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Enterprise Video Studio Streamlining Global Collaboration with Frame.io
Company Situation
The company operates an internal creative video studio within a larger enterprise environment, producing a wide range of video content that includes product overviews, demos, short-form documentaries, and branded storytelling. Their team is globally distributed, with members across multiple U.S. locations and international offices, including Southeast Asia. The creative team includes video editors, motion graphics specialists, and brand managers, working collaboratively on some of the company's largest video projects.
Existing Workflow
The company primarily uses Adobe Premiere for video editing and has recently adopted Frame.io for review and approval workflows, moving away from Vimeo due to scaling needs. Their asset storage and sharing infrastructure is a mix of Microsoft SharePoint, local RAID storage accessed via remote PCs, and disparate cloud solutions. However, SharePoint is unsuitable for large video files due to storage limitations. The team faces challenges in simultaneous multi-user access, especially with remote and international contributors. Asset management involves uploading and downloading files frequently, creating inefficiencies.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
Disparate toolsets requiring the team to switch between multiple platforms for storage, review, and collaboration.
Storage limitations and performance issues with SharePoint for large video files.
Remote access bottlenecks caused by local RAID and remote desktop setups, limiting simultaneous multi-user access.
Increased manual file transfers (upload/download), slowing down the creative process and complicating version control.
Challenges coordinating across global, distributed team members with inconsistent workflows and tool usage.
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade consolidates the company’s fragmented storage and collaboration tools into a single, unified platform. By integrating cloud storage, review and approval, and editing collaboration in one application, Shade eliminates the need to toggle between multiple systems. It supports multi-user access seamlessly, enabling the global team to collaborate in real-time without the constraints of local storage or remote desktop connections. Shade’s platform also enhances asset discoverability and streamlines review comments and versioning, all within the same environment used for editing and content management.
Benefits
- Unified platform for storage, review, and collaboration reduces tool switching and workflow friction.
- Scalable cloud storage solutions replace limited local or SharePoint capacity, supporting large video files.
- Real-time multi-user access improves collaboration across global teams without remote desktop dependency.
- Streamlined upload/download workflows reduce delays and improve version control.
- Enhanced integration with Adobe Premiere and other creative tools accelerates the editing and approval process.
- Improved cross-functional collaboration between editors, motion designers, and brand managers.