Since the Frame IO v4 API only is available for enterprise customers, I am looking for an alternative. We are a small team, on a pretty tight budget. We don’t need a lot of fancy functions and features, just client review,comments and such. Anyone here got something they’re happy with?

Thanks Finn, Looks cool, but a bit too expensive for us. 349 euro vs. 83 euro for our current Frame IO plan.

they are going opensource soon, so I guess you could self-host it - soon for “free” Kitsu is another free option. biggest thing with frameIO for me is frameIO transfer as we also send masters through it also.

how do you get the media into Aquarium… There doesn’t seem to be any DCC publishing connections.

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they have a super easy and well documented API. I scan my published openclips every X seconds and if there is a change it encodes the daily (oiiotool+ffmpeg) and then uploads it to aquarium. its just a simple python script that I run as a service on my dailies-encoder VM. happy to show you its…

[image] vkastrup: Since the Frame IO v4 API only is available for enterprise customers, I am looking for an alternative. We are a small team, on a pretty tight budget. We don’t need a lot of fancy functions and features, just client review,comments and such. Anyone here got something they’re hap…

Is there anything you can do to improve the download speeds from it? It’s like sub 5MBs a sec in my experience.

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finnjaeger March 8, 2025, 7:58pm 2

same boat here.

We use aquarium interally for shot review and task management etc.

However their client review is not yet on the same level as frameIO.

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