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It was easy to setup my account and link into my company's server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have to restart and reloginto lucid link whenever I lose power due to power outages which causes me to lose my cache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Set-up is pretty painless, as is using new users and groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I've noticed that setting a user's permission to "read-only" still allows that user to access and downoad files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is easy to use, operates just like local storage, the billing structure is transparent and straightforward, and prices are affordable for what it offers. I'm an active user of multiple cloud storage solutions, and none of them can compare with LucidLink's responsiveness and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Can't seem to find anything negative about it. Maybe having file preview in browser option? Developers did great job in implementing useful feature that help users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lucid has been awesome for our in-house video team. Using it with team projects in Adobe Premiere or Davinci Resolve has been a game-changer. Very fast and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes Lucid will do something weird, like it'll just stop uploading a file, or it just randomly refuses to download a file, or maybe it won't show up in Finder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We created a great map that shows all paths for different members of our Creative team. For example, we have folders to receive footage from our freelance camera ops, copywriters can now view footage for their clients, we've changed the process that we've had for years and can now be more efficient than ever before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I've heard a lot about speed, but after doing internet speed test, we are still struggling with 4k footage. Whether it's uploading or downloading, it's kind of slow.
Also, to give outside people limited access, instead of them installing an app, which they don't want to do, it would be great to copy a link to share certain folders with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
With our global events output our team is distributed internationally and LucidLink transformed our approach to workflow and as a result our pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
You are at the mercy of bandwidth even if it's limited. No connectivity = no ballgame. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
LucidLink maintians the file locks that CAD applications like Revit and AutoCAD need to work in a multiuser environment. There are very few solutions for the problem of working with CAD files in a distributed environment. It's also fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The only thing I can say against it is that I wish it were less expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A real cloud-based video drive edit solution is here. After some calls and troubleshooting with Lucid Link's fantastic support staff, we dialed in consistent performance editing promos using seven half-hour episodes at UHD resolution. As a single editor freelancer, having patient and plain-spoken tech support was helpful. Used Premiere Pro v22 for the project. Did some quick tests with Avid MC, and it seemed like a similar performance could be expected. Handed off the media to another editor out of state, and all worked as expected. I also love not having more desk real estate taken up by a raid drive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
To scrub through footage in the source window of Premiere, you have to enable proxies and at least 1/2 resolution in the window. The Premiere project and various caches must be on a local HD, either internal or external ssd, to extract the best performance. I have Fios 1 gig service; you can tell when your speeds dip below a particular MB per minute. Residential ISP speeds can be a concern. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lucid works perfectly for video editing. You install it and upload some files and add your colleagues to the filespace and from there you just get working. There is no complex setup and giving file permissions is easy. Lucid allows us to collaborate on projects at a moments notice, working more flexibly than ever before. After a few days of testing we already felt ready to trust it in our workflow, and now our workflow is fully built around the use of Lucid. It honestly works like magic! When you have your cache folder on a nice fast external SSD it's a dream to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The only downside is that, for example if you start uploading 100gb of footage and then a few minutes later make a small change to a project file, your change to that project file won't sync until the 100gb of footage has uploaded first. So there needs to be a way to prioritise what gets synced/uploaded, or a way to pause certain uploads so something else can upload first, and then un-pause the big upload when you are ready. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The speed in which you can start working on shared files. Not having to have the whole file downloaded to start working on it is epic. It also helps my remote team in the philipines work with large multi gig files with no issues. Love this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My only gripe is that you cannot access files on the fly online like you can with a google drive. With that said, the speed and easy still makes it way worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
