We’ve got a complete overhaul of the Aframe dashboard coming soon. It gives you fast ordering and filtering of your projects to find exactly the one you’re looking for, and one click access to the most common functionality.
We’ve completely replaced our upload and ingest process. Upload is now backed by some fancy acceleration technology and ingest is much more robust. Your files will be transferred into Aframe’s cloud faster and more reliably. For bonus points, you can upload into multiple projects at the same time too.
A new security mechanism has just been added to shared links… The old style - unguessable links - has been joined by “require login”. This allows you to lock links to a specific email address only. Anyone viewing the link must be logged in to Aframe, have the correct email address on their account, and have proved that they own that address.
The “Status of your ingests and transcodes” page has just been given a lick of paint and a promotion. Hit “check ingest and transcode status” on the right hand side of your project’s footage section to follow along as your files (uploaded via FileCatalyst, FTP or the web) are ingested into Aframe and transcoded.
For bonus points, you can click on any of the items in the list to select them - so you can add them directly to a collection, share them or review them.
The thing that makes professional video on the internet hard is file size. To make working with your media as fast as possible we need to keep your files as close to you - geographically - as we can. With that in mind, we’ve installed data centres in New York and Los Angeles to complement our London infrastructure. This doesn’t mean that you won’t be able to get at your media from elsewhere, just that it’ll be a bit slower.
When creating a new project, you get to choose where you want your media to be stored, and in the projects dropdown you’ll see where each project is located. Your dashboard is now split across our locations too. We’ll be doing a bunch more work around this in the coming weeks.
Over longer distances, file transfer becomes an issue. Uploading via a web browser isn’t particularly practical for extremely large files - lacking both speed and robustness. After looking at a few options we’ve settled on FileCatalyst as our weapon of choice.
Full instructions are available for every project when you go to “add footage”.
We just pushed out an update to our team management feature.
* It tries to make the subscriptions/seats mechanic clearer.
* You mainly add people from your list of current seat occupants.
* You invite people by email address or username. Might need some more work to catch false positive matches on username.
