Today’s Question: I made a collection of the best photos from a trip and included some videos in the collection. When I enable synchronization for the collection everything syncs except the videos. What’s going on?
Tim’s Quick Answer: Synchronization to the cloud from Lightroom Classic only supports still photos, not videos. Videos can synchronize from the cloud to Lightroom Classic, but not the other way around.
More Detail: While you can use Lightroom Classic to manage and even edit videos, you can’t synchronize videos to the cloud from Lightroom Classic. If you enable synchronization for a collection that includes both photos and videos, only the photos will be synchronized to the cloud.
If you add videos to Lightroom cloud storage through other means, such as by importing a video into the Lightroom app on a mobile device, that video will be downloaded into your Lightroom Classic catalog just like photos do. So, the issue with videos not uploading to the cloud is purely a limitation of Lightroom Classic.
I suspect part of the reason Lightroom Classic doesn’t synchronize videos to cloud storage is to avoid the issue of videos quickly consuming the available storage in your Creative Cloud plan. However, since video is supported in Lightroom cloud storage, I’m hopeful that Adobe will remove this limitation and allow videos to synchronize to the cloud via collections in Lightroom Classic.
