2018 could also be coming to a detailed however Body.io is simply getting began. This wonderful rocket ship of a journey is due to everybody who has believed in our imaginative and prescient and supported us alongside the best way.
In 2018, the filmmaking business voted with their {dollars} and the message was clear: video collaboration and workflow administration are a necessary a part of the toolkit to construct your small business and do your absolute best work. Body.io has been the workbench that has enabled practically 2/3 of 1,000,000 creatives to appreciate their imaginative and prescient and get their initiatives over the end line. Let’s have a look again at every part we shipped in 2018.
Typically the largest modifications in a software program platform go unnoticed. Like a terrific visible impact, they draw you in and enhance your expertise with out drawing consideration to themselves. The identical might be stated for Body.io in 2018.
We overhauled every part beneath the hood…and I’m speaking every part. Code high quality issues and whereas it’s not essentially the most marketable, it makes every part you do in Body.io higher. Our complete backend and API was re-written from scratch within the Elixir programming language and our database was migrated to PostgreSQL. We re-wrote the frontend within the open supply framework React.js.
We additionally re-wrote all of the of real-time infrastructure so you possibly can see when somebody is importing, when a brand new remark is available in, when you’ve got a brand new notification, and even when somebody is actively watching a video. Meaning you’re by no means viewing stale knowledge.
Code high quality is all properly and good, however even throughout this large infrastructure funding yr, we have been capable of ship a ton of recent options…
macOS menu bar app with watch folders
We heard from clients everywhere in the world who needed a greater strategy to deal with very massive uploads. Our macOS companion app affords the quickest and most resilient strategy to add on the net, interval.
Body.io for Remaining Lower Professional X
After greater than a yr of shut collaboration with Apple, 2018 noticed the launch of our Frame.io Workflow Extension for Final Cut Pro. It is a first of its type extension that brings all of the collaboration capabilities of Body.io, immediately inside Remaining Lower Professional.
All new media evaluate enhancements
2018 introduced a slew of enhancements to enhance the evaluate expertise for creators, shoppers, and collaborators. These embody: 4k video playback, GIF assist, and high-res picture evaluate on internet and iOS.
At Body.io we have now a deep-rooted perception within the energy of nice design. It’s what led to our Apple Design award for our iOS app. However, we’re not content material with resting on our laurels, so we created the Body.io Vapor Design System.
Impressed by world-class endeavors like Google’s Materials Design system, and Apple’s Human Interface pointers, our Vapor Design System is smooth as all hell, nevertheless it additionally units a stable basis for our design and engineering groups to maneuver a lot quicker. We’re all the time making an attempt to push the boundaries of internet design with aesthetics and ease of use, and what you see within the app at this time is a results of our Vapor Design System.
An entire record of product enhancements and updates
All of this work took a number of months and it was no small feat, however the impression was large. (If you happen to’re so impressed, comply with the adventures of our engineering workforce on Medium.)
We already deliver you a number of the most in-depth, sensible, and tactical training and insights about post-production proper right here on our weblog. However we didn’t cease there.
We wrote the guide on post-production workflow…actually. We spent a number of months and collaborated with the world’s most good post-production minds to create this large on-line useful resource. With contributions from RED, Adobe, Defacto Sound, Lumaforge, and lots of extra world-class professionals, the Frame.io Workflow Guide incorporates over 100,000 phrases on every part it’s good to know, from seize to supply. It’s arguably essentially the most complete useful resource of its type on the web.
We overhauled security. This isn’t the attractive work nevertheless it’s the important work. With a multi-million greenback funding in safety infrastructure, Body.io has grow to be the safe platform to work on even essentially the most delicate pre-release theatrical content material. We went deep on compliance and achieved SOC 2 Sort 1 compliance together with TPN compliance, the brand new world commonplace in content material safety.
- We grew from 50 workers to 85
- 275,000 new creators signed up
- 12.4M property uploaded (5.6 Petabytes of storage)
- 8.8 million feedback exchanged
- Half 1,000,000 movies accepted
- 3 billion API requests
- 1.3 million transcode duties
- 530 bugs resolved
- 421 code deploys
- Based on Google, Body.io grew twice as quick as our subsequent closest competitor
Now we have a imaginative and prescient for the way forward for post-production. With our new foundations in place, we’re trying ahead to crushing 2019. Hope to see you all there.
Emery Wells
CEO, Body.io
