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What if you could do a simple search and see all your videos, photos, and design files that you need and even have the option to edit them from home?
Are you struggling to manage your church’s digital assets of video, photography, and design files? Don’t worry. This is a common problem with the growing demands of technical ministry that many are dealing with today. Many churches today have multiple editors and edit computers with attached external storage. When assets need to be shared with various people in a department, the external storage drive is walked over to the person who needs it… otherwise called “sneaker-net.” This method of digital asset sharing can be frustrating and time-consuming.
AirFLOW goes a step further in giving powerful metadata searches where you can find the sound clips, pictures, videos, and design files, all based on the custom metadata you add when you organize your assets.
Some churches with numerous editors and edit stations have network-attached storage (or NAS) in their internal networks. This method works well if the agreed-upon directory structure is adhered to and if you need to perform simple searches for assets. But what if you need to find a picture or video of a first impressions volunteer giving a high five to a family entering your church? You might have to look through many directories and files to find that picture you’re looking for. What if you could do a simple search and see all your videos, photos, and design files that you need and even have the option to edit them from home? That’s where EditShare’s suite of products can help.
At the heart of the EditShare suite of products is FLOW. FLOW is the answer to “sneaker-net” and simple NAS storage. FLOW is EditShare’s digital asset management system that integrates with EditShare’s own EFS shared storage as well as 3rd party storage systems . FLOW provides all the tools you need to quickly organize and meta-data tag all your digital assets for quick recall later. Every time you create an asset, you can add custom metadata fields into the description of that asset. So, using our illustration above, you could search for assets with first impressions, family, and high five as custom metadata you add to your asset. Imagine the time that can be saved in searching for assets for a project!
The product within Flow that is especially useful for technical ministries is called AirFLOW. For those who like the traditional directory view of your storage devices, AirFLOW provides that. But AirFLOW goes a step further in giving powerful metadata searches where you can find the sound clips, pictures, videos, and design files, all based on the custom metadata you add when you organize your assets. And, because AirFLOW uses proxies of your assets, you can view each of the assets right within the AirFLOW browser. AirFLOW also allows you to organize assets into a project directory that you can assign to an editor. This saves and maximizes the editor's time completing a project and less time finding and organizing assets.
While EditShare provides a turnkey solution to digital asset management and collaborative workflows, they also offer solutions that can be implemented in a phased approach to better fit a technical ministry's budget requirements. If you’re looking to take your digital asset management to the next level and increase your productivity, the EditShare suite of products is worth evaluating.
