growler_south | (no subject)

I'm learning about Digital Asset Management- basically software which catalogues and organises all your images, videos, and files, wherever they may be, and offers quick and easy searching. Great for us here, where we have vast, disorganised librarie of images, textures and footage, and no-one can quite remember where everything is.

Unfotunately, this seems to be a new and exciting field, and so I'm wading through enthusiastic but pointless newspeak. I dont WANT to leverage and monetise my diverse portfolio, nor do I want to experience a synergistic environment for structuring the flow of media assets. You can take your powerful transformations and enhanced management capabilities and stick them right up your documentation platform, for all I care. All I want to know is:

Will it make finding stuff easy?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

If your needs are that simple... you might be able to get away with Filemaker Pro - a record can contain a binary object of mindboggling size (I forget how big offhand, but it's big). Or, as I recall, it can simply store a pointer to the file, if you like. (I haven't gotten into this aspect of FMPro yet - I've been working on other projects.) One of the examples available for download from their website is a basic asset tracker.