID. At IBC 2025 in September, LucidLink announced TeamCache—a site-level caching add-on delivering LAN-class performance for distributed teams—and a set of Enterprise Power-Ups including custom snapshots, proxy support, and SCIM-based identity integrations. The company also received an Engineering Emmy Award from the Television Academy.
On the partnership front, LucidLink and Moments Lab announced an AI-indexing integration in January 2025. Global media brand Brut tested the combined workflow at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, achieving over 600 million views and a 90% year-over-year increase in social platform engagement. LucidLink also integrated with EVS and Adobe for live sports production, enabling live-event ingest directly into cloud filespaces for remote editing in Adobe Premiere Pro. At SATIS 2025 in November, per Embrace, LucidLink partnered with Embrace and Iconik to showcase a joint cloud-native media pipeline built on AWS services including MediaConvert, Rekognition, and Bedrock.
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