Digital Asset Management, iPhoto / Aperture server... alternative
- by Sisyphus
Afternoon,
Clients, 10 : All Apples running either Leopard or Snow Leopard
Server : Snow Leopard server, (and I have a old Dell Poweredge 650 at home running Gentoo 2.6, if anybody as a Linux solution).
The situation:
I work in small design company with 8 people, at present we are looking to consolidate all our image files onto one location, at present we each use our preferred single user DAM solution, be it, Adobe Bridge, iPhoto/Aperture (some don't bother at all)
The filetypes commonly used are .psd, .pdf, .eps, .tiff, .jpg and RAW image files.
Ideally what is needed:
Centralised on one server, but allows us to search via spotlight (not essential, but would be nice)
Include searchable metadata information such as date, location, title
Open-source or as low cost as possibly
Allow simultaneous users to import files
So far, I have looked at a few open source DAM, systems, such as Razuna, Gallery (not strictly DAM), ResourceSpace, Notre-DAM, while these are brilliant and open-source, they don't integrate as smoothly with the Desktop as iPhoto and aperture.
For iPhoto and aperture, I have tried creating a Shared library on the server (a tad laggy), and also using a drive with no permissions, put a library and letting each client read from it, however if they want to put images onto the library only, it's only supports one user at a time writing to the library...
Any ideas what could fulfill our needs? Or is it time to bite the bullet for FinalCut Server?
Thanks in advance.
