Boost Post-Production Productivity with Strawberry and freispace

If you’re in post-production, especially on the technical support side, you know how challenging it can be to manage resources, workflows, and storage. From Dropbox and Google Drive to internal network drives and external storage, production environments can feel chaotic—like the wild west.

For creative teams working on tight deadlines, IT systems should be invisible, allowing them to focus on content creation. But when disorganized workflows lead to dreaded “media offline” errors, frustration peaks. “Why can’t I find my content?” is a question no editor wants to ask.

That’s where tools designed specifically for post-production workflows, like Strawberry and freispace, step in. These solutions streamline operations, eliminate errors, and save time, making editors more productive and happy.

Recently, we’ve been working with several clients to integrate our Creative Project Framework, Strawberry, with their resource planning tools (e.g. Asana, Wrike, Monday.com). Through the integration, Strawberry can automatically generate projects and workspaces based on scheduling and assignment triggers from the resource management tool. This has helped our customers reduce hundreds of hours of manual work, increasing security and speeding up time-to-delivery.

This is how we discovered a resource management tool specifically created for the content creation industry—freispace.

We asked our friends at freispace what differentiates them from more generic project management tools in the industry, and this is what they shared with us:

Built by Industry Professionals: freispace was developed by post-production experts who understand real-world workflows. It’s designed to solve the unique challenges faced by creative teams without forcing them to adapt their processes to fit the software.
User-Friendly and Flexible: freispace is intuitive, with feedback like “I could instantly use it” being common. This simplicity reduces onboarding time and makes it adaptable for companies of all sizes. The tool adjusts to fit specific workflows, offering personalized functionality that reflects how teams actually work.

Comprehensive Toolset: Scheduling is at the core of freispace, helping teams organize data, people, machines, and resources. On top of that, freispace integrates billing, time tracking, carbon emission tracking, and more—saving users time and consolidating information in one place.

This is where the combination with Projective’s Strawberry becomes invaluable, delivering joint functionality that brings unparalleled benefits to creative teams of all sizes. Strawberry’s creative project framework, combined with its robust and open API toolkit, becomes an ideal foundation to build automation for the entire creative process.

When connected together, projects and workspaces can be automatically created and assigned by Strawberry based on upstream triggers set in freispace. Individual permissions and tools within the post-production environment are assigned at the project level when managing and assigning resources in freispace. Because Strawberry is controlling the actual storage being used for editing, security is greatly enhanced and the typically chaotic post-production process becomes much simpler.

The standout benefit of this integration is the ability to set a storage quota in freispace and have it immediately connect to production quotas in Strawberry Skies. Accurate budgeting becomes possible, including sub-billing to different teams, based on storage usage.

We love how the combination of freispace’s seamless resource management with Strawberry’s powerful project collaboration capabilities addresses the chaotic nature of post-production workflows.

With Strawberry, your engineering team achieves predictability, consistency, and control, while your editors will never see the dreaded “media offline” slate again. With the freispace integration, creative teams enjoy better collaboration with faster project turnarounds. Your organization will gain clearer insights into storage usage and billing, enhanced security, and significant time savings.

Transform your post-production workflows today and see the results for yourself with the combination of two great tools. Keep creating amazing content, while we handle the rest.

Get in touch for a demo today!