On Feb 22, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Ryan Clevenger wrote:
This may be more of a question for a media group or some video
folks. But as Mac people aren't we that by default? Anyway, I was just
wondering what or if some of you are using any type of digital asset
management software such as Portfolio Server by Extensis or Cumulus by
Canto? Or maybe something else entirely. What have your experiences
been and what can you recommend. We are trying to do this for our
church since one service or series or services might have several
digital media assets tied to it such as HD video, graphics, music,
Motion Graphics, compressed video, audio etc... Later down the road we
may want to revisit some of this data and to do that we need to have
some sort of asset management system. Anyway, thoughts?
I think I've posted several lengthy responses to similar questions here
in the past. It's a highly variable market - lots of products that vary
widely in pricing, architecture, and functionality. I'm not a big fan
of Cumulus anymore, if we're comparing it with Portfolio (which is not
my favorite product either, but not bad for the price). Portfolio could
be a good fit for you - it's pretty flexible, it's AppleScriptable, has
client-server options (and a Web option). I wouldn't expect it to scale
very far, but I doubt you'll run into problems with it for your church.
There's also a free "browser" client available (good for CD/DVD based
catalogs, or for free, non-Web access). There's also a 30day demo
available to answer your initial questions.
What you haven't said is what you actually want to do with it, but more
than like Portfolio and most of its competitors can suit your nominal
needs. At the low-end, one of the first questions that must be asked is
whether you need multi-user access or not... that rules out a lot of
otherwise nifty, cheap products.
-R
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