Working with versions - Frame.io Tutorial

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take a look at versioning inside of Frame.io. You may have remembered in an earlier movie, we actually uploaded a sequence from Premier Pro and versioning works in a bunch of non-linear editors and the way that we set it up is essentially you upload a sequence or a project to Frame.io. Let's say someone makes comments. The editor then makes changes inside of his nonlinear editor, uploads a new version, and by stacking two videos together you're able to go back and track the process of all the changes that you've made. Now let's just take a look at how we can do this inside of Premier Pro, but keep in mind you can do similar things inside of DaVinci Resolve as well as Final Cut Pro. So I'm now inside of Premier Pro and I'm in the Frame.io integration project if you have access to the exercise files. You can see that I'm looking at the Frame.io panel, 'cause I've opened the extension, and I'm currently inside the violinist project where I can see the original sequence that I uploaded. You may remember that I created some comments on this video, three in particular. So the first thing I want to do is actually right-click this project and choose to import those comments into my current open sequence inside of Premier Pro. I can of course double-click on what is now a marker, seeing that I need to make a color correction adjustment based on the person who left this comment. So what I'll do is use my Lumetri Color panel over here to the side and just add a creative look. So I'll just apply that to the video. And let's just say that this is the only change that I'm going to make right now. What I'll do is go inside the Frame.io panel and upload my active sequence. What this is going to do is give me a few options so you can see the format is 720. I'm going to use the in and out range. There's no in and out marker, so I'll just get the entire timeline. And most important, I'm going to use this auto versioning. I'll choose to upload this file and you'll see here that what it's going to do is use Media Encoder to render your timeline. It opens in the background. And it's going to upload that sequence to Frame.io. After the upload is complete for the Frame.io sequence for frame version, you'll see that the two versions are stacked together and identified by this number. If I choose to double-click on the sequence for frame, currently I'm able to see version two. If I needed to see a previous version, on the top middle of the clip I can hold down this dropdown and be able to see my version one of the clip. Now in the event that you're versioning doesn't take place through the Premier Pro integration, you can actually do a manual stacking inside of the web version of Frame.io. So here you can see the new sequence that I just uploaded from Premier Pro inside the browser version. And what I'm going to do is just take this video and drag it on top of the original sequence that I uploaded. You'll see a little plus icon show up, and once I release, I now have a version stack. If I double-click in here, you'll see here that it will first of all load the version two of the video on the top left-hand corner. If I wanted to see the version one, I could click on it. And as you can see, here are the original comments such as needs color correction. And here is the option to see version two. BY simply just clicking on it, since I just uploaded it it's still calculating it here. My favorite option that's available for versioning is having a compare version view. By clicking on that, you'll notice you'll see each version side by side. And in fact what we can see is compare one version to the other based on the time code and see the changes that have been potentially made in terms of the order of clips within our sequence. This can be really handy to make sure that everything is kept from one video to the other or to see if there were unwanted changes within a video. Now as I've mentioned in other NLEs this is available too. I'll just hop into Final Cut Pro 10 briefly. This is where we originally added our markers, and just to let you know that when you decide to share a new project with Frame.io, which you can do such as an H264 version, after I choose this next button to share it with Frame.io, you'll see this other window pop up showing me some timeline settings and that auto versioning is also enabled. And that is how versioning works inside of Frame.io.