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Creative Agencies Company Consolidating MediaSilo and Cloud Storage
Company Situation
The company operates within the creative agency sector, supporting a diverse team that includes VFX artists, motion graphic artists, assistant editors, editors, producers, and coordinators. Their workflow involves multiple layers of collaboration, with various roles responsible for content creation, company presentations, and project management. The agency handles complex media projects that require coordination between internal teams and external vendors for color grading and broadcast finishing. Their storage needs are substantial, cycling through hundreds of terabytes of media assets.
Existing Workflow
Currently, the agency uses multiple platforms and tools to manage their media, including MediaSilo for external sharing and review, along with two separate servers to maintain company-specific data isolation. Their storage setup includes approximately 500 terabytes of capacity, with about 375 terabytes actively managed. The team uploads and shares media across different systems, collects company feedback through comments, implements revisions, and cycles files back to editors. The process is repetitive and fragmented, involving multiple uploads, downloads, and manual organization.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
Fragmented ecosystem requiring multiple tools and platforms for ingest, review, delivery, and storage
Time-consuming manual tagging and organizing of large volumes of media assets
Difficulty locating specific footage due to lack of an effective Digital Asset Management (DAM) system
Reliance on external vendors and separate workflows for color grading and finishing
Challenges in maintaining folder structures and seamless file transfers without compression issues
Limited storage capacity on cloud platforms, requiring selective uploads and frequent cycling of assets
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade offers an all-in-one platform that consolidates camera ingest, color grading, post-delivery, and review workflows into a single seamless environment. The platform’s AI-powered media indexing eliminates the need for manual tagging by intelligently auto-tagging footage and generating searchable metadata. Natural language search capabilities allow team members to quickly find specific clips based on descriptive queries, dramatically reducing search times. Shade’s cloud infrastructure supports large-scale storage with no artificial caps and maintains folder structures during uploads and downloads to simplify file management. The platform also supports collaborative review with timeline-based commenting, streamlining feedback and revision cycles. Shade’s trial program allows teams to test the system in parallel with existing workflows to ensure a smooth migration.
Benefits
- Unified platform combining ingest, editing, review, and delivery workflows
- AI-driven automatic tagging and metadata generation, reducing manual labor
- Natural language search for fast, intuitive media retrieval
- Preservation of folder structures during file transfers, avoiding data chaos
- Unlimited cloud storage capacity to accommodate large media libraries
- Streamlined collaboration through integrated review and approval tools
- Flexible trial period to test capabilities alongside current systems
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