The process of digital asset management (DAM) or storing, retrieving and distributing digital assets (files), such as logos, photos, marketing collateral, documents, and multimedia files in an organized system can be daunting. The following articles offer tips, techniques and products to help you overcome your digital asset management woes.

Editing and Output at NAB 2007

By Jan Ozer

At NAB 2007, the lower level of the South Hall was dominated by computer-related technologies. This article first describes video editing related announcements, then announcements relating to streaming media encoding. On the video editing front, I’ll describe the big three first, then the rest in alphabetical order...


Video Bellwethers

Springtime for the broadcast and professional video worlds means only one thing: Another trip to Las Vegas to check out the manufacturers' latest technological...


Beta Sight: Autodesk Toxik 2007

By Phil Brennan Asylum Visual Effects

I've been involved with film and commercial visual effects now for 17 years, and I have been at Asylum Visual Effects since 1999 working on films such...


Long-distance Relationship

By Michael Goldman

Veterans of long-distance collaboration adventures for editing and general postproduction on major projects in recent years emphasize that the umbrella...


Shoot Tools: Fujifilm

By Trevor Boyer

In time for NAB, Fujifilm introduced its new PD711, a 23.3GB Blu-ray disc designed for Sony XDCAM and XDCAM HD systems. Data transfer is standard for Blu-ray: 72Mbps for single heads and 144Mbps for dual. Certain hardware/software combos yield 86Mbps...


Edit Tools: Glyph

By Trevor Boyer

With its new GT 062 two-drive tabletop model, Glyph facilitates three storage modes: JBOD, Spanning, and RAID 0 (striping)....


Shoot Tools: Roland

You can never have enough storage capacity, and that goes for both large facilities and small devices....


Mark In

In 1990, Jim Plant, now NewTek's CEO, said that in the future your favorite TV show will probably be made by someone you know....


Mark In

By its very nature, editing is time-consuming. But even more than the hands-on part of the job, the logistics of pulling together all of the interested...


Mark In

Challenged by the idea of doing HD production in a place that claims to be the largest domed indoor sports facility in the world? That's what Helifilms...


Apple Unveils Final Cut Studio 2

Apple unveiled Final Cut Studio 2, a significant upgrade to the industry’s leading video production suite that delivers new creative tools designed expressly for editors. Final Cut Studio 2 includes Final Cut Pro 6, which introduces Apple’s ProRes 422 format for uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes...


ClearStory Systems Digital Asset Management Solutions
ClearStory digital asset management software suite manages the enterprise digital media supply chain—from creation and collaboration to lifecycle management and delivery—to give companies reduced operational costs, improved productivity, and increased revenues. ClearStory's enterprise DAM products include: ActiveMedia—hosted or installed, ActiveMedia delivers digital media projects rapidly, on budget, and on time; and Enterprise Media Server—preferred by ClearStory partners for its ability to support rapid custom development and profitable software-as-a-service business models.

Digital Asset Management Product Line
Interwoven's MediaBinTM product line is the leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution chosen by marketing organizations to manage the thousands of digital assets and marketing content used to promote their products and brands

Digital Asset Management Resources and Guides

IPA - Digital Asset Management
10 ways digital asset management can go astray and how to avoid it. ... A review of the latest digital asset management technologies and systems

Digital Asset Management 101
In an age when oodles of media, including print, images, video and audio, are stored in computers rather than file cabinets, newspapers and other groups need a way to organize, manipulate and share those media quickly and easily.

From Tapes To Bits: Digital Asset Management
With a mix of promises, concessions and trade-offs, public broadcaster WGBH convinced a bevy of vendors to create a reference architecture for digital asset management.

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