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Editing via OneDrive for College students
Our students currently edit their videos on specific machines, so the files are stored locally on C:Drive but my boss and IT support want this to be done using OneDrive. The Head of IT says our students have 1Tb of storage space which my boss parrots back to me but I keep trying to tell him its not about the storage space but the speed of accessing the files that’s the problem. I have been asked to look into how to get our students to be able to access their video files and edit from any PC in the college (several hundred machines with something like 2,000 students using the network at any one time). Short of giving each student a portable SSD to use, do any of you more knowledgable people have any ideas or pointers for me, or ammunition to use against OneDrive for this purpose (or can it be made to work?)
Thanks,
Ashley
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One Drive is grand for storing files etc. but not for editing.
Editing needs to be local.
Portable drive would be a better idea.
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My day job IT dept. would have a fit if that was ever brought up.
There are cloud options but that would mean a service that the school would have to pay for.
When I teach editing, all supplied files are handed on a USB drive.
They can work off the drive or leave it local it’s their choice.
But the college uses Deep Freeze so they can’t really save it on the local drive overnight.
OneDrive is buggy enough as it is, never mind as an editing portal 😛
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