Likelihood to Recommend ShotGrid seems to be well suited for a video team for reviews and project tracking. It may not be well suited for Project managers who need to see the bigger picture of the project.
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Well suited in:
Project management from estimate creation to final billing. Time tracking per job. Delegating tasks internally (and externally if choosing to use this feature). Creative agency environments where jobs have many moving parts and employees working on. Customer contact information management. Internal creative collaboration (brainstorming). Management oversight allowing team leads to review hours logged per employee to each job. Read full review Pros Uploads videos efficiently allows annotation within the video setting custom filters creating Gantt chart with inputs from each editor and animator adding versions to shot/asset adding assets to a shot Read full review Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Time tracking - like several time tracking solutions, FP uses a clock that will track in real time so that you do not need to remember how long you worked on a project to input later. Dashboards - I love FP's dashboards that let me track my personal utilization, the utilization of my team members and all of my open tasks. Reporting - FP's reports provide insight organization-wide into how we are doing and where we (as an organization) are spending our time. As with any reporting, though, it is important to manage the cleanliness of your data to make the reporting useful. Read full review Cons Ordering comments made by different people by timecode/frame number, instead by the time and date the comment was made Being able to move an uploaded video from shots to assets and vice versa. Right now we have to re-upload but lose any comments made already if they were in the wrong place Custom filters are great but they could get a little confusing with all the options. Might help with guidelines or a place we could ask what we want and someone could answer with the best way to achieve those specific filters we want Read full review Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Function Point often provided reports that were inaccurate due to bad calculations. The support team would work with us to troubleshoot these issues, but the fact remained that calculations were wrong. Function Point was purchased by a new parent company that increased prices over their nearest, superior, competitor, pricing themselves out of the market. Function Point's interface is dated, as is its code base. New features are being implemented not as software revisions or upgrades, but as new for-pay features. Read full review Likelihood to Renew For education, we can't see ourselves using anything else that comes at a cost
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Usability It's UI/UX is very robust. There's a lot of functionality but it's not very intuitive or intuitive. I spend time with new hires and contractors to overview ShotGrid for a day and revisit after a week or two. Questions always arise down the line
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Receive weekly emails from FP team about new features being added and webinars to review. Always extremely reliable and quick to respond with answers to questions or concerns. Includes function for their clients to make recommendations to their platform. Allows for customization on the back end to provide the best solution/functions for each client. Read full review Alternatives Considered Wipster had limitations on video uploads, which was a major drawback. One thing we liked with
Wipster was how we can see comments made in order on the timeline while watching the video.
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Workamajig was NOT a good fit, after over a year of back-end setup.
FunctionFox didn't have the financial integration capabilities we needed, but we used it for years and were happy with the service and support. FunctionPoint brought together the 30,000-foot view of the projects and resources with a simplified process for getting day-to-day jobs into the queue, which was essential for our organization.
Read full review Return on Investment We spend less time going back and forth with different stakeholders on shots and assets We don't have to pay services that only provided trial versions There is unlimited video uploading which was not the case with wiz Read full review Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
We have a much more timely and accurate sense of our financials since switching to FunctionPoint Our team is more efficient at tracking time, and we are much more able to track resources and profitability Our accounting manager is able to use Quick Books in a much more efficient manner than previously Read full review ScreenShots