Comments on: DAM Pictures http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= Gavin Clabaugh's irregular blog on irregular things. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:02:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jonathan Winter http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-2680 Jonathan Winter Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:04:13 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-2680 What about "MediaRich for Sharepoint". The only truly integrated DAM system I could find "out of the box". We blew through $50k in development/consulting fees and had nothing useable for Digital Asset Managment workflows inside of Sharepoint 2007. Then we tried (they have a sandbox) and downloaded (easy to install into Sharepoint 2007) Equilibrium's MediaRich for Sharepoint. Loved it! 23k later, we have something that reads in just about all media and services 200 people for self service integrated DAM in Sharepoint. If I had known about this sooner, I would have saved alot of time and money! It adds advanced metadata search, video ingestion, video info views, all office files are thumbnailed, has great exporting and batch processing of media (very cool). They even fixed the uploader to handle huge uploads from any machine (we have a bunch of macs in the marketing department). Everyone is raving...I love it when something ads so-much functionality to a Microsoft platform that's very hard to develop on and makes the IT department look like we are miracle workers without the work! What about “MediaRich for Sharepoint”. The only truly integrated DAM system I could find “out of the box”. We blew through $50k in development/consulting fees and had nothing useable for Digital Asset Managment workflows inside of Sharepoint 2007. Then we tried (they have a sandbox) and downloaded (easy to install into Sharepoint 2007) Equilibrium’s MediaRich for Sharepoint. Loved it! 23k later, we have something that reads in just about all media and services 200 people for self service integrated DAM in Sharepoint. If I had known about this sooner, I would have saved alot of time and money! It adds advanced metadata search, video ingestion, video info views, all office files are thumbnailed, has great exporting and batch processing of media (very cool). They even fixed the uploader to handle huge uploads from any machine (we have a bunch of macs in the marketing department). Everyone is raving…I love it when something ads so-much functionality to a Microsoft platform that’s very hard to develop on and makes the IT department look like we are miracle workers without the work!

]]> By: Gavin Clabaugh http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-2607 Gavin Clabaugh Tue, 20 May 2008 13:57:42 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-2607 Lee, Check the post entitled: "Wham, BAM, DAM" at "http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/08/22/wham-bam-dam/ I posted a link that doesn't expire. Still works, still up there, all yours. Lee,

Check the post entitled: “Wham, BAM, DAM” at “http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/08/22/wham-bam-dam/

I posted a link that doesn’t expire. Still works, still up there, all yours.

]]> By: Lee Zieben http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-2606 Lee Zieben Tue, 20 May 2008 02:04:35 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-2606 Hi Gavin, i am the guy from Texas that you responded to last year about your DAM solution. You were going to upload it to an FTP for me, but i think got too busy. Would you still be able to do so, we are in bad need of this solution and would actually like to implement it in the next day or two if you can upload it for us? I would be GREATLY in debt to you and thank you so much in advance. Lee 713-443-1134 leezieben@zkhomes.com Hi Gavin,

i am the guy from Texas that you responded to last year about your DAM solution. You were going to upload it to an FTP for me, but i think got too busy. Would you still be able to do so, we are in bad need of this solution and would actually like to implement it in the next day or two if you can upload it for us? I would be GREATLY in debt to you and thank you so much in advance.

Lee
713-443-1134
leezieben@zkhomes.com

]]> By: Drew Eugene http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-2569 Drew Eugene Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:56:58 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-2569 I would try VeriPic. http://www.veripic.com They have been in use with police departments for quite some time due to the high volume and security needs. They are now in use (as far as I know) in some companies and hospitals, along with military installations. I hope that helps! - Drew I would try VeriPic. http://www.veripic.com

They have been in use with police departments for quite some time due to the high volume and security needs. They are now in use (as far as I know) in some companies and hospitals, along with military installations. I hope that helps! - Drew

]]> By: Adventures in Telephony — Scaling Skype » Gavin’s Digital Diner » Blog Archive http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1971 Adventures in Telephony — Scaling Skype » Gavin’s Digital Diner » Blog Archive Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:09:17 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1971 [...] The same is true for Picasa. (See my post about my Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, here and [...] [...] The same is true for Picasa. (See my post about my Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, here and [...]

]]> By: Greg Palmes http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1906 Greg Palmes Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:42:59 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1906 Oops, after wanting to see what other cool stuff you had up here, found your link for the .STP on the main page. Thanks, will give it a try! Oops, after wanting to see what other cool stuff you had up here, found your link for the .STP on the main page.

Thanks, will give it a try!

]]> By: Greg Palmes http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1905 Greg Palmes Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:37:46 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1905 Gavin, I've been looking for some inspiration in making some SharePoint media gallery / multi-user blog/photo site, and your post is the closest thing I've found for storing/viewing large amounts of pictures through SharePoint. I noticed you mentioned exporting the .STP file. Have you been able to share out that file? I would definitely jump at a chance to download and install it for personal use. Let me know if you can send/post, would be awesome! Thanks! Gavin,

I’ve been looking for some inspiration in making some SharePoint media gallery / multi-user blog/photo site, and your post is the closest thing I’ve found for storing/viewing large amounts of pictures through SharePoint.

I noticed you mentioned exporting the .STP file. Have you been able to share out that file? I would definitely jump at a chance to download and install it for personal use.

Let me know if you can send/post, would be awesome!

Thanks!

]]> By: Ulrich Bernskov http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1882 Ulrich Bernskov Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:05:18 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1882 We use Erez (http://www.yawah.com/products/erez.html) at work. It can scale ridicilous large pictures, bundle downloads of multiple pictures and zoom extraordinary large pictures without the viewer knowing it. You can see it in action on the Erez homepage or my companies use here: http://www.rmig.com/sw769.asp?lsearchdataid=33089 We use Erez (http://www.yawah.com/products/erez.html) at work.
It can scale ridicilous large pictures, bundle downloads of multiple pictures and zoom extraordinary large pictures without the viewer knowing it.

You can see it in action on the Erez homepage or my companies use here: http://www.rmig.com/sw769.asp?lsearchdataid=33089

]]> By: Gavin Clabaugh http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1878 Gavin Clabaugh Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:12:40 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1878 Aaron, I solved the resolution issue by not addressing it <grin>. Seriously, instead of trying to work out a way to store multiple copies of the same pictures, in different resolutions, we adopted a policy of storing only the highest resolution. Then, using the tools built into both MOSSS and Office 2007, we'll "downgrade" a photo as needed. From within MOSS/WSS, on the "Actions" toolbar, you get a choice of "sending" pictures to either open applications and/or Office applications. Within that dialog, you can specify the "original" size, or lots of variations, from 1024x768 on down to 160x160 pixels. Gavin Aaron,

I solved the resolution issue by not addressing it .
Seriously, instead of trying to work out a way to store multiple copies of the same pictures, in different resolutions, we adopted a policy of storing only the highest resolution. Then, using the tools built into both MOSSS and Office 2007, we’ll “downgrade” a photo as needed.

From within MOSS/WSS, on the “Actions” toolbar, you get a choice of “sending” pictures to either open applications and/or Office applications. Within that dialog, you can specify the “original” size, or lots of variations, from 1024×768 on down to 160×160 pixels.

Gavin

]]> By: Aaron http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1877 Aaron Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:38:16 +0000 http://www.digitaldiner.org/2007/03/28/dam-pictures/#comment-1877 Hi Gavin, Nice article, and I like your Brussels photos, it is such a terrific city. I was thinking of using SharePoint in the same way for our org's DAM needs :-) One feature I'm struggling with is how to keep a couple of different resolutions of an image grouped together. Have you dealt with that all in your experience? Other than that, a feature we may include is to put some workflow on top so that certain people in the org can be notified when new assets of a certain type get uploaded. Regarding your re-disribution effort with WSS, the searching will probably be heavily crippled. Good luck. Hi Gavin,

Nice article, and I like your Brussels photos, it is such a terrific city.

I was thinking of using SharePoint in the same way for our org’s DAM needs :-)

One feature I’m struggling with is how to keep a couple of different resolutions of an image grouped together. Have you dealt with that all in your experience?

Other than that, a feature we may include is to put some workflow on top so that certain people in the org can be notified when new assets of a certain type get uploaded.

Regarding your re-disribution effort with WSS, the searching will probably be heavily crippled. Good luck.

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