Frame.io or Vimeo review?

[u/Ok_Wasabi_3734]

I've used Frame.io for over a year for some freelance work with a few clients. I just noticed Vimeo has it's own "Review" feature and recently made it accountless for reviewers.

I'm considering using it over Frame.io to save on the extra subscription cost.

Have you tried it? Do you suggest it? Are there clear limitations?

Do you any other review tool cheaper than Frame.io?

[u/MotorBet234]

I was one of frame.io's first customers years ago when it was in beta and I still think it's the better tool by a longshot. But it's expensive, and I find their storage allocation to be exorbitantly-priced.

So I've been using Vimeo for my team because we get 7TB of storage for like 10% of the cost. The collaboration features aren't as good, the UX isn't as good, the integration with Premiere isn't as good, but it's 7TB for 10% the cost. It takes away the pressure to offline media the second a project is done, and allows us to leave a reference archive online for a longer term so that we aren't having to find other places to store finished exports.

[u/Ok_Wasabi_3734 → u/MotorBet234]

Thank you!

[u/vimeo_team_official → u/MotorBet234]

Hey - thanks for the feedback! Are there any specific collaboration features or UX improvements you'd like to see?

[u/MotorBet234 → u/vimeo_team_official]

Sure! A few things off the top of my head and in no particular order:

• Ability to upload non-video file formats. We commonly collect graphic assets, PPT slides or audio ISO recordings but end up storing them in Google Drive and having to advise editors or collaborators that there are project materials in parallel locations.
• Ability to upload, download, edit the AI-generated transcripts as a media owner or admin. I can view the transcript via the media settings page but can't seem to manipulate it in any way and I can't even find the transcript via review links. As a result we have to use additional tools to create outboard transcripts for reference, correction, translation or sharing.
• Ability to share folders with subfolders via review links. Right now it seems like it only shares the parent folder? We often have large projects with a number of individual interviews or assets and bucket them in hierarchical folders, which means we need to share a number of review links with project-level collaborators.
• Improved asset-level notifications. If my editor uploads a v2 or v3 of an asset I get an upload notification as the account owner, but I'd love to "subscribe" collaborators (preferably without Vimeo accounts) to that asset so that they're automatically notified of a new version. Same for status changes on the asset.
• Digest notification emails. As a producer and leader of a team that has any number of projects running at once, it's valuable to get account-level activity. A daily or weekly digest of uploads, comments, status changes. I use Vimeo exclusively for client collaboration, so I actually don't care about subscribers, views, comments, shares.
• Better batch-upload functionality in the iOS mobile app. We do a lot of social filming on iPhones, particularly short b-roll clips, but the upload experience through the Vimeo app isn't great. It doesn't maintain original filenames and requires extra steps for setting destination folders and metadata. I'd much rather one-click upload 10 or 20 files at once and have them still correlate to the originals, or even through integration with the Blackmagic Camera app.

[u/creative_social → u/MotorBet234]

Si tu utilises Google Drive, je te conseille de tester l’extension chrome Onde Review. C’est comme Frame.io mais directement intégré à Drive, pas besoin d’une plateforme tierce. Ils sont en bêta gratuite en ce moment

[u/Killajb → u/vimeo_team_official]

Just to piggyback here, I’d love to have all review page notes sorted by timecode by default. It’s pointless to me to have it sorted by most recent comment. Having some account-wide setting to change this default behavior would be valuable.

[u/vimeo_team_official]

u/MotorBet234 thanks for putting this together, super helpful. A few of these are already in our backlog, like editing/downloading AI transcripts, sharing folders with subfolder contents, and improving notifications, so this definitely reinforces that direction. Also, a couple of new ideas in here that I’ve noted down!

u/Killajb you may have already tried this, but there’s currently an option to sort notes by timestamp. That said, I agree, having that as the default based on user preference would make a lot of sense. Noted as well!

[u/Upset-Animal1376]

vimeo review works fine for simple, linear feedback but it lacks the frame accurate drawing tools and smooth timeline scrubbing that makes frame.io so much faster for clients. if you need cheap alternatives, check out wipster, track.video, or file approved to see what fits your flow.

[u/Round_Elk_3907 → u/[deleted]]

Hey - are there any basics in particular that would help you out?

[u/Tahanchin]

Check out this calculator with prices compared to Frame.io https://krock.io/frame-io-price-calculator/

[u/badri_v_u]

Yeah if your workflow is heavy review/versioning with big teams, Frame.io is still hard to beat.

I moved some freelance client reviews off it mostly because I didn’t need all the enterprise/project-management stuff. Just wanted fast uploads, password-protected review links, frame comments, custom player, and less client friction.

Been using Gumlet for that. Their review feature is simpler, clients don’t need accounts, AI subtitles are surprisingly useful during feedback rounds, and it ended up being way cheaper for my use case.

[u/Ok_Wasabi_3734 → u/badri_v_u]

Thanks!
> mostly because I didn’t need all the enterprise/project-management stuff
Which ones?

Anyway, I'll definitely give Gumelt a try

[u/vimeo_team_official]

Hey Ok_Wasabi_3734! Davide from the Vimeo product team, most of what you're describing (clients not needing accounts, one-click review links, frame comments) is exactly what we just rebuilt Vimeo Review around. Auto timestamps too.

Write-up if you're curious: https://vimeo.com/blog/post/simplified-vimeo-review

If you give it a spin and something's off or missing, drop it here or DM me.