evolphin zoom - versioning dam, vercsion cue alternative

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Quick Overview of Evolphin Zoom Version Control edition

Pain Points

Version Cue discontinued by Adobeo No upgrade path to CS5 with asset versioningo Future support for Adobe asset versioning unclear

Can’t search/track published/archived assets across teams/projects/departmentso Limited asset reuse,o Effort duplication, ando Hence increased project cost & decreased efficiency

Inconsistent versioning support for various digital assets types

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Unique Challenges for Digital Asset Versioning

Import

(Load Asset)

• Associate Preview

Checkout

(Create asset work copy)

• Lockout other users from overwriting

Creative magic

Commit

(Save revision)

• Authoring tools (e.g. Adobe PS / Flash) can access versions inside the tool

• Save only changed bytes

Update

(Bring updated rev. to copy)

• Alert when team members change project assets

• Visually Preview Changes

• Bring only changed bytes

Find & Compare

• Marketing & other staff needs to visually find versions across projects

• Visually preview & compare versions

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Challenges

Complete Solution

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Evolphin Zoom covers the full creative workflow

Creative Professional

Clients

Project Lead

IT

Fast version control Visual search & timeline Plug-ins for Authoring tools (e.g.

Adobe PS, Flash) No lost / corrupted assets

improves productivityWeb-based approval

Automatic Publishing

improves productivity & saves on production costs

Huge Storage and network savings

Asset Protection

saves on IT administration,storage & network costs

Project Management Approval workflow

manage creative projects

Visual Asset Browser

• Patent-pending search through versions (unlike other DAM tools)

• Designed to search millions of assets in a fraction of a second

Search, preview and operate on multiple assets and their versions

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Visual History Tool

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View a visual timeline of changes

• Key DAM innovation• Thumbnail Previews• Access within authoring

tools• No authoring tool

license needed for version preview

Zoom Visual Client Plug-in for Adobe

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• All Adobe CS5 SDK tools supported products

• Many CS4/CS3 tools also supported

• Supported on both Mac and Windows

Perform standard VCS operations from within Adobe CS tools

Mac Finder Plugin

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• New for Snow Leopard

• Allows version status to be visible in Finder

• Context Menu to perform VCS ops from Finder

Folder Coloring & Standard VCS operations from Mac Finder

InDesign Link Versioning

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• Place links to versioned assets via Network share on Zoom Server

• Commit the linked Asset and have InDesign be notified automatically

Auto update of linked assets

Importing Assets

Drag-n-drop into Zoom Repository

Use Windows Explorer or Mac Finder context menu

Import from within Adobe CS5 or other authoring tools

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‘Import’ copies assets into the Zoom remote asset version store

Zoom Plug-in for Adobe Flash CS5

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• Same as Adobe PS Panel

Benefits for Management

Payback period less than a year

Control access and secure assets

Real-time reporting

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Features & Benefits for the Creative Professional

Version assets from within Adobe CS

Import, check-in, check-out assets faster

Visually search and preview millions of assets

Reduce erros, Improve productivity

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Features & Benefits for the Project Lead

Manage projects and users via a web-based Admin Consoleo Preview thumbnails without installing

authoring tools

Built-in wizards assist you ino setting up project specific workflows,o assignments and approval o tasks

Automated workflow, notifications and publishing Real-time reporting and tracking of timesheets, overdue

tasks and more

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Features & Benefits for the IT Administrator

Scale to millions of assets

Dramatically lower the cost of storing multiple versions

Unclog the network

Delegate project administration

Manage security via a web-based Admin Console

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Key Takeaways

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Evolphin Zoom is a complete solution for the entire creative workflow

Advanced version control

Visual search, preview and timeline

Speed, security and scalability

Real-time reporting

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Please Contact Evolphin Software, http://evolphin.com for more info