Frame.io is a cutting-edge, cloud-based collaboration platform specifically designed for video professionals, including filmmakers, video editors, and other creative teams involved in the post-production process.
What Frame.io Does
Frame.io serves as a centralized hub where teams can upload, review, share, and collaboratively edit video projects. This platform streamlines the collaboration process by providing a virtual workspace that enables real-time feedback and efficient communication among team members, regardless of their geographical locations.Key Features and Functionality
Collaboration Tools
- Real-Time Feedback: Users can leave time-stamped comments and annotations directly on video frames, making the feedback and revision process more precise and efficient.
- Version Control: Ensures that team members are always working on the most current version of a project, reducing confusion and miscommunication.
Integration with Editing Software
- Frame.io seamlessly integrates with popular video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, allowing for a smooth workflow without the need to switch between different applications.
Security and Control
- Robust Security Options: Includes features like watermarking and secure sharing to protect sensitive content. The platform also offers basic and enterprise-level security features to ensure data safety.
Organization and Navigation
- Project Navigation: Users can easily organize and navigate projects and assets using new folder nesting and intuitive drag-and-drop capabilities in Frame.io Version 4 (V4).
- Collections: Allows users to group and sort media assets into flexible building blocks that update in real time, helping to craft the perfect workflow for the team.
Metadata and Asset Management
- Flexible Metadata Framework: In V4, users can tag, sort, and group assets using 32 out-of-the-box metadata fields as well as custom fields like status, selects, rating, assignee, and keywords. This framework enables users to view any asset’s metadata at a glance.
Viewing and Review Experience
- High-Precision Viewing: Frame.io V4 offers a high-precision viewing experience with features like frame-accurate hover preview, scrub, zoom control, and mini maps. It also includes improved full-screen mode with commenting, zoom, and playback controls.
- Smooth Rendering: Enhancements in V4 include faster rendering, less buffering, and increased proxy quality and color accuracy for a smoother viewing experience.
Sharing and Feedback
- Shares: Users can preview, edit, and send professional-quality shares to stakeholders from a single view. This includes customizing branding, descriptions, and security settings for shares.
- Anchored Comments and Annotations: Users can leave precise, actionable feedback using anchored comments, attachments, and emojis. The platform also supports drawing annotations in full-screen mode.
Mobile and Cross-Platform Support
- iOS and iPadOS Apps: The V4 iOS and iPadOS apps bring the full Frame.io experience to mobile devices, allowing users to curate and send professional-quality shares, search for assets, and manage projects on the go.
Notifications and User Management
- Custom Notifications: Users can receive exactly the notifications they need, where and when they need them, across iOS, email, and in-app notifications.
- User Management: The platform allows for easy management of all users across the account from a single user table, including inviting users to workspaces or specific projects without needing to access account settings.
Additional Features
- Camera to Cloud: Supports uploads while recording, enhancing production-to-post efficiency.
- Webhooks and Audit Logs: For developers, Frame.io provides webhooks for leveraging events inside the platform and audit logs for tracking activities, which are accessible to admins.