Welcome back to MacBreak Studio. Today we're gonna look at Frame.IO. Which we took a look at a
few weeks ago with Sam Mestman. But Mark wants to show us the collaborative
aspects, actually the software itself.
Yeah actually, yeah. You did you guys did look at the app that launches
automatically when you have it installed. So that when you're in Final Cut Pro
it's a share destination, so you can share to Frame.IO and it pops up and you
can add metadata and a lot of great things with it. But there's another
aspect of the collaborative editing process, where you can use it as a review
tool that we have been using and Ripple Training has been using. And it is just great, it's
really saved us a lot of time in the review process. Tons of time, no more spreadsheets,
no more downloading files. We just do it all here now. It's fantastic. I been very
happy with it, I thought it'd be worth- I think you guys might find useful too. So,
Frame IO dot com. Sorry it's Frame.IO. This is what the interface looks
like. At the left hand side this is our Ripple account, it says Ripple there. If I click on that it
will close the projects. These are are some open projects that we're working on
right now. And adding a project as simple as clicking there, and you can add a
project depending on your plan. We'll talk a little bit more that later. You
can also hide all those projects by clicking the three dashes up there. And
then, here we have a bunch of clips we've already added to this project. You can
add more clips, by the way. not just by sharing from Final Cut Pro X, but you can
drag and drop existing files right in. A whole bunch of them, drag them in. H.264, if they're ProRes, it'll keep
them as ProRes, but you can also create H.264's for playback for you. And you
can create folders. We have here a folder here that has an additional set of movies in it.
So, pretty flexible. You can also share files, rather than having
somebody collaborate. In other words, having somebody use this interface in order
to make comments and review. If you just want to send a link to have them see the file
by itself, you can click this button right here. And you would enable sharing
by turning it on, and then it would provide a URL that you can copy the URL.
You could use whether it's password protected, and whether they could
download the file or not. And also give it some branding colors,
particular to your company. So nice feature there. You can hide the
settings, and click out of that. You can throw files away of course, and there's
where you can create folders. At the right hand side are a couple of useful tools. This
AZ is a sorting, and I have these sorted by name because we have these lessons for our
tutorial. These lessons for our "Getting Started in Production" tutorial, and
we used Frame.IO to review those lessons. One thing I would love, is if once you
choose a sorting option, is if it would stay that way for that particular
project. You have to reset it every time you jump back in. And if there are a lot of
projects you can have too little bit annoyance, but not a big deal. Then there's
a settings menu here, where you can name or rename your project, and choose who gets
notified; everyone or just me, depending on whether there's new comments or
new media, or somebody else joins the project, you get notified. And then, if you
do get notified, this little guy up here with the Lightning Bolt, will show that
you have notifications. It will light up. Yeah, you get an email, that will be lit up.
If you log back in to Frame.IO, you'll see in this project,
somebody has left comments on these seven movies. So it's time for me to get
busy reviewing those comments, and making my my edits. Right? So then at the right
hand side at the top is myself, I'll come back to that. There's some things you
can do in there, and then is our list of collaborators. Our collaborators are
people who can see particular projects- And who you've invited. And who you've
invited, yeah. There are team members, and their collaborators. Team members see
every project, so there's a Ripple team, but you can invite a collaborator, who only
sees that that particular project. And then they can look at the project, they
can add notes to it, and and do what we're gonna show in just a minute.
Adding a collaborator is as simple as clicking this button and adding an email address. Then
that collaborator does have to register with Frame.IO, but they don't pay anything.
They just have to be registered. So the clips themselves- what's really nice is there's
clip skimming. Yeah, a skimmer.
Skim through and see the content right away before you decide which to look at.
You can see the titles of the clips, the size of them, and whether there are comments.
You see this one here, has ten comments. Ok well, I'm gonna double click
on that one. And that'll bring it up in a start to cache it, and I'll pause play
back right here. And at the top left we can download that,
if we wanted, to have a local copy. And the top is not just the name of this
clip, but it also says version one ,and it was posted 13 days ago. And who posted it.
Right. So good information there, as well as, if there were other versions you
could see them here. How would you get another version? How would it know there's
another version? So, this is really cool: If you have an edited project, and you
post a version, and it so everyone makes comments, and you make a new version. You
can upload a new version, and then in the first screen, you just drag that new
version on top of the old version, and it'll put them together in that same
container. Interesting. So then, when you're in this view, those versions are
available from this pop-up menu. It could be one, two, three versions? Yeah
Is there a split-screen function, you can compare like shots? You can. You can actually hit the
S-key. There's keyboard shortcuts that enable split screen. I don't have a
separate version here- But that fact, that you can do it, is pretty cool. Yeah. It's
really nice to be able to do that. So, on the right here we have comments, which
you can show or hide. We another set of settings, here where there's-
If you don't like colors, like if you doing critical color correction, and you
don't like the purple in here, you can choose a grayscale mode. Which just gets
rid of some of the colors in here. So, these comments here
above them, you can show some additional info about the clip; its codec, and
resolution, and frame rate. And then these clips have already commented on. In fact you
see that all struck through. These are clips where I've made comments, you can see the
time code for each the comments. And you click these three dots, we can see they've
been marked complete. Which created the strike through. So if I chose unmark
complete, then it looks like it needs to be done. So the editor, once they read the
comments and they take care of them, they just mark them as complete and work
through it. It's perfect. And then they know it's done, I know it's done,
everybody knows that that particular things been addressed. And what's kinda neat
is, you noticed there's these little markers along the bottom. Little
white hash tags- As you hover over there with your mouse, it comes to that comment, right in the
panel. Yup, so one way to find a comment, is just a move to one of those,
and you see exactly what that comment is. I could click on it and it jumps to that. Or
you can click a comment over on the right, and the the playhead will jump to that.
By the way, this player you can use J-K-L, and you can tap Lt a few
times to play fast or faster. So you can speed through- I should point out that having a
fast connection, at least with this version is kind of important. There
are, I heard from Emery, that they're working on giving you the ability to
kind of the step down the quality, at some point. For a slow connection?
Right. So, if you want to add a comment in here,
if you want to add to add a comment anywhere. Let's just move along
somewhere. So let's say this shot right here, make the sky bluer. Okay, make sky bluer.
And I can add a comment, but before I do, I want to point out this little paint
brush. Because if I click on that, I get some options here. I get some color options,
and I get some different drawing tools. So I can say, you know, if it wasn't clear what
sky it was, that sky here. But I've been using a lot of these in our screenshots to highlight a
section like, hey you know, fix this right here. Clone out the truck.
The truck yeah. Get rid of the truck! And get rid of truck. And good luck with that by the way.
Okay, so I'll click submit, and that comment gets added right there. And we can see that
they're ready to go. So, super easy. One thing I would like, and Emery who runs Frame.IO said
they'll add this in a future version. Is making it clear that the comments are
done. Like when I'm commenting on a video, which you know how would the editor know
that I'm done reviewing? What if I took a break? So what I do right now, I have my
last comment says: "end of comments." Yeah, but they'll institute something where
you can sort of do a checkbox. Like, yeah, I've finished my review, and now I'm passing
it off to the editor or to another person to review. Because you can have
comments from any number of reviewers here.
The account executive, oh no! Yeah. So, producers and clients will love this,
editors may hate it. Because they can draw all over this screen, and they can
easily make tons of comments. So, it could be like ok, everybody wants to go ahead and make their
comments on your video now. But we've found it as a really indispensable tool
for reviewing the tutorials. I mean we started using it for all tutorials, right? You're using it
with all your editors and different projects. What are the payment
tiers? Sure, so let's go back to that. If I click on my name up here, there are
some account settings. And product update information, if there's something new
the support FAQ is pretty good. But if I go to upgrade, it brings up
the different options. There's monthly and yearly option. And there's a free
option, so if you just have one project, and you want to try it out, it's totally free.
So great for single project. $15 month for three projects. $25 a month for
unlimited projects, and and 50 gigs, I guess at a time. Because you can delete
old projects out of there. Still $25 a month for just the amount of time it saves it to me
a no-brainer. Yeah. I mean, I would say in a normal tutorial, where I've got to review
15 movies. A couple hours of movies. This probably saves me a couple of hours in
that process of going through taking notes, of not needing to switch back and
forth and write down time code and figure out where stuff is. This is, this
is a fantastic idea. Very, very cool, very useful. Thanks for taking us into the
busty innards.
My Star Wars reference again, for Frame.IO. Really useful hope you check it out. Download
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