Better Generations Window
Subject: Generation History is a mess. Fix it.
I use Firefly for TV/film production. Generation history is where all my work lives, and it's nearly impossible to organize.
- Favorites is one bucket. One heart for everything. That isn't organization.
- Projects duplicate my files. Adding generations to a Project copies them, so I either pay for storage twice or delete originals and gamble that the copy worked. Frankly, it feels like a way to sell more cloud storage. Projects should reference originals, not copy them.
- No tags or labels. Lightroom and Bridge have had batch tagging and color labels for years. Generation history has nothing.
- I can't name my own shots. There's no way to give a generation a custom label like "Sc12_Tower_Wide_v3." Worse, the same file shows a different name depending on where I open it, whether Generation history, a Project, Your files or a download. I can't track a shot when its name keeps changing.
- No metadata after generation. To find anything later, I have to embed codewords in my prompts before I generate. That's a workaround for a feature that should already exist.
- Reuse means re-uploading. Anything I organize outside Firefly has to be uploaded again to use it. Adobe owns the cloud, the apps and the file system, and they still don't connect.
- Build a real project panel. Premiere Pro already has bins, sub-bins, list and thumbnail views, sortable columns (date, model, aspect ratio, resolution, prompt) and drag-and-drop. You've built it. Put it in Firefly and make it reference originals.
- Everything waits on the cloud. Every scroll, thumbnail and preview crawls. Browsing a few hundred generations shouldn't be a test of patience. Either this is bad design, or you've sold too many unlimited subscriptions without the server backbone to support them. Either way, I'm the one paying for it in lost time.
Altogether, this is an incredibly frustrating experience. I'm paying for this, and I shouldn't have to fight it to find my own work.
No need to reply. Don't send me a thank-you or a canned response. Just make it better. The only reply I want is from someone on your team who hates the Generation history window as much as I do and is going to fix it.
