Digital Asset Managment System

Discovery Communications hired Art & Logic to develop a customized Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. The software allows Discovery to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of images per year. Discovery can ingest images from multiple sources, tag with metadata, rank, and comment. The software manages approvals with users inside and outside of the system, and shares images with media partners. Art & Logic designed a UI that caters to Discovery's production workflow and use case feedback. more...

Discovery Communications hired Art & Logic to develop a customized Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. The software allows Discovery to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of images per year. Discovery can ingest images from multiple sources, tag with metadata, rank, and comment. The software manages approvals with users inside and outside of the system, and shares images with media partners. Art & Logic designed a UI that caters to Discovery's production workflow and use case feedback. Finally, Art & Logic migrated the data from Discovery's legacy systems.

TAGS:  Web  Broadcasting

Virtual Patchbay Application

Otari hired Art & Logic to develop a virtual patchbay application that controls how pieces of audio equipment communicate over a firewire network. Art & Logic solved a number of difficult design problems including how to quickly display and update the thousands of connection possiblities between multiple audio devices. This software is currently used in real-time production at locations such as television stations and live performance theatres.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Audio  Desktop  FireWire  Music  Broadcasting  Pro Audio

NBCUPhotobank.com Delivers Entertainment Images to Media Companies

NBCUPhotobank.com was developed by Art & Logic for Lightbox Network to deliver selected content from NBC's digital asset management application, also developed by Art & Logic for Lightbox Network, to media outlets and publications. Media users can browse or search the site for celebrity images and shows from any NBCU network and register to gain access to high-res content. NBCU admins determine access restrictions for registered users, such as how many images per month a user may download or whether they can use a credit card to purchase licenses.

TAGS:  Mobile  MySQL  PHP  jQuery  AJAX  LAMP  PHP5  ImageMagick  Photography  Broadcasting

Audio Recording and Editing Application

Poddio is an audio recording and editing application for iPhone and iPod touch from Vericorder Technology, Inc. The app is a fully integrated professional quality recording studio used by journalists and others in the broadcasting industry. Art & Logic's expertise in iPhone development and in Core Audio were key to the success of this project.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  Audio  iPod touch  Core Audio  Broadcasting

Web portal for mobile devices

MallTV, LLC hired Art & Logic to translate their MallTV WAP application for use on iPhones. Since Safari on the iPhone does not support Flash, the implementation uses Javascript although the resulting interface looks and behaves just like the Flash version. MallTV is a portal for cell phones and television and links users to popular third-party third-party websites. A&L created scripts to parse throught ESPN's mobile content and convert it to the MallTV matrix format, now called MallMobi. The ESPNMall pages are updated every 30 minutes and cached on the MallTV server. more...

MallTV, LLC hired Art & Logic to translate their MallTV WAP application for use on iPhones. Since Safari on the iPhone does not support Flash, the implementation uses Javascript although the resulting interface looks and behaves just like the Flash version. MallTV is a portal for cell phones and television and links users to popular third-party third-party websites. A&L created scripts to parse throught ESPN's mobile content and convert it to the MallTV matrix format, now called MallMobi. The ESPNMall pages are updated every 30 minutes and cached on the MallTV server. The Matrix is dyamically created depending on the number of links found on each ESPN page that are associated with numbered keys on the phone. In order to maintain capatibility with the Blackberry, iPhone, and Treo, text was converted to images for the interface because it was discovered that not all devices support all font sizes. Separate versions were created iPhone, and MobilePC/Blackberry/Treo.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  JavaScript  HTML  BlackBerry  Safari  WAP  Entertainment  Retail  Broadcasting  Marketing  Sales  Advertising

Audio Watermarking Application for Verance

Art & Logic was hired by Verance to port the original Mac OS version of the ConfirMedia application to Windows, and later to a native Cocoa application for Mac OS X, by creating a multi-platform unified code base. Verance also hired Art & Logic to develop a Windows Mobile version of ConfirMedia. ConfirMedia is an innovative audio watermarking solution designed to protect, manage, and monitor audio content, including broadcast monitoring and verification, copy protection, and content management.

TAGS:  Objective-C  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Windows  Audio  Xcode  C++  Desktop  Visual C++  PACE  InstallShield  doxygen  Installer VISE X  Broadcasting