# Duplicate Version, share upload?

**URL:** <https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/duplicate-version-share-upload/17320>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 12, 2023, 10:22am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/duplicate-version-share-upload/17320 "2023-05-12T10:22:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Patrick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/patrick/32/4767_2.png) [@Patrick](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/Patrick)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 10:22am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/duplicate-version-share-upload/17320/1 "2023-05-12T10:22:08Z")

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Is there any way to duplicate a Version without having to re-upload the media?  
It would be nice if I could set the Version uploaded\_media to the same s3 paths that the parent Version has to prevent the need to re-upload the same media.

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**Author:** ![Ross\_Macaluso](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/ross_macaluso/32/873_2.png) [@Ross\_Macaluso](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/Ross_Macaluso)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 2:41am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/duplicate-version-share-upload/17320/2 "2023-05-15T02:41:46Z")

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I might be wrong but I think this can only be done if your studio takes over the transcoding trigger, and handles movie transcoding on your end as a standalone server, then you could mirror media all you wanted cause you’d be controlling the entire flowstate from movie to transcode to cloud…

you could switch to local-linked movies then you could just mirror that string but i’m assuming your purpose here is to get all the nice triggered fields that are auto filled with the sg\_upload, and also have the media live on the cloud…

curious if anyone has done this without taking over the transcode, but I dont see any exposed fields that would support this.

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**Author:** ![Ricardo\_Musch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/ricardo_musch/32/405_2.png) [@Ricardo\_Musch](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/Ricardo_Musch)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/duplicate-version-share-upload/17320/3 "2023-05-16T20:25:47Z")

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Yeah I think you’d have to take over the cloud setup.

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