ftrack

Vorteile

Ftrack is very powerful and highly customizable which makes it an amazing tool for project management. What stood out for me is the fact that you can either see all of your project in 1 view or select which projet(s) you want to see and manage. Additionally, their reviewing tool, for both images and motion, is very efficient. It was built for collaboration in mind and you can tell!

Nachteile

Because of it's customization capabilities, there's a bit of a learning curve to learn your way around the software. Additionally, the notification center could be improved. While it works and do the job fine, it's not as fluid as other internal communication tool that I'm using. A desktop app would be an amazing addition.

Vorteile

The Project Management is great and the Client Reviews have been instrumental.

Nachteile

The UI wasn't user friendly at first, this took some time. Documentation could be more elaborated as well, sometimes it's too simplistic or doesn't cover everything. A separate area of our business liked the old on-prem installation more than the current but that may be because of company policies and our own limitations.

Vorteile

Good resource visibility and tasks overview. Like that a lot is customisable and can be adjusted to different needs. Good interface.

Nachteile

Hard to navigate sometimes with too many clicks. Wish a lot more fields and areas could be customisable or at least easier to customise by anyone, rather than only an IPA developer. Review system, particularly the client one to be more user friendly (look out for Proof HQ). Wish that Asset Builds could be managed in a centralised system outside of each individual projects and then linked to individual projects.
Client Facing Project plans, with clear actions for clients.

Vorteile

Filtering and version control are genious
Overview and dashboards are great
Actions and ability to customise product with it

Nachteile

DCC integrations are poor. Project navigation inside the integrations are terrible. No filtering / search available
No asset Management / Asset Loader provided
Houdini integration doesn't have an installer at all^ documentation is not actual
Files and components management system could be better
Multiple Reviewable components / preview images are needed
Lack of PDF support
Limited interface customization possibilities
Notes and internal communication functionality is poor (f.e. user mentioning, rich text support, attachments copy-paste, limited formatting options e.t.c.)
Pooк Connect Application functions

Vorteile

Customisation of tasks, to tweak things so it works perfect for us. Reviews of videos with multiple people

Nachteile

It’s fairly complicated for new users, and there seems to be bugs in the time tracking side of things that have been there for years

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Vorteile

Its ease of use... being able to schedule, track and review all projects is critical for an animation studio. Being able to then supply the client a review to feedback and the whole team seeing it means it reduces bottlenecks and timelines.

Nachteile

Its hard to find TD's to help implement some extra workflow features, and I wish the review system was more like syncsketch for more technical animation feedback, this would be more for internal reviews as clients wouldn't need that feedback tool. Apart from that its been brilliant.

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Vorteile

The system by tasks as cards. The learning curve. The filters and
customizable on each part of ftrack. In 5 hours you are working with that

Nachteile

The quality of the player. Not good at all, for vfx supervision need to download the origin. In softs like frame IO you can decide the quality of the video.

Vorteile

I can efficiently look at the task assigned to me and prioritize my work.

Nachteile

i would like to be able to turn off the notification that affect a scene but is not related to my task on that scene

Vorteile

Ftrack helped us a lot to manage the critical projects in this hard time of pandemic. Remote work made possible with this software to keep business running. I love the all-in-one features where I can upload preview, review it, manage the files and versions, keep track of time bid and may more tools.

Nachteile

This software is almost perfect. I think, Uploading video via f-connect does not show the progress. No Idea why we remove the collaboration option from video review panel. It was way better than sharing screen on Skype or Teams.

Vorteile

Easy to use product, very clear UI on project management.

Nachteile

Sometimes the product feels too complex and I havent figure it out yet

Vorteile

Il permet d'améliorer la productivité, de réduire les erreurs et de garantir une meilleure coordination dans des projets complexes. En plus de ça, ils incluent la gestion efficace des ressources, le suivi du temps, la collaboration en équipe, la planification de projets, et la gestion des actifs.

Nachteile

Je trouve que la personnalisation des flux de travail et des fonctionnalités est limité par rapport à d'autres solutions.

Vorteile

It's extensive customization and templates set for any kind of our personal accommodation requirements.

Nachteile

At first glance there is a lot of information going on in one place, making it quite visually distracting. And for those workers that only need to do a specific task like just upload daily or files, it gets confusing since they are seen too much information that they don't require.

Vorteile

The task list and notes page for each task.

Nachteile

Time tracking is way too tedious. It needs to be simpler and more user-friendly

Vorteile

Its easy to use and helps track tasks, it makes organising easier

Nachteile

Sometimes its slow to use, and it can crash sometimes.

Vorteile

I use ftrack largely to keep track of an asset pipeline. As long as we are on top of it, ftrack is a reliable source of information and lets me know what state any given task is in. I also appreciate the robust filtering and dashboard options. Also by default I get a pretty reasonable number of emails (just the ones with information I care about).

Nachteile

There is a bit of a learning curve when starting out with ftrack that can make it intimidating for new users. Also I wish the UI was more responsive in my browser.

Vorteile

Easy of use and UI. Expecially in these kind of work with a lot of data to manage.

Nachteile

I never had any additional needed beside functionality already supported

Vorteile

Ftrack makes it easy for my team to send videos to clients so they can give us feedback and download their videos with ease, all without having the client log in.

Nachteile

I wish moving between projects was easier.

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Vorteile

fTrack has made our project management much more easier and accessible for all of the artists and workers on our team, as we work remotely and putting information in a place where everyone can access it was very important. It has helped with managing our work load, but also for communicating issues, tasks, and deadlines.

Nachteile

The webplayer could be improved upon, right now it is a little clunky. For example, when I'm looking at my work through the webplayer, I have to go through and change every single shot to the most recent task. The shots that show up should be the most recent, not the first version uploaded. Also, notes made within the webplayer also don't seem to go to the correct task level, rather they go to the topmost level, which means I have to double-check and navigate to other task levels to see any notes made there. This is a problem because notes can easily be missed if you are unaware of a new note being made on a new version, or if you expect that note to be on another task level.

Vorteile

The taskboard view is useful for keeping track of all my shots. Its easy enough to navigate. Filters are helpful.

Nachteile

Hard to remove files uploaded in error/ edit the names of files in software. This might just be an admin/ user privilege issue though.

Vorteile

This product is much easier to grasp then it's competitor. More visual an intuitive

Nachteile

Make more features less dependent on API's for the lease tech savvy

Vorteile

I like how fast and simple Ftrack is. It can really speed up the tracking process without slowing down the production while tracking.

Nachteile

Some features are pretty hidden, like how to delete an uploaded file.

Vorteile

Very easy to use once you get to know your way around

Nachteile

I feel that it is overall complete, although sometimes i do not rec notifications

Vorteile

I think it's very easy to use, it's presentation is easy on the eye and makes it look simple. It works well with the software i am using and makes it easy to track my shots.

Nachteile

Maybe the thumbnails, i wish when the shots render through ftrack it automatically uploads a thumbnail? but maybe thats not possible with how we use it.

Vorteile

Easy to access, easy to chain tasks involving multiple people.

Nachteile

Proper setup requires a lot of API coding and updates often break things. They come out of the blue and are never a welcome site. Instead of "congratulations" it's: "Let's see what they broke this time?" There needs to be an option for letting the client choose when to roll up and not force it upon them, but that's not in the works, as far as I know.

Vorteile

The ease of use and the ease of setting up and assigning tasks to team members. The ability of team members to easily log their time per tasks is great.

Nachteile

Adding tasks is unintuitive compared to other management software that I have used. There are multiple ways of accessing projects which is sometimes confusing for casual users.

Vorteile

Able to communicate with teams and track progress with work loads.

Nachteile

Too many tabs. Hard to find the right info sometimes.

Vorteile

The task creation, linking and organization is really fast, and powerful. The time tracker is also quite smart and pretty easy to use.

Nachteile

My greatest frustration comes with the multiple overlapping popup windows for tasks and time tracking, they are ALWAYS covering up important information I needed to see/click on in the base screen (I am having to come up with funky workarounds to use, instead of tracking my tasks properly). A little more customization or smarter popup placement would be much appreciated.

Vorteile

It makes my tasks easy to find and follow, and since we are working remotely this is very useful

Nachteile

It took a little bit to get used to it at the beginning, sometimes I still struggle to find things if It's not a task that I do daily.

Vorteile

It is clear and straightforward when uploading media and switching various catagories that shots may be in, allowing for a neat and tidy work flow.

Nachteile

Notes. When uploading media, I need to add a note to each shot. However only a single line is available and if the note is long, you aren't able to see the start of the message without scrolling back. there is no ability to make a paragraph or sub-paras which would allow for clearer articulation of what was done on a challenging shot.

Vorteile

I like that can cover various parts from uploading of animation scenes to review

Nachteile

I would add an option that let you narrower or wider the coloumn in task board

Vorteile

I like how accessible and organized our projects, shots and tasks are on the site.

Nachteile

Having to manually press SAVE after making changes in order for it to actually take effect can sometimes be a drag.