Dropbox import moves finished films from your Dropbox into a Knotflix collection with no download and no re-upload — the film transfers cloud-to-cloud, and the file in your Dropbox stays put as the master.
We built this because our own masters already live in Dropbox, and re-uploading a 30GB file we already had in the cloud felt absurd. The flow:
The import never routes the file through your machine — or your internet connection at all. Knotflix mints a temporary link and the streaming backend pulls the film straight from Dropbox, so a 30GB master imports just as fast from a wedding venue’s Wi-Fi as from the studio.
The flip side: Knotflix keeps no second copy of the original — the file in your Dropbox is the master. Once processing finishes, streaming no longer depends on it, so moving it later won’t break the gallery — but treat that file like the archive it is.
The gallery keeps streaming — once processing finishes, the encoded copy is independent of Dropbox. But Knotflix does not store the original for imported films, so that Dropbox file is your only master. Archive it somewhere before you delete it.
Dropbox tokens occasionally lapse. Hit Reconnect in the import window or in Settings → Dropbox and approve again. Everything already imported is untouched, and one reconnect fixes it for your whole studio.
No — the import only saves time when the file is already in Dropbox. For local masters, upload directly: the Mac app handles multi-gigabyte files with resumable uploads, and the web uploader is fine for smaller exports.
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