Hi everyone,
My coworker recorded a bunch of videos with his iPhone X. He then uploaded those directly to a Google Drive folder that he shared with me.
When opening Google Drive on the internet, double-clicking those files opens up Google's video player (a YouTube clone without YouTube) and the videos play fine. I had my coworker send me some of the video files directly to my Mac via Airdrop. When importing those into a Premiere sequence and rendering them, they also play fine.
When i download the files from Google Drive, import those into a Premiere sequence and render them, the audio plays fine, but the video does not. It starts out fine, but after a period of seconds, it somehow loses the link to the video frames and starts the video frames over from the beginning. After another period of seconds it does it again and continues to do it throughout the whole video.
An example of this is present at this unlisted link:
Video Render error - YouTube
The direct-from-Airdrop video (that rendered correctly) starts at the top and runs until 3:40.
The downloaded-from-Drive video (that rendered incorrectly) starts at 3:49. The first loop hiccup happens at 4:28; it happens again at 5:06, 5:40, 5:50, and 6:27.
My question is a few parts:
1. What is the cause of the issue? Is this a conversion issue from my coworker's phone to Drive, or my download from Drive to my computer, or both? Why does it happen and what can prevent this in the future if we want to do direct upload to Drive? Or should we just never directly upload a video from an iPhone into Google Drive?
2. My coworker has deleted some of the source material from his phone already, so the only versions of some of the videos are now located in the Drive folder. Is there a way to repair the video frame links from Drive or post-download from Drive or am I screwed?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Mendel
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