Connecting Premiere to Fotofolio: Browse albums + Send finished cuts

Most photographers and videographers who work in Premiere are already happy with their edit environment. The Fotofolio panel is built around that — it doesn't try to replace anything you do in Premiere. It just makes the round-trip with your client gallery faster.

What it does

The panel installs as an Adobe UXP plugin via a .ccx file. It docks like any other Premiere panel and has two tabs:

• Browse — your Fotofolio albums show up as a thumbnail list. Click any clip and it lands in Premiere's Project panel ready to drag onto the timeline.
• Send — after you export the normal way (File → Export → Media), pick the rendered file in this tab and it uploads with a real progress bar to the album you choose. No render-queue trickery, no fragile UXP rendering APIs.

Installation

1. Generate an access token. In Fotofolio: Dashboard → Integrations → Adobe Premiere → Generate access token. Copy it.
2. Download the .ccx. Same page. Save the file somewhere obvious.
3. Install via Adobe Creative Cloud. Double-click the .ccx. Creative Cloud Desktop picks it up and installs the panel into Premiere. If you don't have Creative Cloud Desktop, drag the .ccx onto the Adobe Exchange site (or use Adobe's UXP Developer Tool for sideload).
4. Open the panel. Premiere → Window → Extensions → Fotofolio.
5. Paste your token in the panel's Connect screen. That's it.

Day-to-day workflow

For a wedding film, our typical use looks like this:

• Couple's raw footage is already in a Fotofolio album (uploaded via Watch Folder or the album page).
• Open the panel's Browse tab. Pick the shoot album. Drag the clips you want onto the Premiere timeline.
• Cut the highlight reel.
• File → Export → Media. Render to a local folder.
• Panel → Send tab. Pick the rendered file. Choose the couple's client gallery as the destination album. Hit upload.
• Couple gets a private link with the film already there.

Why we built Send as a separate tab instead of auto-rendering

Premiere's UXP rendering API is brittle. Triggering renders, reading the output path, knowing when it's done — the API surface for that is inconsistent across Premiere versions and tends to break with point updates. We'd rather you control the export normally (the workflow you already know) and we just handle the upload after.

Marketplace listing — coming

We're working on the Adobe Exchange Marketplace listing. Once it ships, install will be a single click from inside Premiere's Plugins panel instead of the .ccx download. The functionality is the same; it just removes a friction point. We'll post in the changelog when it's live.

What it requires

• Premiere Pro 24.0 or later (we use the modern UXP runtime, not the legacy CEP one).
• A Fotofolio account on any tier (free tier works for testing).
• The panel stores your access token in the OS keychain via UXP's secureStorage API — it doesn't live in plain files.

If something doesn't work

• Panel won't open in Premiere → check Premiere version is 24+; older versions need the CEP version which we don't ship.
• Upload fails → check the access token didn't get rotated. Generate a fresh one and paste it.
• Browse shows no albums → confirm the token belongs to the same account that owns the albums (multi-account users sometimes hit this).

Email hello@nanoappstudio.com if you're stuck. The person who answers your email is the same person who wrote the panel code.