Frames is a focused video-timeline workspace for assembling and reviewing an early sequence. It brings clips, captions, titles, audio, markers, and editing controls together so you can explore the shape of a video before a production media and export workflow is involved.
Start With A Frames Project
Open Frames from the apps menu to browse projects in the current space area. The explorer follows the area and folder structure you already use in Visual Space, with clear loading, empty, and unavailable states. People with access can open an existing project, while eligible space coordinators can create one in the selected area.
A created project has a durable identity: it remains available in the explorer, and its direct project address returns you to the corresponding workspace. That identity is separate from the editing content inside the workspace.
Frames edits are session-only. Leaving the workspace, refreshing the page, or switching to another Frames project resets the timeline, referenced assets, markers, comments, settings, clipboard, and edit history. Returning through the same project address restores the project identity, but it does not restore the sequence you assembled earlier.
Build The Sequence On The Timeline
The timeline starts as a set of empty lanes, each with a clear role:
You can create the first local Audio, Caption, Text, Overlay, or Adjust clip directly in an empty, unlocked lane. Video and B-roll clips come from a compatible referenced asset instead. A newly added item is selected and brought into view, which makes it easy to continue in the Inspector.
Frames supports both a focused clip and a wider selection. Select one clip for precise changes, use Cmd or Ctrl to toggle clips in the selection, or use Shift to span visible clips from the focused item. Selecting a clip also moves the playhead to its start; selecting a marker returns to that marker's frame.
The editing commands cover the essentials of rough assembly:
The Frames clipboard belongs only to the current project session; it does not read from or write to your device clipboard. Successful changes enter the local undo history, and a new change clears the redo path. The History panel names the latest actions, while the timeline zoom controls can focus around the playhead or return the view to 100%.
The timeline keeps preview, playback position, track roles, and the session-only draft boundary visible together.
Preview The Draft And Reference Assets
The preview helps you inspect timing and composition as you work. It can show empty, loading, ready, missing-media, unsupported, and poster-error states instead of presenting an unexplained blank monitor. Grid and safe-area guides, active caption or title copy, and the focused-clip outline provide useful composition cues.
When the local preview is in its ready state, you can play or pause its timing shell, scrub by frame, adjust local preview volume, loop, and switch between Fit and Fill. These controls keep the playhead and time display aligned with the timeline. They are not finished media playback: Frames does not currently decode or process a real video sequence.
The Assets panel organizes the local references used during the session. It can search and filter referenced items, show metadata, identify used assets, and surface missing or offline states. An asset added near the playhead creates a compatible clip and becomes part of local undo history.
Current asset access is deliberately narrow. Frames offers a supplied existing-media reference for trying the workspace, but it does not yet provide a real media picker, upload, replacement, or processing flow. Waveforms and some visual media representations are placeholders rather than decoded content.
Refine Captions, Titles, And Audio
The Inspector changes with the focused clip. Depending on the clip type, it can expose timing details, opacity, speed, fit, volume, mute, fades, text styling, caption placement, or adjustment strength. Unsupported crop and media-replacement actions remain visibly unavailable.
Captions and titles also have a dedicated panel. From there you can select their timeline clips and adjust meaningful local properties:
Automatic transcription and transcript import are not connected. Caption work begins with the local caption clips you add yourself.
Selecting a caption clip exposes its timing and presentation controls without leaving the timeline workspace.
For audio, you can mute an entire audio track or adjust a selected audio clip's volume, mute state, and fade-in or fade-out length. Voice, music, and effects views help separate audio roles. Solo, ducking, voice enhancement, loudness normalization, and decoded waveforms are outside the current workspace.
Mark Moments And Review Locally
Add a marker at the playhead when you need a quick navigation point. The Comments panel can also add a local review note at the current frame, creating both a marker and an open timestamp comment. Choosing either one returns the playhead to that moment.
Comments can be viewed as Unresolved, Resolved, or All, and their cards show review metadata. For now, the note text, assignee, status, resolution, and approval details cannot be edited. These notes are personal session aids rather than messages sent to collaborators.
Undo and redo can restore local timeline and selection snapshots while the session remains open. Versions, comparison, recovery, and autosave panels describe the current draft boundary, but they do not create saved versions or durable recovery points. Linked project notes are not available either.
Use Frames On Smaller Screens And In Meetings
On mobile, compact scrollable rows replace the desktop tool and panel rails. Panels open in a focused sheet, timeline command menus are available with a long press, and compact zoom controls keep navigation within reach. Trim and Crop remain disabled on mobile because their current interaction expects desktop precision.
Frames can also be opened as a live app in a supported activity meeting. The meeting can use an existing project or, when the participant has the required access, create a project in that activity. The same Frames workspace then appears on the meeting stage.
Ordinary meeting layout changes preserve the current local editing session, including changes caused by showing or hiding meeting panels. Changing the selected Frames project is different: it resets the local editor and starts the newly selected project with an empty session. Playback, edits, markers, and comments are not synchronized with other meeting participants.
What The Current Workspace Does Not Preserve
Frames is useful for exploring a rough sequence, but it is not yet a durable video-production workflow:
Treat the workspace as a place to try an early local assembly and review its structure during one uninterrupted session.
Common Questions
Who can create a Frames project?
An eligible coordinator can create one in the current space area. Opening and browsing existing projects depends on access to that area.
If the project persists, why does my timeline disappear?
The durable project entry and the session-only edit are separate. The explorer can return you to the named project, but leaving, refreshing, or changing projects clears its current timeline and related local state.
Can I use my own uploaded video?
Not through the current Frames workflow. The real media picker, upload, replacement, and processing steps are not available; the supplied reference is there to help you explore the editor shell.
Can other meeting participants see my edits and playback position?
Frames can occupy the meeting stage, but timeline edits, playback, markers, and comments are not synchronized between participants.
Does Export create a video file?
No. Export currently presents a preview of formats, presets, and job states. It does not render, publish, or create a downloadable video.