Organising a small post house - one software to rule them all? Maybe from Adobe? #MAM

Spartacus

Spartacus

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Who out there is working with several connected workstations?
I'm thinking of a small production house, with three video, two graphics and one grading workstation.
Throw in some laptops who just do reviews and such.
So not that big, but also not that one-man-army-ish anymore.
We used to do fine with attached raids and a server for archiving, but need sth less manual and more
connected.
Besides getting sth like a Jellyfish https://lumaforge.com/jellyfish - is there a certain software/MAM you folks use
and can recommend?
Something that centralises ingest, raw file organising, footage review, archiving and distribution?
We're using Adobe CC and Resolve so sth that integrates well with those would be best.
(There is Bridge, but I always thought of it as a "picture viewer" and not aimed at video?)
Idealy it would handle both files on a lokal server and a cloud solution, with easy access to files from outside parties.
The solutions I found so far where either only taking care of distribution and the cloud part while being still affordable
or geared towards TV stations/big agency/post houses, thus taking care of the whole process but freaking expensive...
 
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Avid Interplay, not cheap but will organize all your assets and help you bring them into projects. Works best with Avid software but pretty sure they now support Adobe products as well.

Resolve with Fusion might be an answer to 95% of your needs (without the asset management parts).
 
Greg_E said:
Avid Interplay, not cheap but will organize all your assets and help you bring them into projects. Works best with Avid software but pretty sure they now support Adobe products as well.

Resolve with Fusion might be an answer to 95% of your needs (without the asset management parts).
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Thanks! I have been looking at Sony's Ci platform, I guess Avid Interplay will play in the same league.
To be honest, I was hoping not to spent around 5K per license on a MAM software.
If you're used to spending 50K on editing suite, 5K for managing media sounds about right.
That's why I said "small production house", guessing there are others out there that just grew
and need to connect and manage 6 iMacs for producing web-centred content.
My search brought up CatDV - anyone using this?

PS asset management and delivery is my main concern for this, nevertheless I would jump on the Resolve bandwagon without hesitation, but my editors live and breathe PP and AE
and aren't going to join me (yet).
 
I would look at Resolve. With the paid version you can network stations and it can do pretty much everything you are asking for $300 a station...
 
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