Collaborative video editing when working from home

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Hi,

We have a couple of users who are editing videos in Adobe Premier and collaborating on the same video, and obviously due to the pandemic they are working from home.

We have set them up with OneDrive and SharePoint so the source files sync to the cloud, and they can make the files they need available locally on their hard drives when required to work on a project, but they are not happy with this solution. They have tried saving the files to a Windows network drive and accessing them over the VPN, but obviously that's worked terribly. So they have come to us to ask for another solution.

So I'm wondering what other people are doing in your companies? I'm hoping there is some sort of best practise out there, but I'm guessing most video production is done by small freelance companies who don't have the resources to work from home and are probably working in a small office somewhere and hoping they don't catch COVID. But I'm hoping someone has implemented something that is working well.

Thanks,

Dan

[salvo34]

thanks for clarification you guys, re: sharing stuff online etc.

is interesting but never use it as my edit computer isn't connected to internet ever ( since initial setup and updates I took out the wire to internet ).

I can use laptop with internet but screens are different so I could only look at basic stuff and not quality of images and sound etc.

I've done that and it's close enough for hobby stuff IMO.

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

HI Sasha,

Good question. I think you are looking for a recommendation from Adobe, but I don't think we have any official ones to make. I can offer up what I've seen work from my colleagues Dave Helmly and Jon Barrie. They showed a pretty nice workable solution from Lucid Link without a lot of cost. I don't even think you need a Teams account, but you'd need to check with Lucid Link. The Productions workflow can be taken advantage of, however, and that's what Dave and JB show in the following video. Our ACPs, Neil and Mo use this setup as well and advocate for its use.

Not an official nod, just an opinion. Hope it provides some guidance.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Sasha_L]

Thank you Kevin!  I am already in touch with LucidLink folks...

[R Neil Haugen]

My partner Mo and I have found the LucidLink staff to offer excellent support. Amazing attention to their clients.

Neil