Dropbox and Video Are Not A Good Fit

By Jason Shah | July 29, 2011

 

Dropbox is a phenomenal service.  Over 25 million users agree. We use the service extensively within Mediafly for file transfer and syncing of non-sensitive files, and it has become a part of our daily production workflow. Most of our partners and customers use Dropbox as well, to shuttle files back and forth with us. In fact, several team members have reached the referral limit because of the number of other users they have brought into the service.

We have received this question from a few companies that produce a lot of video content:

“How is Mediafly different than Dropbox?”

Specifically, these companies want to distribute pre-production dailies, rough cuts, studio cuts, and more, to their executives, producers, and directors.

At a high level, this seems like a great use of the service. Dropbox is:

However, there are a lot of problems with this approach:

Dropbox and Video are not a good fit in every scenario, and bugs will often arise. Click below to download a demo of My ProReview for iOS or Android and see how video distribution should work:

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