About us
A library built by the people who shoot for it
Grainhouse was started by four cinematographers who were tired of licensing their own footage back at a discount.
Origin
Why the files are so large
Every other library we sold through re-encoded our masters into something convenient to store and useless to grade. We decided the storage and bandwidth cost was ours to carry, not the buyer's problem, and built a library that ships the original file.
- Contributors keep copyright and get half of every licence
- No exclusivity, ever
- AI training prohibited in both licences
Four cinematographers, 300 clips
One shared drive.
Releases collected at ingest
The paperwork problem, solved once.
8K RAW delivery
Storage stopped being the excuse.
Contributor network
410 shooters across 38 countries.
11,420 clips
3.2 PB delivered last quarter.
How we work
Boring on purpose
We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.
Own the path
We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.
Write it down
Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.
Some of the people behind it
A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.