Frame.io and Lightroom
Apart from noticing that Adobe had acquired Frame.io 2-3 years ago, I’ve never investigated the product or gone beyond noting that it seemed to be a cloud-based team collaboration tool for multimedia assets (Frame.io’s Max presentation gives an idea of the product’s marketplace).
But this morning I did notice this intriguing tweet by Adobe’s Terry White about Frame.io’s C2C Camera to Cloud integration with LR. In short:
- If your camera can be connected to the internet, it may also have Frame.io installed.
- Once the camera is connected to Frame.io, new photos can be sent from the camera up to Frame.io’s cloud
- Selectively or automatically
- There’s a choice of file type
- Frame.io can now be linked to Adobe’s Lightroom cloud
- New photos in Frame.io are automatically imported into an Lightroom cloud account
- Lightroom cloud makes them available to the various Lightrooms including Classic
- Frame.io initially announced C2C last year and now seem to have a free basic use plan offering 2gb.
Terry showed the process using a Fuji X-H2S and with my Fuji X-T5 it only took me under 10 minutes to get up and running with these instructions from the X-T5 manualĀ .
I’m not sure I will ever need to use this in practice, but I think someone will, and they may well love the workflow. And it makes me think that if you can upload directly from a camera to Frame.io C2C, why can’t you do so directly to Lightroom Cloud?