Question 1

What is ShotStage?

Accepted Answer

ShotStage is a professional, 100% EU-hosted film and video production platform. It combines visual storyboarding, shooting day planning, frame-accurate video review with annotations, an interactive Gantt timeline, and team collaboration in one browser-based workspace. GDPR-native by design and built for enterprise and industrial clients, ShotStage keeps core production data within the European Union with no US cloud dependency.

Question 2

Where is ShotStage data hosted?

Accepted Answer

ShotStage hosts all core production data — accounts, project content, media assets and backups — exclusively on infrastructure within the European Union (Austria/EU). The core platform does not depend on US hyperscalers. Optional third-party features are disabled by default and only activated with explicit consent.

Question 3

Is ShotStage GDPR-compliant?

Accepted Answer

ShotStage is built GDPR / DSGVO-native: EU data residency for core production data, transparent processing, and data subject rights under EU law. The platform is launching soon; enterprise and B2B terms apply when registration opens.

Question 4

Is ShotStage a European alternative to Frame.io for video review?

Accepted Answer

ShotStage offers frame-accurate video review with annotation tools, threaded comments, secure share links for external reviewers, SRT subtitle export and DaVinci Resolve marker export — as a European, EU-hosted alternative to US-centric review tools. Beyond review, it also covers storyboarding, shooting day planning and timeline scheduling in one platform.

Question 5

Who is ShotStage for?

Accepted Answer

ShotStage is built for European production teams, broadcasters, agencies, and corporate and industrial video departments that require GDPR compliance and EU data residency — from pre-production storyboards through shooting day planning to frame-accurate review and approval.