DAM Lowdown: NAB 2011, KIT Digital Acquires Ioko, Quick Hits

By Jason Campbell (@jemorycampbell) Apr 25, 2011

The DAM Lowdown was off last week, but that didn’t stop the DAM news. This week we have highlights from NAB 2011, another acquisition by KIT Digital, product and people updates from ADS, a new iPad app for Hollywood production and more Quick Hits.

NAB 2011 Highlights

The National Association of Broadcasters convened its annual conference earlier this month in Las Vegas. From April 9 to 14, over 90,000 professionals from over 150 countries participated in nine conferences and three training programs including over 500 skill-building sessions.

The gathering featured over 1500 companies distributed across more than 800,000 square feet of exhibition floor space. These are just a few of the announcements from the event:

Equilibrium Releases MediaRich ECM for SharePoint 2010 Online

Equilibrium (news, site), a digital asset and media manager, has partnered with NetConnect to create the first hosted visual collaboration and asset management system for SharePoint 2010.

In essence, Equilibrium has combined the enterprise version of the MediaRich ECM with Team Portal from NetConnect to create the aforementioned SharePoint 2010 solution. Users can work with over 400 different file types from within a centralized SharePoint 2010 portal without installing third-party software.

Crawford Media Unveils Web-Based Asset Management System

Atlanta-based Crawford Media Services demonstrated its entry into the increasingly crowded hosted asset management market. Creatively named "Crawford's Media Asset Management," the web-based system is intended to be customizable and re-brandable for individual clients.

What clients? How about: the United Nations, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and World Wrestling Entertainment? For more information, check out this video:

Crawford's Web-Based Asset Management Demo from Crawford Media Services on Vimeo.

CET Universe Releases Update to Constellation Platform

Originally launched in March 2009, the latest version (5.6) of the Constellation asset and storage management system offers integration with Avid and Final Cut Pro. Updates to the user interface enable search, retrieval and manipulation of assets without having to touch the original master version of the content.

CET Universe also announced that the new version of the Constellation platform will be integrated into its existing line of hardware appliances:

Andromeda Server — plug-and-play DAM server appliance
Fusion Drive — combines four hard drives in one interface that can be attached to a laptop
Archive Station — on set/near set video capture system for file-based workflow

Dalet Launches Dalet Media Life

Dalet Media Systems, another media asset management (MAM) solution provider, showed its flagship product, Dalet Media Life. Targeted at high-volume program producers — think broadcast networks and thematic channels — Dalet Media Life is designed to optimize program and promo workflows.