Flow in comparison

While online video services focus on only streaming or distributing video content, the Flow Works software provides a holistic solution with structure to organize complete production lines from camera over ingest, metadata enrichment, over online collaboration for users located elsewhere until versioning and final distribution.
The problem with online video services is that they only keep a small derivative of the file which no longer can be used for further video editing. What is missing in online video services is therefore the reuse of the files and in addition the deep archiving, which allows the originals to be stored for future use in another post production into any other content.

The collaboration services have the same problematics as online video services, being that they only store a derivative (proxy) of the file which makes the file unusable for future post productions. This type of services also do not enable deep archiving, making it impossible to access the original files when needed.
The Flow Works software includes a full-featured collaboration module with so called Rooms, that allows you to cooperate with both internal and external persons with ease while still benefiting from all other features of the system. With our system you get the collaboration tool included, eliminating the need for additional complexity through additional costly collaboration tools.

Like all the other online services, also file transfer tools only focus on one specific part of the complete media management chain. In general, they do not offer any media management services with basic features such as previewing, transcoding or working with metadata mostly not being available. For example metadata has to be delievered separately with text files, xml files or excel sheets while the software from Flow Works stores everything in one container. With our software you benefit from the built-in automated transcoder that optimizes file size before sharing. With this you can avoid sharing massive file sizes that both block Internet lines as well as take up costly storage space on both your side and in the recipients' storage solution.