Case Study: Skywalker Sound achieves secure remote collaboration with Resilio Connect

Resilio Connect enables Skywalker Sound’s editors to efficiently work from home on Disney, Pixar and Marvel films

Skywalker Sound, the legendary audio post-production studio behind Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and other major film and TV projects, needed to rapidly shift from a shared local-storage ProTools workflow to a secure distributed model when COVID-19 forced staff to work from home. Their stopgap solution, Google File Stream, could not handle their huge file volumes, offered limited queue control, and lacked the support they needed, while bandwidth differences and data-security requirements added further complexity.

Resilio Connect provided the solution, giving Skywalker Sound differential block-level transfers, granular synchronization control, centralized visibility, and responsive support. With Resilio, the studio built a workflow that synced local external drives at home with primary storage at Skywalker Ranch and partner studios, while keeping data encrypted in transit and protected at rest. The result was a secure, efficient remote-editing setup that improved productivity and flexibility, and Skywalker Sound expects to keep using Resilio Connect for ongoing studio-to-studio synchronization and future distributed work.

Skywalker Sound

Steve Morris

Director of Engineering