MOGRT and OneDrive Workflow

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Hello,I work as a motion designer as part of a larger media team.We want to move to a more collaborative and fluid way of working and sharing assets. We plan to move to using OneDrive to store and share project assets.We currently use Mogrts deliverables for the majority of our work, due to their sizes and editability. However, if we need to make a fix or edit, the whole team would need to update the mogrts from a folder location.I want to know what the best way to share updates of Mogrts, that uses OneDrive, and doesn't require the user to always reload and replace?Any thoughts on this would be great to hear. Thank you

R Neil Haugen · Answer

I've worked with a number of different processes, one that totally works, others that totally bonked.

OneDrive was a total bonk. And comparing to the one that works, it boils down to OneDrive being designed to work with document files, and spreadsheets.

It 'chunks' up packets to send in whatever fashion is easiest at the moment for it to do, not based on getting video data packaged and delivered in a way that actually gets the files playable/usable from an online source. And it constantly goes through the local folder, checking for any changes, and resets the folder header data as it does so. This can play havoc with an NLE, and not just Premiere.

The one system that actually, always, just works for us, is LucidLink. It's a 'transport service' linked to typically AWS servers, or others of your choice. And it is designed totally as a video file transport service.

It creates a virtual drive on your computer, and it doesn't matter who's running Macs or PCs. Both your computer and any NLE think it's actually a normal local drive.

For example, partner Mo in Cape Town SA, calls me on the phone. He's just started an upload of some media and Ae comps that he's been working on to our L-L filespace. He's all Mac, I'm all PC. Our "physical" files live on Amazon S3 servers in London, and I'm in Oregon, US west coast.

While talking, I open the Explorer drive listing, go to the L-L virtual drive (O on my machine) ... and yea, there's the folder and files start appearing. So I go to Premiere, open the project we're working on ... a Production also stored on the L-L by the way, and right-click and Import the files which are actually still being uploaded to London!

And ... grab some, through them on a sequence, and get playback. Even though it hasn't finished the upload from Cape Town to London ... it is near to a Harry Potter experience.

It does take sustained, low-latency up/down speeds above 240Mpbs, probably above 400 for multiple large-K files in playback. You can also 'pin' some clips, which copies them to local storage, if needed for playback.

It does cost but in all, is very reasonable and it simply works. They give great support throught their Slack, which has normally both staffers and other users popping in with answers or suggestions nearly immediately.

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