LucidLink Connect for Frame.io: from camera to timeline, faster

Frame.io has long been the standard for Camera-to-Cloud, dailies, and review and approval. 

LucidLink Connect expands on this workflow to encompass your entire production pipeline.

Most large-scale productions rely on various specialized storage locations: 

• Proxies and dailies in Frame.io

• Archival footage in S3 buckets 

• Audio libraries in OneDrive 

• Graphics in Dropbox folder 

While each system works well on its own. Together, they create a fragmentation problem that slows every edit.

Getting from ingest to first cut means hunting assets across platforms. And when you do find them, you’re managing endless downloads, transfers, storage duplication and relinking files that were never in the same place to begin with.

The timeline might be waiting, but your assets aren’t ready. 

LucidLink Connect changes that.

Everything your project needs, in one place

LucidLink Connect brings your Frame.io footage together with the rest of your production assets.

Editors no longer need to waste hours hunting across systems. LucidLink Connect brings Frame.io and your supporting cloud drives into one unified filespace, without moving, migrating or duplicating a single file. 

As soon as on-set footage hits Frame.io via Camera-to-Cloud (C2C) it appears instantly in LucidLink alongside your production assets stored in your external cloud drives.

Instead of being locked to a rigid folder structure, teams can curate custom data views across all these disparate sources, structured around how you actually work. 

Best of all, because LucidLink Connect acts as an access layer, your underlying external cloud drives stay untouched. Your existing storage setups, paths and permissions remain exactly as they are, ready to edit in Premiere Pro, Resolve or Avid.

Take a closer look at how LucidLink Connect combines with Frame here.

Stop downloading. Start working.

Large media files have always come with a tradeoff: quick access or performance.

LucidLink Connect removes that tradeoff.

Files are streamed on demand at a granular level. Only the exact bytes needed for playback, scrubbing or editing are fetched, exactly when they’re needed.

Editors get instant playback and smooth timeline scrubbing on massive files, from the moment footage lands. 

There’s no need to sync entire folders or projects just to find one clip, or move files closer to compute. Zero-migration streaming means you work directly with your data where it already lives.

Real-time collaboration across teams

Productions span teams, locations and time zones.

It’s not unusual for editors, assistants, motion designers and audio engineers to be working on projects concurrently from multiple time zones. This set up inherently adds complexity to workflows. 

LucidLink Connect makes global collaboration simpler by giving everyone access to the exact same files, instantly. Today’s dailies, historical B-roll, audio, graphics and archives all become accessible together. 

That means no more passing media back and forth, managing duplicate drives or waiting overnight for downloads.

Built for complex production environments

Production infrastructure at scale is rarely simple. Teams accumulate storage systems, MAMs, DAMs, rendering pipelines and archive environments over time.

Rebuilding that from scratch isn’t realistic. That’s why LucidLink Connect is designed to fit into your existing stack rather than replace it. 

Automation and flexible APIs give teams granular permission control, consistent access to assets and workflows that move smoothly across systems. For media operations and pipeline teams, this means existing storage investments stay intact, but your distributed production workflow becomes much easier to manage at scale.

The Frame.io workflow is the first example of what's possible with LucidLink Connect. More workflows and integrations are on the way.

Available now for enterprise accounts

The LucidLink Connect for Frame.io workflow is available now for enterprise accounts.

It's purpose-built for video teams, post-production operations and the IT pipeline engineers who support them. 

If your production runs across Frame.io and other cloud storage environments, and your editors spend meaningful time tracking down assets before they can cut, Connect is made for you.

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