The Concept

Freque is a prototyping platform for film, episodic, advertising, and content teams.

Individual departments and creatives can upload their work so that decision makers (i.e. directors, producers) can view and comment. It’s the one place where everything flows together and can be viewed at once. It’s the status quo of the project, or, with a bit more pathos, the single point of truth.

The Structure

In short: Projects → Films → Edit Versions → Audio and Video assets

Projects hold one or more Films. This could be episodes to a TV-show, commercials of a campaign, or a single feature.

Each film can contain one or more Edits. Here, the various departments and creatives can add their work to share and receive comments on.

Navigating Freque

Project View

Starting on the Dashboard (the home screen if you will), you can open a project to get to the screen we call Project View that contains all the films.

Film View

Opening a film will get you into Film View where you see the picture along with a commenting pane on the right and a section underneath the picture that contains the Lanes.

Lanes

Each film department gets their own Lane. A composer works in the Score Lane, a sound designer in the Sound Lane.

Cues & Scenes

Lanes can contain Cues and Scenes. These are essentially containers that hold the assets that will play back with the picture. For instance, a composer would upload a piece into a Cue in the Score Lane. Each Cue and Scene can hold many assets.

Workspace

When you double-click a cue, you enter the Workspace. This is where audio files are uploaded and placed under picture.

On the left is the asset pane that contains all the assets uploaded. Underneath the picture is the Sync Area where chosen assets are placed for playback with picture. You can edit the beginning and end of an asset, slip and slide it under picture, and even automate the volume curve.

This is a rough overview of how Freque is structured. We have detailed tutorials for each of the areas, including commenting and team management, which we did not cover here.