On-prem media asset management

Find any shot on your NAS, from a browser.

Downlink Media indexes the footage already on your shares, makes proxies, and lets your team search, review and share it. Nothing is copied to the cloud, and nothing on your storage is moved.

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v00.02.00 Collections, share links and a new interface · Collections, share links, per-library proxy settings, a Mac encoder and a reworked interface for reviewing footage. Release notes
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H.264 proxies for clips a browser cannot play

Measured on our development hardware. Your shares and network will differ.

Built for footage that lives on a NAS

Your editors already work from the shares. Downlink works from the same place.

Indexes in place

Point Downlink at NFS, SMB or local disks. It reads your folders where they are and never copies the originals anywhere.

Proxies on demand

Browser-friendly proxies for everything, or only for what someone opens. A big archive does not need weeks of encoding first.

Search that keeps up

Search by name, reel, camera or notes, and filter by codec, frame rate, resolution, duration, rating or keyword.

Review on the timecode

Frame stepping, JKL shuttle, a running timecode and comments pinned to the frame they are about.

Share without accounts

Send a client a link to a library, folder or collection, with an optional password and expiry. Every view is logged and any link can be revoked.

Follows renames and moves

Rename a folder or move a clip to the archive volume. Keywords, comments and proxies go with it.

Everything it does

How it works

  1. Install it beside your storage

    Downlink runs with Docker Compose on one server: a Linux box next to the NAS, a Mac mini, or the NAS itself.

  2. Add your shares

    Register each share as a volume, then group folders into libraries per client or production and give people roles in them.

  3. Open it in a browser

    Downlink scans, makes proxies and keeps up as files arrive. Your team searches, watches, comments and shares from any browser on your network.

See it on footage like yours

Tell us about your storage and your team, and we will show you Downlink running.

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From the blog

Introducing Downlink Media

Downlink Media is a media asset management server for video teams whose footage already lives on a NAS. It runs on your own hardware, next to your storage, with no …