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Social media, video production, brand building and studio IT, written by the team at Clouds Agency. 140 articles so far.
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Premiere Pro Stutter on Shared Storage: Find the Cause
Premiere Pro stutters when the timeline plays from a NAS? Here is how to tell storage, network, codec and GPU limits apart before you change any settings.
October 14, 2026
Premiere Pro Dropped Frames on a NAS: SMB and Cache Fixes
Dropped frames and buffering in Premiere Pro on a NAS often come down to link speed, SMB signing, wired or wireless paths and cache location. Fix them in order.
October 12, 2026
Premiere Pro Media Offline After Moving Drives: Relink
Premiere Pro shows media offline after you move a drive or rename a share. Here is how to relink in Link Media, why it happens, and how to stop it recurring.
October 9, 2026
Premiere Pro Proxies: Ingest Workflow for Choppy Timelines
Choppy timelines on heavy camera footage? Set up Premiere Pro ingest settings and proxies so every editor gets smooth playback and a clean link to full res.
October 7, 2026
10GbE Troubleshooting: Cables, SFP, MTU and iperf3
A 10GbE link that runs at 1 Gb, or never reaches speed? Check cables, SFP optics, switch ports, MTU and jumbo frames, then prove it with an iperf3 test.
October 5, 2026
Why Wi-Fi Is the Wrong Tool for Video Editing
Editing from a NAS over Wi-Fi leads to stutter and disconnects. Learn what Wi-Fi is good for, what to use instead, and how to move an editor onto a wired link.
October 2, 2026
DaVinci Resolve Shared Projects and Database Basics
How DaVinci Resolve shared projects work: project databases, the free Project Server, bin locking, media paths and caches, and the order to set it up.
September 30, 2026
Avid Media Composer on Shared Storage: The Basics
How Avid Media Composer finds media on shared storage: MediaFiles folders, media databases, bin locking, and what changed for NAS users in version 2026.8.
September 28, 2026
Premiere Export Color Shift: QuickTime and YouTube
Why a Premiere Pro export looks washed out in QuickTime or different on YouTube, what Viewer Gamma does, and a checklist for matching what viewers see.
September 25, 2026
H.264 and HEVC Playback Problems: Hardware Decoding
Camera H.264 and HEVC files lag or stutter in the editor? Learn why they are hard to play, what hardware decoding does, and the fixes to try in a safe order.
September 23, 2026
Frame.io Slow Uploads: Large File Transfer Fixes
Frame.io uploads slow or stalling? Check your uplink, wired connection, browser, batch size and the Frame.io Drive app, and learn how to plan big transfers.
September 21, 2026
Slow Studio Network? A 15 Minute Checklist
Run this 15 minute checklist when the studio network feels slow. Isolate the cause with link speed, ping, iperf3, a file copy and a look at the NAS and switch.
September 18, 2026