Case Study: Local Hero Post achieves reliable high-speed, secure large-file transfers for feature film production with Signiant Media Shuttle

A Boutique Post Production Studio Closes the Digital Gap in end-to-end Feature Film Production

Local Hero Post is a boutique feature-film post production studio in Santa Monica/Hollywood that provides end-to-end digital finishing, VFX, and workflow services for indie and studio projects. Their challenge was reliably moving large, high-resolution files—dailies, VFX plates and DCPs—across sets and between coasts and countries; their legacy FTP and shipping drives were slow, unreliable and costly.

They closed that gap by adopting Signiant’s Media Shuttle, a hybrid SaaS, pay-as-you-go file-transfer solution (trialed on Haunt and later used on Captain Fantastic and The Choice). Media Shuttle handled transfers such as 40–100 GB/day of dailies and 65 GB cuts, giving Local Hero fast, scalable, secure transfers, branded web portals, and measurably improved efficiency and professionalism that helped attract and retain clients.

Local Hero Post

Andrew Wahlquist

Technologist, Local Hero Post