Use NAS to add media to project remotely?

Hi! Is it possible to drag and drop media from a NAS with all my stock shots and access these as long as I have wifi from windows? Like this drive would be visible in explorer and maybe it has some latency, but still usable to render?

My preference and recommendation is to always work from an internal drive.

Yes, Mine too, but sometimes I am travelling and may not have all shots I wanna use with me... how possible would it be to access my nas remotely and drag n drop files into resolve as if it is my internal?

Mount/map nas share as a drive and use as normal.

The only practical method for the specific scenario you mentioned is to use a streaming object-storage solution like LucidLink, which works like magic to work with huge video files without having to actually download them first in their entirety. It’s pretty a miraculous tool, but it does require that you’ve previously uploaded the media to a cloud object-storage provider like Amazon S3 or Wasabi (I highly recommend the latter, for economy sake, as there are no egress fees with Wasabi). It’s basically $15/month per Terabyte of data. They also have an on-premises solution as well, which would probably eliminate the need to upload the media somewhere first, but I’m not sure how much that costs.

Otherwise, I would not recommend this. Even though there are many options for mounting remote network volumes over the internet, and even though Resolve can “see” them just like any other local network share, you still have to contend with the speed and latency of the internet to download the media before Resolve can play them. And it’s even worse over WiFi.






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The other option is to use an on-demand syncing system like Resilio Sync to make your NAS contents available on your mobile computer. I use this to “virtually” work on the NAS at work, while keeping a synced copy of the media on my local system. You can use selective sync to only pull down the media you need, while stilll being able to see the unsynced entirety of the NAS on your local computer, and if you make any changes locally, those changes sync back to the NAS.

Many NAS units these days actually have built in support for Resilio Sync, so you might want to check with the vendor of your NAS.

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