If there’s one overarching theme for our IBC product bulletins this yr it’s “Frame.io meets you where you are.” And that’s why we will’t wait to satisfy you in Amsterdam to indicate you, in individual, what we’ve been engaged on since we noticed you final yr.
The Frame.io imaginative and prescient has all the time been to empower creatives so you’ll be able to work extra effectively and keep within the inventive circulate. For this IBC, we’re releasing new options and asserting partnerships designed to assist groups customise their workflows to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for brand spanking new content material throughout each phase of the trade.
The headlines: You can now join your personal enterprise cloud storage to Frame.io; our improved side-by-side comparability viewer now helps movies, photos, PDFs, audio recordsdata, and design recordsdata, making it even simpler to evaluation (and approve) your belongings; and we have now new Camera to Cloud integrations for video and images groups.
Of course, we’ll be within the Adobe sales space so you’ll be able to try the brand new options and enhancements to Premiere Pro and After Effects, too. If you’re already a Creative Cloud subscriber, there’s a lot new to like. And in case you’re not (but), this could be the time to strive them out.
Introducing Frame.io Storage Connect
Many of you’re employed in giant organizations with tons of, and even 1000’s, of customers. This announcement is very for you.
Frame.io Storage Connect now lets clients with Enterprise plans connect your self-governed AWS S3 storage to Frame.io. With Storage Connect, whenever you add media to Frame.io on a pc, a cellular machine, or by way of Camera to Cloud, your authentic belongings and media will journey on to your group’s storage. Frame.io robotically generates and shops your entire proxies and metadata in our cloud so creatives and stakeholders have the identical lightning-fast entry to them. The better part is that the Frame.io person expertise isn’t any totally different from what you’ve come to count on. Uploading, transcoding, navigating, and sharing operates simply because it did earlier than—with 100% efficiency parity.
“The Frame.io user experience is no different from what you’ve come to expect.”
With no change in how (or how briskly) you’re employed, your org can simply scale and make petabytes of pre-existing media out there to as many customers as you want. Enterprises can use Frame.io whereas staying in sync with their firm’s normal working procedures, safety protocols, and governance. Storage Connect additionally permits clients to manage their storage prices by connecting their very own inexpensive AWS S3 storage on to Frame.io. Our options architects will even make it easier to configure and check this new circulate. You can even guide a demo here.
Over time, extra clouds will turn into out there, together with superior options like deduplication. If you’re a part of a corporation by which safety, governance, scalability, and price financial savings are paramount, you’ll be able to learn more about Frame.io Storage Connect here.
Enhanced Review and Approval
An growing variety of our clients create content material for an enormous array of functions from broadcast to manufacturers. That’s why we’ve refreshed our evaluation and approval instruments for creators who work with a variety of belongings and wish to match them.
The side-by-side comparability viewer that debuted for photos and images at NAB 2023 newly helps video, PDF, and audio belongings. Now, all Frame.io customers can evaluate any two matching asset varieties with entry to commenting and annotations, conserving you within the dialog as you rigorously think about two totally different belongings, or variations of an asset.
Until now, evaluating two PDF or audio belongings aspect by aspect wasn’t doable and when evaluating movies customers have been unable to entry feedback or annotations. This enchancment to comparisons supplies extra nuanced evaluation and approval capabilities for creatives and stakeholders who have to work sooner and extra effectively.
There’s additionally a brand new function that permits you to evaluate any two matching belongings in a folder through the use of the right-click menu. And, as all the time, you’ll be able to evaluate two matching belongings in a model stack.
With this improved workflow it’s now simpler to evaluation all of the belongings related to a deliverables bundle, from movies and one-sheets to sound results and on-line catalogs, whereas guaranteeing that every one your collateral—irrespective of the format—seems constant.
C2C: Atomos, Fujifilm, and Accsoon
Our partnership with Atomos final yr has already enabled timesaving Camera to Cloud workflows for sports activities groups, information retailers, broadcasters, and live-event producers. For IBC 2023, we’re thrilled to announce that the brand new Atomos Ninja 5” HDR video monitor and recorder and Ninja Ultra succeed the Ninja V and Ninja V+, respectively. In addition to a recent new look, they’ve highly effective new options for Atomos customers and each are C2C appropriate with the prevailing Atomos Connect module.
But the Ninja Ultra brings a number of essential (and much-requested) upgrades to C2C customers. First, the Ninja Ultra has the flexibility to report as much as 4K ProRes RAW on to the machine whereas concurrently importing light-weight HD H.265 proxies to Frame.io for fast enhancing and straightforward relinking. Or, for individuals who don’t wish to offline and on-line, the Ninja Ultra can be able to domestically recording and importing high-quality, light-weight 4K H.265 clips as much as 60p on to Frame.io as quickly because the digital camera cuts—no relinking needed. Also, matching filenames over SDI from fashionable ARRI, Canon, RED, and Sony cameras permits for a easy OCF (authentic digital camera file) and Atomos recorded proxy workflow.
As a reminder, the Atomos Shogun Connect (an all-in-one built-in machine) and the Zato Connect (the ultra-affordable monitor/streaming unit), each of which we launched in 2022, are nonetheless fashionable, out there, and C2C appropriate.
Meanwhile, our companions at Fujifilm are constructing on the award-winning in-camera integrations with Frame.io that we launched at NAB 2023; they’re including the brand-new 102MP large-format FUJIFILM GFX100 II (pronounced GFX100 the second) to the household of Camera to Cloud-supported cameras.
Its predecessor, the large-format GFX100, is the digital camera of alternative for a lot of portrait, panorama, and architectural photographers. Now, with the GFX100 II, creators can entry the Camera to Cloud workflow while not having extra equipment just like the battery grip/WiFi module required for the FUJIFILM X-H2 and X-H2S.
The GFX100 II boasts a 55mm CMOS II HS sensor (11648 x 8736 pixel), and might ship 102-MP RAW, JPEG, TIFF, and HEIF images on to Frame.io. It additionally handles 422 10-bit 8K ProRes HQ video as much as 30p and 4:2:2 12-bit 4K ProRes HQ video as much as 60p. Utilizing an exterior recorder, GFX100 II can seize 4:2:2 12–bit ProResRAW and Blackmagic RAW, extending its video capabilities.
New to the Camera to Cloud household is Accsoon, who unveils the SeeMo and SeeMo Pro units. Both permit videographers, journalists, and information groups to make use of iPhones or iPads as skilled video monitoring units with options just like these supplied by Atomos, BlackMagic Design, or SmallHD.
The SeeMo, ultimate for mirrorless cameras, attaches to cameras by way of HDMI. The heavier-duty SeeMo Pro attaches by way of HDMI or SDI and is ideal for ENG and mid-range cine cameras. With the brand new C2C integrations each mean you can monitor, report, and add light-weight HD H.264 video clips out of your linked iPhone or iPad on to Frame.io.
These units present another for broadcasters, newsrooms, and sports activities groups who want a easy technique to join distributed digital camera groups or journalists to post-production—whether or not for immediate video enhancing or expediting content material destined for social media.
Updates to Premiere Pro and After Effects
Speaking of expediting the content-creation pipeline, there are massive updates to Premiere Pro and After Effects designed to extend pace and stability.
AI-powered Text-Based Editing has already earned the celebrated Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Award for Engineering Excellence. Originally launched in May, it makes enhancing video so simple as copying and pasting textual content. The latest updates, featured at IBC, take the performance a step additional by eradicating filler phrases like ums and uhs with a single click on, and permitting you to work with multi-channel audio recordsdata. There’s additionally a brand new de-noising function that improves the standard of voice recordings so dialogue sounds as if it was recorded in an expert studio.
A newly simplified colour workflow consists of higher-quality tone mapping, consolidated settings in Lumetri, and improved LUT administration and relinking—there’s even a gamma repair for Quicktime. All of this makes it simpler so that you can produce your finest work with out additional, difficult steps.
Adobe has been taking the suggestions of Premiere Pro customers to deal with a few of their high requests. The Premiere Pro timeline is now 5x sooner, and the brand new Effects Manager enables you to rapidly troubleshoot and discover incompatible plugins to enhance system stability. There are additionally plenty of smaller (however extremely helpful) enhancements like new challenge templates, customized export places, the flexibility to protect folder constructions as bins on import, new MOGRT administration instruments, and extra.
The highlights for After Effects embrace true 3D compositing and movement graphics with the flexibility to import, texture, mild, shade, and render 3D fashions within After Effects. And the modern new Sensei AI mannequin, mixed with Roto Brush enhancements and masks refinement instruments, enables you to minimize out objects sooner and extra precisely—even after they comprise arduous to isolate components similar to overlapping limbs, hair, and clear objects. There are additionally enhancements for motion-graphics designers like up to date presets and proportional guides.
Work the way in which you wish to
At a time when there are such a lot of new applied sciences and techniques, Frame.io is extra dedicated than ever to offering the platform that allows you to work the way in which you need, utilizing the instruments you like. We’re right here to combine into your workflow by permitting groups of all sizes and shapes to centralize their belongings and their suggestions, irrespective of the place on this planet they’re.
So we hope you’ll allow us to meet you at IBC. We’ll be in Hall 7, sales space #7.B35 to reply your questions and study extra about you. We know that no two workflows are precisely alike, so we wish to make it easier to discover the best options to your specific wants! And in case you’re on the present, it’s not too late to book a meeting with us for a non-public have a look at our new product bulletins.
