MediaValet has saved me from the drudgery of office life. I have more time to take stunning pictures of Arkansas.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MediaValet is a foundational tool to our enterprise, just behind my camera and computer. I have logged tens of thousands of pictures across two years. it is an invaluable tool for organizing and distributing a large collection of videos and images. It allows me and my photographic partner to populate a site used by hundreds of end users. End users find the system intuitive, and we are freed from office and distribution time to go take more stunning pictures of Arkansas.
Pros
- We love Portals, as a means of creating, editing and sending collections of pictures
- The tagging system allows for end users to find our photos, without knowing where we put them
- The system is quick
- Apart from our initial edit for size, customers gets full sized uncompressed files
Cons
- We have SO many images in the system, that sometimes our good work is buried under the average. I would like a way to bring certain images to the top of the search.
- Some search terms are not very effective because they pull up too much. For example, I need to find photos of the Arkansas River. But not every picture in our system is of a river in Arkansas! (There are ways to get around this, but it takes some extra steps.)
- We might have set up our initial structure a little differently had we known how we were going to use it. Essentially we have some pictures for insiders eyes, and some for public use. (We can separate our offerings on upload, but a toggle switch would be useful)
Most Important Features
- The ability to designate who can see what
- Batch keywording
- Portals. We love Portals.
Return on Investment
- We can download photos from anywhere. I can add, or access images from home as easily as work.
- We have literally freed a person who would be in the office to go take pictures of our beautiful state.
- The downloads are the same quality as the uploads!
