At Backblaze, we love hearing from our customers about their unique and varied storage needs. Our media and entertainment customers have some of the most interesting use cases and often tell us about their workflow needs moving assets at every stage of the process, from camera to post-production and everywhere in between.
The desire to have more flexibility controlling data movement in their media management systems is a consistent theme. In the interest of helping customers with not just storing their data, but using their data, today we are publishing a new open-source custom integration we have created for Frame.io. Read on to learn more about how to use Frame.io to streamline your media workflows.
What is Frame.io?
Frame.io, an Adobe company, has built a cloud-based media asset management (MAM) platform allowing creative professionals to collaborate at every step of the video production process. For example, videographers can upload footage from the set after each take; editors can work with proxy files transcoded by Frame.io to speed the editing process; and production staff can share sound reports, camera logs, and files like Color Decision Lists.
The Backblaze B2 Custom Action for Frame.io
Creative professionals who use Frame.io know that it can be a powerful tool for content collaboration. Many of those customers also leverage Backblaze B2 for long-term archive, and often already have large asset inventories in Backblaze B2 as well.
What our Backblaze B2 Custom Action for Frame.io does is quite simple: it allows you to quickly move data between Backblaze B2 and Frame.io. Media professionals can use the action to export selected assets or whole projects from Frame.io to B2 Cloud Storage, and then later import exported assets and projects from B2 Cloud Storage back to Frame.io.
How to Use the Backblaze B2 Custom Action for Frame.io
Let’s take a quick look at how to use the custom action:
As you can see, after enabling the Custom Action, a new option appears in the asset context dropdown. Once you select the action, you are presented with a dialog to select Import or Export of data:
After selecting Export, you can choose whether you want just the single selected asset, or the entire project sent to Backblaze B2.
Once you make a selection, that’s it! The custom action handles the movement for you behind the scenes. The export is a point-in-time snapshot of the data from Frame.io—which remains as it was—to Backblaze B2.
The Custom Action creates a new exports folder in your B2 bucket, and then uploads the asset(s) to the folder. If you opt to upload the entire Project, it will be structured the same way it is organized in Frame.io.
How to Get Started With Backblaze B2 and Frame.io
To get started using the Custom Action described above, you will need:
- A Frame.io account.
- Access to a compute resource to run the custom action code.
- A Backblaze B2 account.
If you don’t have a Backblaze B2 account yet, you can sign up here and get 10GB free, or contact us here to run a proof of concept with more than 10GB.
What’s Next?
We’ve written previously about similar open-sourced custom integrations for other tools, and by releasing this one we are continuing in that same spirit. If you are interested in learning more about this integration, you can jump straight to the source code on GitHub.
This follow-up post dives into more of the technical details, discussing how we secured the solution, how we made it deployable anywhere (including to options with free bandwidth), and how you can customize it to your needs.
We would love to hear your feedback on this integration, and also any other integrations you would like to see from Backblaze. Feel free to reach out to us in the comments below or through our social channels. We’re particularly active on Twitter and Reddit—let’s chat!
