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Things That Make Us Different
Explore the Powerful Features that Make Evolphin Unique!
Our Most Popular Features
Business Value Not Bits and Bytes
Frontend Deduplication
Reducing Your Costs More Than Anyone Else »
Most Creative App Plugins
Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign »
Hi-Res Transfer Manager
Wicked Fast WAN Transfers from Anywhere »
Smartest Version Control
Right version no matter what »
Built-in Collaboration App
Integrated Review & Approval, Collaboration »
Protected SAN/NAS
Protecting Content from Malware & Human Errors »
Rules Driven AI Hub
Touch button access to all your preferred AI Engines »
Image Sequences
Only MAM with Motion Graphics, Render Queue, Cinema 4D Support »
Data Migration
When mere file & folder Ingest isn't enough »
Tiered Archive Management »
Auto Tier Across AWS S3, Glacier, Deep Glacier, LTO
Integration & Automations
Out of box 3rd party integrations & automation framework »
Zoom NonStop Service
The Ultimate Solution When You Need RTO/RPO=0 »
Frontend Deduplication
Science and Art Combined. This is a patented feature only available in Evolphin Zoom. FACT: Storage is a huge driver of cloud cost. FACT: On average customers will save 25%-30% in cloud and storage costs per year with Zoom when compared with other solutions!
deduplication
Storage Savings when Migrating Data
Detect Duplicates
Zoom Data Migration App detects duplicate media during migration to AWS S3 or On-premises Storage.
Smart Copy
Duplicates are converted into 0-byte smart copies eliminating the need to upload duplicate files and saving YOU a ton of Storage space.
Reduce Storage Costs by 20-30%
Deduplication WILL reduce your storage costs by 20-30%. File paths won’t change and links will remain in place.
DEDUPLICATION
Video Exports Storage Savings
Post-Production Exports
Video exports are saved as a new revision and NOT a new copy saving a ton of Storage.
Exports are Deduplicated
Exported revisions are deduplicated on the edit station with incremental changes stored as new revisions. For e.g., revision 3 here only took 20 KB vs 241 MB:
DEDUPLICATION
Graphics & Document Revision Savings
Deduplicate Any Asset Type
All asset types including Photoshop files, images, InDesign documents and Presentations are massively compressed with front-end deduplication. There’s no loss of quality or image resolution!
DEDUPLICATION
Reducing the Cost of Data Transfer
Slash and Burn the Egress Costs
Downloading content from the cloud can cost upwards of $90/TB. Deduplication reduces the amount of content stored and the amount of content to be downloaded. How? Only the file deltas are transferred and not the whole file.
Save Time Upload 90% Faster
Deduplication IS the most important innovation driving the remote workflow. Collaboration is enhanced while clogged networks, poor response times, and excessive storage costs are relegated to a thing of the past, End of Story!
DEDUPLICATION
Project Clone Savings
Who said that Duplicate Folders are Essential?
Post-production & creative teams love to clone previous working folders.
Duplicating media and digital asset folders takes a load of storage, increases your cloud costs and usually upsets your CFO. It’s madness! Read on…
Introducing 'Smart Copy'. Simplicity with serious firepower!
Zero byte duplicate folders; no storage, no cost and no difference at all to the user. Innovation making things simpler.
Most Creative App Plugins
We didn’t stop at Adobe Premiere or Photoshop; we tackled the entire creative spectrum. Designed with features for multiple workflows, our plugins are optimized to support Video Editing, Vector Art, Motion Graphics, Layout, Photo, Web Design just to name a few. Take a look and see for yourself!
Plugins
Goodbye to Offline Links
Unique Link Management
Evolphin Zoom Plugins track project links with unique IDs. A file rename, folder move or even changing the drive mount point will never throw a link offline.
Resolve Links Feature
When Adobe CC apps struggle to locate offline links, turn to the Zoom Resolve Link option and find missing links wherever they are stored.
This feature alone can save editors hours tracking offline files.
Plugins
Relationships that Matter
Track Layers, Links, Exports & more
We track 9 different associations between files more than anybody else. It makes possible time saving workflows such as:
- Collect project automatically using check out with links
- Search inside text layers in Photoshop etc
- Track digital rights violations across project files linking with a DRM asset
Hi-Res Transfer Manager
When you are dealing with large media files, remote teams and the need to collaborate, the traditional file transfer managers simply doesn’t cut it.
Using our global network of transfer hubs, content can be ingested and distributed rapidly to and from anywhere, including the cloud.
Hi-res Transfer
Wicked Fast Transfers
Parallel Transfers
Zoom will automatically divide your large media into chunks and then upload them in parallel. Upload or download entire folders recursively.
Auto-resume Transfers
If your file transfers are interrupted for any reason, Zoom will auto resume. FACT: Zoom is the only MAM platform that can auto-resume parallel transfers.
HI-RES TRANSFER
Ditch the 3rd party WAN accelerator!
Zoom includes a global network of accelerated transfer hubs that will move your content at lightning speeds saving you time and money.
Seriously Smart Version Control
Industrial strength version control is at the heart of Evolphin Zoom. Built on top of our patented frontend deduplication, designed to never lose revisions. Handles every file type you can throw at it.
Integrated into all our creative apps, as well as MacOS Finder & Windows Explorer!
versioning
Conflicts are No Good for Assets!
Built-in Conflict Detection
Unlike a Traditional MAM that can lose revisions when multiple editors are working on the same asset, our super smart conflict detector will alert you and then give you options before conflicts mess up your files.
versioning
Optimized for Creative Version control
Automatic Change Logs
Real time activity reporting! Need to know who’s working on an asset and what changes they’ve made? Easy! Zoom will give you a list of who, what and when.
Who Moved My File?
Moves & Renames are Versioned Too
Need to know who moved or renamed a file or folder? No problem, Zoom tracks and reports every change made to an asset including moves & renames!
0-Byte Smart Copy of a Revision
Need to edit revision 2 for a new project but don’t want to make a full copy of the file? Our unique Smart Copy feature works with revisions. Create a 0-byte smart copy of a revision with 1-click and save time to copy as well as storage space too!
Best Lock Management Period
Track Who is Editing
You can grab a lock on any file or folder. Zoom will then show the time at which you started editing the file in your working copy.
Unlike competition, our asset level locks do not rely on the usual file system based lock. Why? Because the approach is flakey and error prone.
Even Metadata is Versioned
File versioning without metadata versioning makes no sense.
While the rest of the industry is still catching up on file versions, Zoom has supported metadata versions for a while! Easily view metadata change history, or compare metadata across revisions.
Built-in Collaboration App
Tied into our coolest features, the only web based collaboration app you will need for every type of asset: 2D/3D graphics, images, documents, audio & video.
Save $1000s every year on the cost of subscribing to a 3rd party collaboration service as well as the time it takes to upload assets.
Collection app
Collaborate anywhere, at any time and on any device
Collaboration is part of our DNA and not a convenient after-thought. Every aspect of your creative workflow is carefully integrated by Zoom across devices, platforms and timezones.
COLLECTION APP
Powerful Dynamic Collections
- Media manager can create dynamic collections that are keyed from metadata fields such as "Year" and "Producer" name
- Producer can then simply select and tag assets from their phone or Web client to include in a collection and route them to editors
- Editors get alerted of new selects and can find the producer's assets in the shared collection
More About Collaboration
Click below to learn more about the latest Collaboration Features in Zoom 8.0.
Protecting On-premises Content
It happens! Ransomware, Malware, Human Errors, System Failures; they can all destroy your precious media archives. Protecting your content can’t be done after the fact.
By design, our unique ingest server architecture will create a DMZ around your SAN and NAS to keep the bad actors away. If your business depends on digital content this is a feature you can not afford to overlook!
PSAN
Ransomware is a real threat to your business
Protect Your Irreplaceable Media
Unlike Traditional MAM, our intelligent Ingest Hub acts as a guard to your media storage. Ransomware or Malware attacks are thwarted as end-users have only read access from their computers.
Secure your storage
Simplify Permissions via Project Vaults
Multi-Dimensional Permission Model
Competing solutions offer a basic but inadequate user/group permission model on files or folders. Evolphin Zoom organizes storage silos as Project Vaults providing a simpler yet much higher level of security.
A user must be a member of a Project Vault and have role based access to get to a file or folder in Zoom.
This multi-dimensional security model is more suited to creative workflows than plain old file permissions which are complex to administer especially when you have tons of files.
Rules Driven AI
AI costs need to be carefully managed. Processing costs by the minute can escalate rapidly. The Zoom AI hub allows media managers to set rules on which media to send to AI Engines. It also gives them the ability to map collections of assets to a specific AI Engine.
Evolphin also provides industry’s first AI driven editing workflow to speed up video post-production.
AI
Managing your AI Providers With One Simple Dashboard
Save Hours Managing your AI Engines
If you have every used AI Engines on large archives, you will trust us that a dashboard to monitor multiple AI engines is will save you time, money and a ton of frustration.
Using our dashboard you can:
- Get real time alerts when problems are detected in an AI Engine
- Automatically retry when intermittent errors occur with the AI Provider
- Easily analyze & resubmit failed jobs across 100s of AI Engines
- Produce daily reports and metrics on your AI processing to keep tabs on costs
AI
Setup Metadata & Path based AI
Media Managers can use any metadata & path based queries to automatically choose from 100s of AI Engines. For e.g. choose a specialized AI Engine to process all media published for “Dogs & Pups”.
AI
There's way more to AI than Speech to Text & Object Recognition
Try our Celebrity, Logo & Face Detection for starters
While most solutions are still perfecting basic AI Integrations such as Speech to text and Object Recognition, our AI capabilities reach into a long list of additional AI categories including:
- Support for Custom Face Training, Face Labelling
- Celebrity Face Detection
- Logo Detection for Brand Analytics
- Automatic Speech Translation to Foreign Languages
Future of Video Editing is Here
AI Assisted Video Editing
AI
Creating Rough Cuts with AI
Save Hours Selecting Relevant Clips
- Producers can use the AI Data Timeline feature in our Web App to auto select matching clips such as moments where "Coca Cola" logo appears
- Producers can then send the AI selected rough cut clips as Final Cut Pro XML sequences to the editors saving time and effort
AI
Importing an AI Edited Sequence
Save Hours Editing in Premiere Pro
- Editor can 1-click import the AI edited sequence sent by the Producer
- In Adobe Premiere the sequence is ready to be post-produced!
Motion Graphics Workflows
Zoom provides more support than anyone else for Motion Graphics workflows including Render Queue management. Check out our plugins for Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects and a load more!
Image sequences
First MAM to Include Image Sequence Support
Why ingest 1000's of frames when you can ingest one Image Sequence object?
Zoom can map a sequence of images as a single compound asset.
Traditional solutions will ingest individual frames, costing you time & money to store & index. Search can become a nightmare across millions of frames that all look similar
165 images in the NASCAR image sequence ingested as a single asset
IMAGE SEQUENCES
All our Apps are Image Sequence Smart
Directly Link with a Sequence
How cool is this…use any of our desktop apps including the Desktop Browser or the Adobe After Effects Plugin to search an image sequence as a compound asset & then drag-n-drop to automatically link with 1000s of individual frames!
Image sequences
See a Video Preview of an Image Sequence
No specialized software needed
Configure the frame rate and generate video previews from image sequences.
Let your Motion Graphics team collaborate with anyone through our simple Web Browser.
Why not markup or add frame accurate comments to image sequences like any other video asset? Awesome!
IMAGE SEQUENCES
Render Plugins
Avoid partial render ingest by a hot folder
Partial ingest by a MAM hot folder of an image sequence or animation still being rendered is of little use to the downstream editors.
Only the Evolphin MAM has API integration with popular render management systems like Adobe After Effects Render Queue, Cinema4D Team & Batch Render to ensure all your renders across multiple passes are correctly ingested and tracked in our MAM.
Circle Media
Data Migration
Often left as an after-thought, Data Migration can be a nightmare. Simple ‘drag n drop’ ingest just don’t cut it, especially when you are moving TB or PB of data across thousands of folders on different storage systems!
Data migration needs to be planned, methodical, automated and as far from casual as you can get.
Enter Evolphin Data Migration app:
- Only solution that provides automated crawls for generating pre-migration content metrics
- Then, applying the metrics our migration app will bulk ingest content using smart rules coupled with fault tolerant batch processing; millions of files & folders are configured into atomic batches instead of trying to ingest content as a single, albeit huge folder
- Next, we detect duplicates, and automatically create 0 byte smart copies saving 20-25% in storage costs
- Illegal characters in file paths are automatically cleaned up to eliminate potentially hundreds of hours of manual labor often needed to fix
- And here's another plus, we Ingest Image Sequences as compound assets!
- Does not require expensive custom migration code to be written by the Customer or a System Integrator
PRE-MIGRATION CRAWL
How Many Videos do I have?
Visualize video metrics before migrating
Visualize video metrics before migrating
Migration can be expensive. Find out all of these & more BEFORE you spend $$ migrating your archives:.
- What % of my video archive is in 4K resolution?
- How many HD videos do I have?
- What's the split between 50 Mbps videos vs 5 Mbps bit rate videos?
- How many hours of footage are in my storage archives?
PRE-MIGRATION CRAWL
Asset Classes
Review Content Distribution Metrics
Find out how your content is distributed across various asset classes BEFORE you spend time and $ migrating your archives:
- What % of my assets are Images vs Videos?
- What's the largest audio file in my archive?
- What's the total size of 2D vs 3D assets?
- How many Adobe CC project files do I have?
PRE-MIGRATION CRAWL
File Type Stats
Report by every single file type
Often, you won’t know how many distinct types of content your company has collected over time. This report uncovers every type of file you have in your archives along with key metrics:
- Sort by File Type extensions
- % distribution by file type
- Total disk space consumed by a file type
- Smallest, largest or average size per file type category
PRE-MIGRATION CRAWL
Know Before You Start Transcoding
Transcoding is expensive
How many MAM vendors can estimate all of your upfront transcoding costs, timelines and of course, every other aspect of your data migration? None.
Armed with our transcoding metrics you can trade off compute cost (CPU) with transcode time.
Evolphin Data Migration App
You're in good hands with Evolphin.
Tiered Archive Management
Auto Tiered content across AWS S3, Glacier, Deep Glacier or even on-premises LTO tape library
ARCHIVE
Automatic Retirement Service (ARS)
Archive with automated rules
Media managers don’t need to spend hours archiving old footage.
Setting up ARS is easy. Define the rules for different types of content and then let the system automatically tier that content as an automated background task.
$ will be saved, links and smart copies will be maintained and ARS will identify all files tied to a project and archive them as a single collection.
ARS replaces manual archiving with intelligent tiered archiving.
ARCHIVE
Deep Glacier Integration
Archive to 20X cheaper storage tier
Evolphin offers an AWS Glacier Deep Archive connector that lets media manager either setup an automated metadata trigger or move on-demand any project or it’s linked asset into the cheapest storage tier in AWS.
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AWS S3 10TB/Month $236AWS S3 Standard tier is faster but more costly
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AWS Deep Glacier 10TB/Month $11Archive in Deep Glacier is > 20X cheaper!
ARCHIVE
Manage Deep Glacier Restore Costs
Tradeoff: Speed vs Cost
AWS Deep Glacier is an incredibly cheap resource for archiving large amount of media. But the cost per GB to retrieve media and the time it will take can be excessive.
Evolphin gives you the option to decide which restore tier to work with depending upon cost and how long you want to wait for your content!
ARCHIVE
Preview Archived Content
Keeping your proxies online
By default, Zoom will keep your low-resolution proxies online so that you can preview or edit with them before you decide to restore the high-resolution asset from an archive such as AWS Deep Glacier.
For you this means you can save cost & time by downloading only the necessary assets from the archive every time!
Integrations & Automations
Out of box Evolphin offers over 2000s 3rd party integrations via variety of frameworks.
If you wish to get your hands dirty, we have a full suite of REST API and CLI for your development team.
Integrations
Zapier App with 2000+ Integrations
Automate in minutes, no code required
Our Zapier app allows anyone (including non techies!) to integrate our MAM/DAM with 2000+ apps without writing a single line of code.
This growing list includes:
- Publishing to Social Media Apps like YouTube, Twitter, FaceBook etc
- Project or Task Management workflows with apps like Asana, JIRA
- Publishing to CMS & CRMs like WordPress, SalesForce
- Syncing between Cloud storages like Google Drive, Microsoft OneBox and Evolphin Zoom
Automation
CLI for Scripting
Create automations faster using simple scripts
Only Evolphin ships a purpose build Command Line Interface (CLI) that allows creating automations in popular scripting languages including Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl on any Operating System (MacOS, Windows, Linux).
Make our system personal and create your own automations without the need for expensive 3rd party SIs.
integration
Modern REST APIs
- Zoom includes a bundled API Docker container that has everything you will need to quickly leverage our REST API
- With 0-configuration or training needed, your integration will be off to a flying start
- Separate API container micro-service, provides a secure walled garden where integrations can be separated from user accessible servers
Automation
Work Smarter with Automation Hooks
Most solutions will boast a set of APIs. However, these are little use if you need to be a rocket scientist to use them! Zoom includes a rich suite of automation hooks which complement our APIs and can trigger automations based on user defined business rules.
There is an answer for every business automation your team desires. Automate smarter not harder.
Automation Hooks
Automate Jobs
- Use any programming language to build automations using metadata & assets
- Give users the flexibility and usability of custom input forms to drive automation
- Create custom automations for exporting assets, QC, distribution, CMS integrations and so much more!
AUTOMATION HOOKS
Search & Execute
Execute actions on millions of search results
How’s this for unique.. combine the power of metadata searches with automation. Execute a search on any number of assets and then automate the actions to be taken on the assets that are returned.
Plus we take care of batching millions of search results into a group of 1000s and then invoking your actions on each batch.
Customers have build search & execute actions for variety of use cases including:
- Find all assets for the last season of a show and move them to an Archive folder
- Create a report of all hi-res files with total size, and ingested by freelancers
- List videos with duration that were successfully transcribed by a Speech to Text AI Engine
Automation Hooks
Media Converters
Save your favorite media conversion recipes and use them repeatedly for frequent media conversion & transformation tasks.
- Got a new camera with a codec that none of the transcoders can handle? No problem, plug in the camera card SDK and create your own edit proxy converter
- Watermark low-res proxies when sharing collections externally
- Allow users to self-serve by using custom forms that are linked to your converter recipes
- Automatically crop faces using your favorite Image AI
AUTOMATION HOOKS
Blazing Hot Folders
Extend our hot folders with your logic
Hot folder ingest is nothing new. The ‘coolness factor‘ is being able to apply custom hooks to the hot folder that will trigger actions to be taken either BEFORE or AFTER a hot folder ingest job.
Customers have used these hooks to:
- After receiving files via FTP, automatically detect duplicates and create Smart Links in Zoom
- Fetch metadata from a CRM, based on product SKU in images prior to ingest
- Allow photographers to retouch images in Lightroom & have it ingested automatically
Zoom NonStop
Zoom NonStop (ZNS) is the premiere High Availability/ Disaster Recovery solution without doubt!
Designed for the most demanding of mission critical media workloads, when your business can not tolerate any downtime or data loss.
Cloud or database vendors cannot give you the same level of data protection as ZNS, period! Read On…..
Zoom NonStop
Active-Active Replication
Instant failover with 0-data loss!
ZNS can deliver Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero! No other DAM or MAM in the marketplace can provide active-active replication. It all depends on your tolerance for RTO and RPO. In the Broadcast world for example, would an RTO of 10 minutes be OK for a critical to air piece of content scheduled for the Superbowl half time show?
Active-Active replication can be implemented:
- Within your Data Center or within the Evolphin AWS Cloud Region
- In your Data Centers or our AWS Cloud and therefore across geographical regions for true Disaster recovery
- Between your Data Center and our AWS Cloud Region for a hybrid setup
Zoom Nonstop
Cross Region Failover
You Won't Get this with AWS
Don’t believe us? Check out this AWS guide. Notice “asynchronous” replication?
This approach is not suitable for cross region replication of mission critical content because it is prone to partial dataset replication and at worst data corruption.
ZNS is designed to work across WAN regions by virtue of using our:
- Deduplication technology exchanges smaller change sets for "synchronous" replication across geographical regions
- Peer to peer parallel file transfers than can accelerate replication over the WAN
- Quorum based algorithms that can recover from any fault including WAN outages, and storage or server failures
ZOOM NONSTOP
Automatic Client App Failover
End users failover to nearest replica
Traditional failover technologies usually require system downtime to recover from a disaster.
ZNS can automatically failover your users to the nearest replica. And when their primary system comes online, ZNS can automatically transition them back to it.
For mission critical workloads such as globally distributed 24×7 creative shops this is a must have option!
Zoom NonStop
Any Number of Replicas Anywhere
More than 2 replicas? No problem.
Alternative solutions are limited to 2-replicas and usually deployed in an active/passive configuration. ZNS supports any number of replicas which eliminates any single point of failure and protects your business from multiple simultaneous primary server failures.
Replicas can be configured within your data center or across regions or in a hybrid setup with cloud and on-premises environments. ZNS supports shared storage or a shared-nothing model as well:
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