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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
