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Digital Asset Management Software

Steve Sherrick

Steve Sherrick

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Looking for a solution that will allow me to track digital assets that are backed up onto various media (hard drive, CD, DVD, tape, etc). It would need to be OS X based, and it should have the ability to use thumbnails for easy visual reference. It should have an advanced search engine that allows filtering.

And most importantly, it should be stable.

Any suggestions?
 
is final cut server stable? I have not used it yet but I remember reading that it wasn't quite there yet. Anyone with experience with it care to weigh in?
 
Also, too, final cut server needs quite a lot of peripherals if im not mistaken, our company looked at it and after upgrades, we were looking at a 6 figured cost:ranting2: so needless to say we didn't dive in for it. Any one have any other ideas for Digital Asset Management outside of Final Cut Server?
 
Extensis Portfolio
Canto Cumulus
Microsoft ExpresionMedia (formerly iview)

These are solutions that people use in the photography and publishing world, but I don't know how well they adapt to video and multimedia workflows.
 
ALthough it does not fit the original poster's needs, some of you may be interested to find out that the professional Windows operating systems come with a facility called 'removeabe storage'.

It is essentially a catalog style database that assists with tracking items stored on removeble media (tapes, CD-Roms, etc). You can get to it by right clicking on the 'My Computer' and selecting 'Manage'. Under 'Storage' you will find 'Removeable Storage'. Based on the hardware installed you will have various objects, each of which have item-specific tasks that can be performed (such as a tape drive can be cataloged, which loads the current tape's Table of Contents into the database, at which point the tape becomes an object in the database, complete with its ToC).

Additionally, there is a command line program called RSM that can manipulate the Removable Storage system. The -trick- set up would be to have a small drive sized to the same size of the tapes you want to use. Move the files you want to backup to the small drive, click on a batch file and NT Backup then would commit everything on the small drive to tape. Then RSM would catalog the tape. Finally the batch script could use NT Backup to eject the tape (if the drive supports soft eject). Yes you could certainly span tapes, but things get a lot more complicated if you choose that route.

In the next few months I'm going to be building a large TB storage server, but I'm currently leaning toward openSUSE Linux. Removeable Storage may be a big reason to go with Windows Server...

Bob
 
stevesherrick said:
Looking for a solution that will allow me to track digital assets that are backed up onto various media (hard drive, CD, DVD, tape, etc). It would need to be OS X based, and it should have the ability to use thumbnails for easy visual reference. It should have an advanced search engine that allows filtering.

And most importantly, it should be stable.

Any suggestions?
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steve -

are you interested in something RED specific?
 
Offhollywood said:
We have something cool in the works - R3D specific - stay tuned -
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I'd certainly be interested in something that can track red footage. I also need something that can track all of my other digital assets through comprehensive searches. Look forward to checking out your software Mark. Do you have a rough ETA?
 
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