You're still using Google Drive for this. We can't tell from your screen shot what your settings are, but if you aren't set to sync everything then you'll only get a stub file in your local folder (until you actually open the file on the local machine). That file will have a small, set, size, so @griffman's check won't work.
Cloud services can also do funky things with file size reporting -- it may be it's returning the "expected" size if you did download it which, again, will be fixed and not useful as a progress monitor.
How you get round this will depend on your workflow. Why not just use the 5 minute pause, since that's been shown to work? If you need to get things done more quickly, where is the file coming from? If you are doing the initial capture on your local machine you'd be much better off changing things so that you capture to a local folder, process using that local file, and then (if you must have these things in the cloud) copy both the initial capture and the processed result to the Google Drive folder.