Treatment
Turn the core idea into a clear treatment, visual direction, and shared creative brief.
See your entire film before the first shot.
A visual workspace for treatments, storyboards, change impact, approvals, and handoff.
THE LAST TRAIN / NARRATIVE SHORT / SAMPLE DRAFT
01 / What Framefold is
From first idea to ready-to-shoot.
Framefold turns creative direction into a visual, reviewable production plan your collaborators can understand and approve.
Storyboard + Ripple
Shape scenes visually and preview what each proposed change will affect before approving it.
Approved Handoff
Resolve rights and readiness, capture approvals, and export the exact version production receives.
02 / The development room
See the film as a connected system.
Move from a visual treatment to scenes, change-aware decisions, approvals, and a versioned production handoff in one connected workspace.
03 / Signature system
Preview the impact.
Apply only what you approve.
Ripple Edit shows exactly what a proposed change will affect. It traces a proposal through the current project before anything is committed: the shots, rights, readiness checks, and exports it actually touches.
Ripple Edit / Scene 03Sample draft · Preview example · Not applied
Proposed change
Move the pursuit inside the carriage.
CurrentPlatform / night exterior
ProposedCarriage / night interior
Base stateSave privately to establish V01
Nothing changes yet.
Scene 03Location change
Shot 03A
Composition
Composition
Rights 03
Release check
Release check
Asset 03
Review status
Review status
Handoff
Versioned export
Versioned export
Ripple impact preview
Exact consequences
Update shot direction and interior light plan
Review carriage location permission
Reconfirm existing visual asset
Create a new immutable version on apply
The saved version remains unchanged until this proposal is selected and applied.
Exact impact path / Selective apply / New immutable revision
Complete sample mapThe Last Train / workflow, four beats, and open readiness decisions
Development room
- Direction
- Sequence
- Preview
- Ripple Edit
- Readiness
- Handoff
Four-shot progression
- 01 / Arrival
- 02 / Fracture
- 03 / Pursuit
- 04 / Turn
Open readiness decisions
- Choose the primary release channel and delivery frame
- Record explicit rights decisions for scenes 01–04; add rights or release notes for scenes 03 and 04
- Complete the human readiness review for this exact draft
04 / Evidence travels with the work
A handoff tied to what was approved.
Every server export identifies the exact project version and checksum behind it. Review, rights, readiness, and provenance stay legible when the work leaves Framefold.
Immutable version history
Return to an earlier project state without rewriting its history. Each committed revision retains its own identity, author, reason, time, and checksum.
Version-bound decisions
Invite a guest to comment on one exact revision and capture version-bound guest comments and immutable approval receipts.
Deterministic production files
Export the storyboard PDF, project snapshot, shot list CSV, rights ledger CSV, readiness Markdown, and production ZIP for the exact revision under review.
05 / Versioned pre-production control / AI optional
Protect the decisions production depends on.
Use Framefold after creative direction is approved and before production handoff starts to drift. Begin with the complete Last Train sample or open a blank project.
Framefold studio
$19 USD / month
Billed monthly. Cancel from your account; access continues through the confirmed paid period.
- Private synced projects with immutable version history, plus browser-local backup and JSON restore
- Ripple Edit previews for runtime, location, delivery frame, CTA, claims, assets, and rights status
- Version-bound guest comments and immutable approval receipts
- Rights-, readiness-, and provenance-aware storyboard PDF, JSON, CSV, Markdown, and production ZIP exports
- 100 included units each subscription period for optional AI development and private critique
Plan and fair-use limits
The launch plan supports up to 200 synced projects, 500 immutable versions per project, 5,000 versions and 48 MiB of stored project-history text per account. Each project supports one private PNG, JPEG, or WebP image for each of up to 12 authored, image-backed storyboard scenes, up to 8 MiB per upload. Retained frame-image history is capped at 64 images and 128 MiB per project, and 512 MiB per account. Review records are capped at up to 50 active guest links and 500 retained invitations per project; 500 active links and 5,000 retained invitations per account; 500 guest sessions per project and 5,000 per account; 500 comments and 500 decisions per guest session; 5,000 comments and 5,000 decisions per project; 25,000 comments and 25,000 decisions per account; and 16 MiB of review text per account. Framefold refuses a new record at a limit and never silently prunes history. When a subscription ends, studio access ends; account-level data export and deletion remain available.
How optional AI works
You approve every change, review, and export. Optional AI runs only when invited, and nothing publishes automatically. Framefold sends relevant project text to OpenAI only after you request a development or critique pass. API storage is disabled; OpenAI says API data is not used for training by default, while abuse-monitoring records may be retained for up to 30 days.
06 / One controlled creative thread
Direct. Trace. Approve. Handoff.
Commit the direction
Shape the premise, treatment, sequence, and production choices, then save them as a private project revision.
Preview the ripple
Propose a consequential change, inspect the exact downstream path, and apply only the operation you select.
Review one version
Share a version-bound guest link, collect anchored comments, resolve readiness and rights, and record approval.
Export the record
Carry the exact approved revision forward in deterministic production files with its checksum and provenance.
Make the film clearer before production makes it expensive.
Keep every approved decision connected from direction through production handoff.