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!

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.

Ftrack became a central placed production tracking and automation platform in our studio. | We are considering it as a main information source about our project Now we are working on DCC integrations improvement

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

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

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

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.

Customer service and support has been excellent. Extremely happy with the service and the product.

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.

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.

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

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.

It’s a critical part of our workflow, and overall is a great product

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

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

We really enjoy how easy it makes it for our clients, and how we have been able to make it bend to our needs.

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.

I wish moving between projects was easier.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Easy managing of hundreds of shots for movies and tv series

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

I never had any additional needed beside functionality already supported

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.

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.

Has its quirks, but way easier to look at than an enormous spreadsheet. Many useful features.

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).

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.

Essential to coordinate and supervise the production of vfx. Manage the team it's easy, very easy. Not complex, not need to spend many time setting things or feeling you are in a excel with other skin

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

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.

Very good, although i beleive Shotgun is more suiterd to the 3D pipeline

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

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

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.

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.

Ftrack offre de nombreuses intégrations avec d'autres outils de production couramment utilisés, ce qui améliore l'efficacité globale du flux de travail.

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.

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

great, a really handy and efficient tool

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

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

Cross project management

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

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

Overall its good way to track and manage tasks for animation

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

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

Overall Ftrack is a breezy alternative for VFX project management with a few caveats.

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.

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.

Overall positive. Would like clearer options for managing files though.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Ftrack sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Frequent updates require continuous pipeline modification. I could complain, but actually, despite its flaws, Ftrack does things better than Shotgun.

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

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.