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Media Production Company Consolidating SharePoint and OneDrive
Company Situation
The company operates within the media production industry, focusing on video content creation. Their team is relatively small, with one primary video editor handling projects. They work with a substantial volume of photos and videos stored on shared cloud platforms, supporting video editing workflows and collaborative review processes.
Existing Workflow
Currently, the company stores their digital assets on a shared SharePoint environment. Their video editor uses Adobe Premiere for editing, managing project files, proxies, autosaves, and audio clips within this setup. Team members access files via shared drives but face challenges in efficiently locating specific media assets. Sharing files for review and approval is also managed through traditional link sharing and cloud folders.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
Difficulty organizing and searching large volumes of photos and videos, leading to inefficiencies in locating specific assets (e.g., finding a "purple shirt" or "people running along the lake").
Limited media-focused features within SharePoint, such as lack of scrubbable video previews, timecoded commenting, and metadata-driven organization.
Concerns about future-proofing asset accessibility in case of platform changes, including ease of bulk download and migration to other storage solutions.
Collaborative review processes lack integrated workflows for sharing and commenting directly on media files.
Need for guest access that allows external stakeholders to view and search media without requiring full licenses or accounts.
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade offers a media-centric cloud platform that integrates seamlessly with existing editing tools like Adobe Premiere. By uploading all media assets into Shade, the company gains powerful AI-driven search capabilities, enabling keyword and content-based queries across photos and videos. Shade provides scrubbable video previews with timecoded comments for streamlined review and approval. The platform’s metadata spreadsheet views allow advanced organization and classification of footage, including AI-assisted tagging of shoot lighting, style, and content.
Shade’s desktop app enables mounting the cloud storage as a virtual drive, keeping Premiere projects and media files in sync and centralized. Export workflows remain cloud-based, with easy options to drag and drop files back into other cloud drives like OneDrive or Google Drive, ensuring flexibility and data portability. For collaboration, Shade allows sharing media collections with guests via web links that support search and filtering without requiring a software license or login.
Benefits
- Efficient AI-powered search across photos and videos, dramatically reducing time spent finding assets.
- Enhanced media review with scrubbable previews and timecoded commenting directly in the platform.
- Organized media management through customizable metadata views and AI classification.
- Seamless integration with Adobe Premiere via a desktop app that mounts Shade as a cloud drive.
- Flexible export and migration options to existing cloud storage solutions.
- Secure guest access with search and playback capabilities through web links, minimizing license costs.
- Future-proofed digital asset management with fast bulk download and easy migration options.
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