MediaBeacon

Media editing experience

What do you like best? The features have been very much simplified and easy to use What do you dislike? Some of the advanced features r difficult to use What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Media presentations, product brochures, help documents etc

Our experience with MediaBeacon has been mixed.

What do you like best? The best aspect of MediaBeacon R3volution is that it is web based and requires no extra software for any of our users. The search filters are very powerful and can truly enhance a search by narrowing and refining the search parameters via filters. What do you dislike? We dislike the non standard interface elements such as the viewing pane that looks like Windows Explorer but does not work the same way. A general lack of feedback to the user when accomplishing tasks ...

Mediabeacon

What do you like best? allows us to organize our assets much more efficiently. where I wasn't able to find other videos, media beacon has allowed me to search for more ambiguous assets with its search function. it allows us to search by show, which is huge, and when we can't find file names from other asset management platforms, media beacon usually helps us find it. the best part is that it allows us to search beyond just series, but across all our assets, like documentaries, movies, ...

Media Beacon For Asset Management

What do you like best? Media Beacon allows for easy upload up large numbers of assets. You can have thousands of assets totaling gigabytes in size. The platform is also customizable for your business look and feel as well as process. What do you dislike? The API's for loading assets programatically are not fully baked and do not have great documentation Recommendations to others considering the product Media Beacon is very good if you do not need to programatically add assets What ...

Hard to sift Through

What do you like best? I enjoy its clean and sleek design. It is easy on the eyes. My job ask us to grab footage fast from MediaBeacon so its clean design makes it easy to enter in info. I also really enjoy the it saves my log in user name making it easier to click right into looking in. I also enjoy that it is customized towards Showtime being called Redspace. I also like that you can separate the items from image, video and print. Making it easier to make a smaller list to look through. ...

Great search capabilities but difficult to deploy

What do you like best? The searchability is very in-depth and interprets content and metadata in multiple, customizable ways to allow several options users' different search preferences. With the proper set-up and dedication before launch, you can really take control of your metadata to serve your specific users' needs. What do you dislike? The deployment timeline went well beyond initial expectations. Communication from individuals at MediaBeacon was not consistent. They started off ...

Horrible experience with software and customer service.

What do you like best? There is little to say here. Everything we once had been excited about does not work as expected. There is nothing in the software that can not be found elsewhere. What do you dislike? Software: While working with MediaBeacon, I took on a new job of troubleshooting. I wrote up endless reports of features that were not functioning correctly. Countless hours were spend troubleshooting and recording bugs and errors that never got corrected (even after installing 4 ...