Media Uploader IOGates space

Hello Tobias,

I am in Burbank, CA. I'm working everyday on television, films. commericials... I'm fortunate enough to be working on multiple shows and films etc at a time from my home studio so i feel like I'm someone who is using programs like this a lot. I do understand that upload speed is a tricky thing and a lot of it is out of your hands but anything to speed that up would be great. As of now the Frame IO Transfer app seems to be the quickest uploader. Dropbox being second.

So I've tried, Vimeo, Dropbox Relay, Frame IO and now Soundflow Media Uploader. I'm assuming that Avid is at work on something like this, I could be wrong, but they would be silly not to. I do think all of them have good things and bad things but none of them really have everything. So in my opinion, without getting into too much detail this is what I would love to see...

• a decent storage option. Frame IO has 250gigs for $15 a month. That is a great deal. With that I can set up multiple shows and create folders for each episodes with folders in those for review videos, session data transfers (between my assistant or any other collaborator), final prints and anything else. With 250 gigs I can really work for months without having to constantly be deleting things and freeing up space. With 250gigs or so, I can get through an entire project or projects, then delete them when I'm done and start new projects and folders for the next set of projects.

• The ability to add a collaborator or assitant or someone else that can upload and download and share that folder for a reduced cost. Maybe they can't create folders or mange but upload and download. This would be enormously helpful for anyone who has an assistant. Frame IO offers this but you have to pay full price for that. Also, their terminology for "collaborators" and "groups" and all that is very confusing.

• The ability to bounce and upload not only movies for review but final stems. To be able to setup my bounce window and then have PT bounce and immediately upload to the preset folder would be amazing.

• The ability to set presets for group emails. Each project and really, each folder has different people associated with it. For instance, my post supervisor might be the one reviewing the .mov but once I'm done with changes and I upload prints, those will only go to AE's. Also, the mov review does not need to be downloaded (it should have that option) whereas the final prints obviously have to be downloaded by the AE's. Being able to set all that up on a per folder basis and save it and recall it with a one button preset would save a TON of time. As of now you can't do that in any program. I literally have to have a text doc for each group with their emails and copy paste that. I mean this is 2022 right?

• the ability to view all your "Projects" and folders in projects with all their info. Frame IO has this but if you start the name of your folder with SHOW_EP#_... then that's all you see. It is abbreviated and you can't see the suffix so you don't really know what folder is what. Being able to see the full name for each folder is very important.

• Having the ability to fully customize the bounce window for .mov's or obviously prints. For instance, I've been using the H.265 codec because it's a bit better compression and I'd like the client to see the best quality video that I have that I can reasonably upload in a short period of time. I should be able to select that and have the script reflect that.

• Obviously full screen or mostly full screen viewing with comments.

• A notification button for clients to click when they are done with the review so we don't have to do some coded thing. Ex, my post supervisor will always create a "thank you" comment in Frame IO to let me know that he is done. There should just be a button they can click that automatically sends to the "uploader" letting him know that that client is finished with an included clickable link that will drop those markers or clip regions directly into ProTools. Honestly I would never use the markers because I have so many markers already it would be tough to sift through them (I've wished that ProTools would have different marker tabs forever but oh well). Ideally clicking that link creates a new mono track in ProTools and puts down the clip region with the markers. Maybe even in "Large" view. At that point you would have basically one click to print and send and one click to receive comments and start working. 2 CLICKS. That is as minimal as it could be.

• Frame IO Slack integration is great as well. Maybe an ability to select where you want your notifications sent, text, email, slack, etc

• Having a downloadable doc to file away and reference if you feel you need to keep those notes. Maybe the notes also automatically get stored in the folder that the video lives in as well.

• Finally some very straightforward video on the sign up, set up, management and all that. Again, Frame IO is doing that as well but good luck following their videos. They are terribly done unfortunately.

So some of these are probably doable and some are not. If there was one program that had all this stuff it would make my life and I'm sure a lot of other mixer's lives much easier. I'm sure there are plenty of things I'm not even thinking of but I'm really glad you asked for my input. I wrote to Frame IO and asked to speak with one of their project specialists and they decliened which seemed incredibly silly. I hope this helps and I look forward to talking more. As of now I can't use the Beta because my clients want a big video to look at and after using Frame IO I don't think they will want to go backwards. Once you get the full screen ability I will happily switch over.
Thank you. Chris