LucidLink gives a team a shared, cloud-backed Filespace so everyone's editor can open the same media without keeping a full local copy. Sequence replaces the Filespace and the editor it feeds with one browser-based project — media, editing, and review all live in the same place, so there's no separate drive to provision, mount, or troubleshoot alongside your NLE.
How Sequence maps to LucidLink#
| In LucidLink | In Sequence | Learn More |
|---|---|---|
| A Filespace mounted as a local drive | The cloud project itself — media lives centrally, and you edit it straight in the browser, no drive to mount first | |
| Local cache size and eviction settings | Nothing to configure in the browser — Sequence keeps every asset centralized in its cloud project service | |
| Filespace permissions per user or team | Project roles (Owner, Admin, Editor, Guest) and workspace roles control who can see and change what | Workspace roles and permissions |
| A separate NLE for editing on top of the Filespace | Editing, comments, and review in the same project — no second app to license or keep in sync | Edit together in real time |
Where Shuttle lines up with a Filespace#
If your team still wants local, Finder-level access to project media — for bulk ingest, or to open files in another app — Sequence Shuttle is the closer point of comparison, and its caching model works a lot like a Filespace:
| In LucidLink | In Shuttle |
|---|---|
| A Filespace mounted as a local drive | A project mounted as a local drive at /Volumes/SequenceProjects/, from the menu bar or Mount with Shuttle in Sequence |
| On-demand streaming — you don't wait for a full local sync | Prefetching — Shuttle downloads footage ahead of the playhead as you play or scrub, instead of syncing the whole file first |
| A configurable local cache | A disk cache, 1 GB–1 TB (100 GB by default), set in Shuttle's Settings, plus a fixed 1 GB in-memory cache |
| Automatic eviction as local storage fills up | The same idea — Shuttle throttles uploads once free cache headroom drops below 20%, then evicts the least recently used cached data below 10% |
| Cross-platform (macOS, Windows, Linux) | macOS only, today |
| Any application can read the mounted volume | The same, plus one-click file links that hand a single file from Sequence straight to its default Mac app |
Shuttle is macOS only
Editing in Sequence works fully in the browser on any platform — Shuttle adds faster local ingest and a mounted drive for macOS users. Windows editors upload and work with media through the browser instead.
One project instead of a stack
LucidLink plus an NLE plus a review tool become one browser tab in Sequence: upload once, edit live with your team, and share a screening for approval — see Create and share a screening.