How to send a large video with a temporary link
A finished video is often too large for an email attachment. A temporary link lets your recipient download the original without attaching the video to a message. With DROP, your entire transfer must fit within 3 GB.
Send a fileSend the original
- Check the combined file size: at most 3,000,000,000 bytes. Keep a separate original copy.
- Open DROP, choose your video and start the upload. Keep the browser open until the actual upload completes.
- Copy the ready link and send it to the intended recipient. Confirm the expiry shown on the transfer.
- Ask the recipient to download before expiry. Supported codecs can preview in the browser; download the original if preview is unavailable.
Estimate the transfer time
The theoretical upload time is file bytes × 8 ÷ available upload bits per second. A 1 GB file over a sustained 20 Mbps upload would take about 400 seconds before overhead. This is a mathematical example, not a measured DROP result; routing, retries and other traffic can make it longer.
If the video is larger than 3 GB
Create a smaller export if that is suitable for the recipient, or choose another service and plan that explicitly supports the full file. DROP cannot make a transfer above its limit succeed by renaming the file. A transfer tool is also not a permanent backup.