Just in case you thought Frame.io had already added a stack of features over the summer, Adobe is now highlighting all the new capabilities in the software, and not everything was talked about at IBC.
Adobe MAX is coming at the end of the month, so even though there is a sense of the company keeping its powder dry with major updates across its range to come there, there is still an impressively long list of new features that have been added to Frame.io over the summer.
It's characterising this as the Fall of Features (the Autumn of Attributes?), so without further ado, let's round them all up. Some of the following is known, a lot isn't. So, without further ado, here's what's coming:
Search now supports multiple metadata fields, including name, file type, project, status, keywords, and creator, as well as general phrases and titles. You can also search across multiple fields using commas (e.g., Audio, .wav, the phrase 'Needs Review'). Results appear instantly.
The Frame.io Premiere panel now includes a whole host of new features you can access without interrupting your workflow:
A Sequences tab for browsing Frame.io comments across all open Premiere projects.
A redesigned export modal with settings summary and direct upload to version stacks or new files.
Comment sync between Frame.io and Premiere markers.
Quick Share (coming soon) for direct sharing from inside Premiere.
Frame.io integrations with Zapier, Make, and Adobe Workfront Fusion now support the V4 API. This enables no-code development of automated workflows between Frame.io and apps such as Slack, Monday.com, Google Drive, Trello, and Adobe products.
Here are some pre-built templates to try out:
Zapier templates:
Make workflows:
Rating media in default Rating fields is now lightning-fast thanks to new keyboard shortcuts. Use number keys (1–5) to apply star ratings, or 0 to clear them. Arrow keys move to the next asset. This allows much faster review of large volumes of images and media.
Enter absolute or relative timecodes (e.g., +5) to jump directly to a specific frame. Useful for long videos or precise review.
Transcription now supports nine additional languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Polish, Greek, Czech, and Ukrainian. That now makes for 27 in total.
The new Captions Ingest feature allows importing external .srt or .vtt files, preserving translated subtitles and sound effects.
Users can now be @-mentioned in Shares even if they haven’t commented.
Share passphrases now support non-ASCII characters, including emojis and currency symbols.
The new side panel in the web app displays release notes and announcements without leaving the workspace.
You can now connect one read/write S3 bucket and multiple read-only S3 buckets. Media from all buckets appears in one interface with generated previews and proxies.
(Enterprise Prime feature.)
Upload to Frame.io from other apps via the Share Extension.
Global search now supports Status, Uploader, and Assignee fields.
Fixes for image annotations and improved upload reliability.
A few nice-to-have features here. You now have scrubbable thumbnails for multi-page documents, more specific error messages for locked/unlinked accounts, more accurate exported timecodes, and new metadata filtering options.
And finishing off with the traditional bug squashing, resolved issues include:
Caption duplication.
Flickering in the transcription panel.
Emoji errors in comments.
Closed caption visibility.
Viewer download links.
Drop frame handling.
Audio asset loading.