Importing OneDrive files into Premiere Pro

[kevinr66756736]

I have some large video files on OneDrive (around 3-5GB) each. These take a long time to download, so I was wondering if you can access files to OneDrive through Premiere Pro, so that I don't have to download each file, can just import it straight into Premiere Pro from OneDrive

[Ann Bens]

Best is to work with local drives.

Use one drive for backups.

[John T Smith]

>take a long time to download

>import it straight into Premiere Pro from OneDrive

Downloading slowly means the files would have the same slowness while trying to edit, if PPro would even be able to access the files from a remote location

Have you tried to do that to find out for yourself?

[R Neil Haugen]

I'm testing out LucidLink's service for remote collaborations in both Team Projects and Productions mode. Which seems almost magical in some ways. That service moves all file metadata and the first frames immediately, so you can use that as your shared storage and actually work.

It does need many gigs of local storage to move files down to your machine that you are currently working with. I don't think OneDrive can duplicate that process.

Neil

[Allister P]

Hi Kevin

To have this work you need to have onedrive setup with share point, This will link up your files to your device like google drives desktop app.

1. Install onedrive desktop app https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/onedrive/download

2. log into SharePoint https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sign-in-to-sharepoint-324a89ec-e77b-4475-b64a-13a0c14c45e...

3. Sync your SharePoint site with your desktop app https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sync-sharepoint-files-with-the-onedrive-sync-client-groov...

4. Once it is synced then you should be able to access your files from premiere, it won't show inside of the file importer as a drive so you need to look at this directory to file your files: C:\Users\(your account)\(site name)

I agree that it is better to have the files downloaded and to work on them locally but we live in a time where the internet is fast now and it is possible to work on massive files from a cloud. I hope this helps.

[Luke29538992d7f2]

How long would this process take?

[Allister P]

Hi Luke

The process took about 10 minutes per PC. As Brad mentioned this kind of approach isn't the best way to work with files unless internet speeds and cloud storage are favorable (cloud storage in the terabytes and internet speeds in the gigabytes up and down). The reason why this workflow works for us is that we have those ideal circumstances and it best suits the work we are doing.

[R Neil Haugen]

While some services might work at times for some things under the exact right circumstances, OneDrive isn't one I would bet on. From experience.

Among other things, it doesn't know how to prioritize which parts of files get sent in what sequential order ... to OneDrive and nearly all such services, data is data. As in ... a spreadsheet. Which order things arrive in or how they're grouped is not a design criteria because the whole thing has to be delivered before use.

LucidLink is a service designed for video use across the net. And is built to sort and send the right packets of data in the right order. It's been heavily tested and used by thousands of professional shops a day. And is well supported by the Adobe DVA "Hollywood" staffers.

Because with decent web speeds, it works as if you had the media locally.

My partner is in Cape Town. I'm near Salem, Oregon, in a small community. Our shared files are on an S3 Amazon server in London.

He calls me via Whatsapp that he's uploading a folder of video and/or comps. I go to my "Explorer" app in Windows, and open the L-L 'virtual' drive ... my "O" drive at this time.

Within seconds, his overall folder appears, a couple more seconds, subfolders appear, a couple more, I'm seeing individual files appear.

At that point I can go to Premiere and Import them into a project. And start putting them on a sequence. When they haven't even finished uploading from Cape Town to London yet.

That's ... amazing.

Neil

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

One should never work on live files on remote file services like OneDrive, etc. Even in the most ideal of situations, it depends on your internet speed about whether you can even approach the speed of working on a file locally.

A typical external USB 3 disk harddrive runs around 120MB/s. An SSD can easily double that speed. If you have 1GB fibre internet (1Gb/s (GigaBIT) transfer = theoretically 120MB/s... that could work. More important than your download speed is what your UPLOAD speed is, as to work on a remote file means reading AND writing on it. Most fibre ISPs are synchronous, meaning the upload speed equals the download speed. Other technologies (e.g. cable) usually have asynchronous speeds, so even if you had Cable 1Gb/s download speed, your upload speed may only be a fraction of that, say 20Gb/s = 2.5MB/s. Hardly usuable.