Dropbox, Inc.

Iris Lin

Joshua Robin Kaplan

Alan Rogers

Stanley Yeung

Cheechee Lin

Graciela Kincaid

James Espejo

The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for providing a streamed presentation of a video proxy referencing a cloud-based location of a digital video. For example, the disclosed systems receive a request to edit a digital video stored in a cloud-based location of a content management system. In addition, the disclosed systems generate a video proxy that include a reference to the cloud-based location of the digital video and modifies the video proxy in response to an editing operation. Further, the disclosed systems provide for display a streamed presentation of the video proxy depicting modifications defined by the editing operation.

Utilizing proxy-based streaming to provide an end-to-end video editing interface

Systems and methods for creating content items are provided. In some examples, a method can include receiving a user selection of an interface element located in a persistent user interface of an operating system desktop of a client device, displaying, in response to the user selection of the interface element, a set of user options, the set of user options comprising a option to create a content item of a particular type, receiving a user selection of the option to create the content item, and initiating the creation of the content item.

Content item creation from desktop tray

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Iris Lin