Even if you don't use iconik now, having a sidecar sitting next to your media is a great asset to have, for whenever you start using a MAM. There's also a third use case: be prepared for the future.
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There, a dedicated Mac will be running ISG for processing sidecars. Or, travel drives make it back to the office, to be ingested into shared storage.Either, DIT stations offloading original media run ISG but only process the sidecars, adding proxies to iconik from a second transcoding machine on-set that also runs ISG.Most organizations that have been using this integration in stealth mode for the last two years (time flies when you’re having a pandemic) use it in two ways: A proxy that's uploaded at a later time together with a sidecar containing the original file's checksum will then be linked too. When at any (most likely, later) time the assets are uploaded, it all gets reconnected. Hedge's new iconik integration allows you to create ISG sidecars with custom metadata, without requiring you to upload files to iconik while offloading.īy generating a sidecar, Hedge tells ISG a file exists, and ISG then creates a placeholder for it in iconik - without needing to upload the actual media. That should be easier, right? We think so too. Time to pull out the Excel sheets, CSV files, camera reports, and more favorite 90's technology. Those proxies are often created at a later time than when the initial offload takes place, and that's where the Great Disconnect rears its ugly head: often, metadata captured on-set is not connected to proxies that make it to editorial. So, iconik uses different flavors of proxies, for editing, and for the web. However, when it comes to cloud MAMs, not all media is created equally: proxies are great to store in the cloud, but storing originals isn't necessarily useful or even affordable. ISG's sidecar format allows you to define metadata per file, which is then processed by ISG and added to the accompanying assets in the cloud. ISG solves this by working with sidecars. Offload your media first, and ISG will take it from there.īut MAMs aren't just about files, they're actually more about metadata - “if a file doesn't have metadata, it might as well not exist." That's particularly true for MAMs: how do you find a file when you don't know anything about it? This makes it ideal for production companies that have a dedicated ingest desk, DIT computers, or a media management station. Iconik Storage Gateway is an app that runs as a service on a computer, automatically uploading any data added to predefined watch folders. To solve that, iconik has a great solution: ISG.
Having a MAM in the cloud solves a lot of collaboration issues, but all that media still has to go into the cloud one way or another. Born out of the Cantemo MAM, iconik has been at the forefront of this trend, being cloud-first since its inception. Long before COVID-19, Media Assets Managers (MAMs) were already moving to the cloud.
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