Explore storage space for any organization that'due south been around awhile, and you'll observe video. The video format may vary: digital video, .mp4, .wmv, .mov, .avi, and it might be on physical tapes or discs. The video content may vary, also: training videos, production videos, marketing videos, and perchance even some meeting videos.

All of these videos have upwards space — either on your server or in your storage cabinet. And these videos are hard to view: people demand admission and the correct combination of software or equipment.

Upload videos

If you use Google Drive for Work, you could move your videos to Google Drive. While y'all might think of Drive equally a place for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, Drive tin also store and serve video files. Drive supports all of the video file types listed earlier, plus a few more listed at Google's Help page.

Move your video files with the familiar "drag-and-drop" method: Open your browser to your destination folder on Google Bulldoze, select your video files, then elevate-and-drop the files to Google Bulldoze. Google Drive displays the queued files and/or folders to exist uploaded in the lower correct portion of the Google Drive browser tab.

Then, wait for your files to upload. The speed of your internet connection will determine how long the upload takes. If a file upload fails, Drive displays a "Retry" choice next to the failed file or folder. Select "Retry," and the failed files will exist re-uploaded. This works even for folders filled with hundreds of files.

Yous should review your internet service provider's bandwidth caps before uploading big quantities of information. Some providers limit full bandwidth, while others limit uploads separately from downloads. In some cases, you may need to spread your uploads over multiple months.

Google processes video files after they're uploaded, and so files may not be bachelor to view immediately. Similarly, if you lot move a large video file, in that location may be a brief delay before you can view the file. You'll see a "The video is not yet processed" message when this happens. Wait a while, then try again.

Share and view videos

With Google Drive, access to video files is no longer limited. Videos may exist viewed almost anywhere: in Chrome on the spider web, on mobile devices with the link, or from inside the Google Drive mobile app.

Y'all may share video files in the same fashion you tin share any file on Google Drive. You may make a video public for anyone to see, limit access to your system, or restrict access to specific people.

Add together caption tracks

Google Drive supports caption tracks for videos. This helps make the video content accessible to people otherwise unable to hear the audio track, either due to hearing harm or a noisy work environs.

To create a caption track, you lot'll edit a text file that includes the text to brandish during a specified video fourth dimension clock period (Effigy A). Then, select the video file in Google Drive, cull the overflow menu (the three dots, arranged vertically), and select "Manage caption tracks." Drive supports captions in both SubRip (.srt) and SubViewer formats (.sbv). (Run into Google'due south caption track help page for more details, and a YouTube aid page for examples of the two caption formats.)

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Add a caption rail to a video stored on Google Drive to ameliorate understanding.

You lot may add captions in multiple languages: edit another caption text file, then add it equally an additional caption runway. People viewing the video may switch to the caption rail of their preference or turn off captions, if desired.

As with video, wait a flake later on you add a explanation track for Bulldoze to process the video.

Limits?

Video storage on Google Drive does have limits on file size, playback resolution, and total storage space. The largest file you can shop is 5 TB. Videos playback at a maximum resolution of Full Hard disk (1920 x 1080). In most cases, neither of these present whatsoever concern.

Individual account storage, however, may be an issue. Each Google Apps account receives 30 GB of storage, while Google Apps with unlimited storage increases cost, but removes storage limits. (Organizations with 4 or fewer accounts on this plan volition receive a limit of 1 TB of storage per account.)

You can always purchase more than storage for an account if y'all need it. Chromebook buyers may have extra storage, too. (In Nov 2014, Google offered 1 TB of storage for two years to any Chromebook heir-apparent, as function of a limited special offer.)

Upload now

There'south little reason to dedicate on-site storage space to video if your organisation uses Google Drive Unlimited. Information technology may take some time to upload, process, and share video files. It may take even more time to add captions in multiple languages. Only moving your videos to Google Drive reduces on-site storage needs. More chiefly, it increases access: people — with permission — tin can view videos almost anywhere.

What types of video does your organization shop on Google Drive? Take you reduced your on-site video file storage needs even so? Share your experience in the word thread below.