Does Saving Files To Google Drive Make Premiere Run Slower?

[jack_0914]

I've been working on a project for a while and have everything uploaded and sorted to a Google Drive account.

I've noticed that Premiere Pro seems to be running significantly slower than what I've been used to. I don't know if this is because of Google Drive as my files are not on my M.2 and I feel like it would run significantly faster if I were to just have my files on my own drive.

Here are my PC specs:

- RTX 3090

- Ryzen 5 5800x

- 32GB DDR4 3600Mhz

- Samsung 980 Pro 2TB

Thank you for any help

[Averdahl]

Keeping project file and source media on a local drive is the way to go. Having them in a folder were a cloud service always read the files and upload them when needed do often cause issues.

Try it, move your project out of the cloud folder to a local folder and try if it is slower or faster.

[R Neil Haugen]

Averdahl is right ... working with Google Drive, Onedrive, Dropbox, or WeTransfer (among others) "holding" the specified location is fraught with potential troubles.

LucidLink is different, as that "transport service" was built from the ground up to work with video files inside pro video applications. And knows how to work with them. All the other general ones are built to work with normal data files ... docs & spreadsheets and such. And how they work causes issues with video editing.