I have built a free Frame.io replacement
But I don’t have docs yet, I have a YT video coming out tomorrow.
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Oh cool. Looking forward to seeing more about this. Thanks.
@vkastrup check this out here, would love your feedback
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I find it pretty amazing, that a YouTube spammer, found this community and posted actually contextual bait.
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I’m not a YouTube spammer, I built a free tool for people suffering from Frame API issues and costs and built a free tool. So I was search in Google for people that were having issue to let them know.
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Be nice @ALan, we have guests.
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@stephengpope your post has been restored as it is of course relevant to those in our community seeking DIY Frame.io alternatives.
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@ALan checkout the tool, it’s pretty cool and free.
what is the M&E market?
v2 endpoints are still working AS LONG as you don’t upgrade to v4. Then it will break.
Media and Entertainment – typically in the long form, episodic and commercial markets although those traditional lines are definitely blurring.
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got it thanks.
I am in the M&E market then, just heavily in the automation side.
I’ve also create a free tools that move around large files in the cloud s3, google drive, and transcribe content, captions, cut/merge video/audio, etc.
happy to answer questions.
Won’t have time to check it out until after NAB.
I assume you have to bring your own cloud infrastructure? Which cloud platforms does it work with?
How does the pricing compare to FrameIO once you bring your own Cloud infrastructure, given that we don’t get the big discounts, but can use it metered rather the peanut buttered?
This is going nowhere guys, but have fun. I’ll ignore this thread now.
@ALan bye
@allklier you do need your own cloud server, or docker host.
But it works on any of them, Digital Ocean is one of the easiest to setup. Then you only pay the raw costs of the services, for the server (can be the smallest one) it’s just a front end.
And then you just pay for the space you use (no markup like on frame).
And there is obviously no per user fee.
The toolkit also has a bunch of other hosted APIs to manipulate audio/video.
Happy to answer any other questions.
Yes, the key is a apples-apples comparison. If you have a busy month with big client uploads and large reviewer count, what does that raw cost amount to?
You have to keep the instance up and scaled because you never know when someone is ready to look and leave notes.
Sometimes you may come out ahead, other times not. Our raw cost rates are higher than what Adobe pays.
And you have factor in admin time.
I remember during the pandemic hosting a homegrown solution for an agency shoot. And while shooting on location, I had to take breaks and be IT support because one of the agency folks had problems with their browser. Imagine, you’re in a client session for Flame and some other client sends you urgent texts because something is wrong with the instance, or you guessed capacity wrong. You can pick which client you piss off, but it will be at least one. And you can’t blame it on Adobe then.
I think the savings would have to be substantial for this to make sense IRL. Which is why we would need to see those numbers.
It’s cool to have options, but outside curiosity and ultra-low budget fliers, I’m very skeptical.
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And @randy, I was just checking the API docs, and this toolkit has APIs to transcode videos and audio files, add captions, etc.
It’s not a solution for replacing FrameIO unless you put some serious coding effort in, which may include these APIs but also a lot more.
So it’s not a crypto scam or the like, but it’s also not really relevant to this discussion or our community for the most part. It is a legit effort to share APIs, but also a bit more of a carpet bombing sales tactic rather than understanding our specific use cases and being actually helpful.
Do with that whatever seems reasonable.
Thanks Stephen.
It looks like one would have to put in quite a bit of work to get a reasonable frontend for browsing projects and viewing / commenting on more than one clip in a session.
one would also have to manage multiple accounts for all the online tools (and potentially pay for some of those), so for a small team or single user, this is maybe going to take up too much time to manage.
Hard to tell if it would be worth the savings, if any.
I think the convenience of not having to manage the backend, is what makes Frame io great. Just sad that all my automation went away when the cut API access.
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@allklier you can look up the numbers on the given platform you might use on their pricing page.
You’re mistaken that any work or coding would need to be done, it’s already fully built out, ready to roll.
@vkastrup yea sure, happy to help.
How much it takes to manage depends on your automation skills, you could deploy it for < $5.
It is designed for those with some tech skill, I can see how it would be harder for some, and then maybe not worth it. But we run a very heavily automated Frame solution and the lack of an API totally breaks.