Way to import Frame.io comments into Premiere
Frame.io is great, however using it for the first time on a commercial I think I've found a glaring issue...
Shoot in the US, edit in London. Director spends his entire flight from NY on Frame.io adding comments to the rushes: favourite takes etc.
Great I think, I've already imported the footage, I'll look for the 'import comments button' and when he gets here I'll have everything ready.
But no... nothing!
Turns out Frame.io can only syncronize comments from a sequence, not clips!
Now, I realise it's possible to view comments in the Frame.io panel, and that might be fine if it's only a couple, but 100+ comments, over 6 days worth of rushes, on a deadline, forget it!
Director's always make shot selections so it was inevitable they'd use Frame.io for exactly this.
Please please add this functionality. Should be easy now you own the company ;)
Dan Pearce
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If you import the clips from Frame after the comments have been added you will get the clip markers. But that not exactly the workflow you are describing. You want to keep clip markers in sync with Frame.io comments so that you can turn Frame.io comments into clip markers AFTER the file has already been imported into Premiere Pro - right? This a great point and something we will definitely be looking into.
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Dan Pearce
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Exactly right Francis - adding comments as clip markers to footage already imported into Pr.
It'd be really useful to have, as footage often gets imported into Pr before a shoot ends (syncing audio etc) and before the director/producers have had a chance to add their comments via Frame.io
p.s. It'd be great if we could globally search for those Markers, both in the Project panel and the Markers panel.