MediaValet reviews

Great for content management

Pluspunten:

Clean UI with an easy search function. The built in AI function categorizes images based on the image itself and not user inputted descriptions.

Minpunten:

As of now, there are no cons that have stood out to me as a end user.

A great choice for asset management, and looking forward to improvements

Opmerkingen: Overall I've found it to be adequate, but I've received secondhand feedback from colleagues that it's not as intuitive as they had hoped. Many of our colleagues also just don't use it, which indicates it's not easy for everyone.

Pluspunten:

Customizable portals, lots of meta data, tracking capabilities, and supports a variety of formats.

Minpunten:

Somewhat clunky format, limitations on changing file names, no real mobile solution. Search function doesn't work as well as it should.

Fort Lewis College's experience with MediaValet

Opmerkingen: I was frustrated to not be able to select photos in bulk until the HotDAM released.

Pluspunten:

The search capabilities are pretty good.

Minpunten:

Overall layout, I wish it was more similar to Photoshelter.

Almost Perfect DAM

Opmerkingen: Overall, we've been happy with MediaValet for the archival needs of our assets. The use of the platform for sales and marketing efforts could be improved.

Pluspunten:

So many things to like: Solid, reliable storage, methods of tagging and categorizing, ease of searching and filtering for assets, versioning, approvals, reports, etc. The entire process is very easy yet very thorough.

Minpunten:

I think the interface is a bit stiff. Some of MediaValet's competitors have a more inviting user experience. We've also had some people on our team have a difficult time searching for assets. And, streaming playback has frequently been an issue. One of the reasons we chose MediaValet was because of the CDN capabilities that would allow us to create Client Portals that can be used during our sales presentations as well as by clients on their own. When playback stalls or doesn't begin at all, this is a big hinderance to doing business for us.

A Necessary Tool

Opmerkingen: Overall, MediaValet has been a fantastic and necessary tool to organization our companies digital assets. I wish I had more time to discover and implement all of it's capabilities.

Pluspunten:

There are lots of organizational and customizable options available making it easy to create options that work for your company.

Minpunten:

The search engine needs some fine tuning. Infrequent users that don't know the inventory well often are unable to track down what they are looking for. Hopefully the AI implementation of visual recognition will help with this in the new Hot DAM. I would also love the option to upload associated assets that DO NOT show in a search. We have editable files that we don't want everyone to easily access.

Easy to use, easy to customize

Opmerkingen: Overall, I would easily recommend MediaValet to anyone who is looking to take on a Digital Asset Management system.

Pluspunten:

We appreciate that MediaValet makes organizing and accessing our images and videos a breeze. The new AI features as well have really added to our ease of access for finding specific images. Also, the ability to create custom templates to download images in different resolutions and dimensions is fantastic.

Minpunten:

I know that it is just in BETA, but the UI between the classic version of MediaValet and the new AI powered HOTDAM is too different that it causes issues for users to re-adjust their understanding of the platform

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Opmerkingen: Overall it has been very helpful although it takes a while to develop a good image back but that would be the case with any such system.

Pluspunten:

Everything is easy to find and searchable. Downloads are easy, web portals are fairly easy to work with.

Minpunten:

It is a little difficult to rename a file. Links, especially public ones, are a little chunky to work with.

Erica Geldart's Review

Opmerkingen: My overall experience is positive. I like how organized Mediavalet is and I enjoy being able to browse photos contributed by my colleagues.

Pluspunten:

The ability to host photos belonging to a large group while also including all the necessary details about the photos. I like the bulk edits when you are uploading a number of photos at once.

Minpunten:

Sharing photos from mediavalet by creating a gallery is a bit slow, and the accompanying emails for each photo you share are a bit tedious. When embedding photos, it would be nice to have a way to pull a photo directly from Mediavalet instead of downloading, storing externally and uploading.

Experience Using MediaValet

Opmerkingen: So far, I haven't experienced any significant issues while using MediaValet. However, it initially required intensive training to be able to use the application effectively.

Pluspunten:

It allows storing files such as images, photos, and documents required by the team to monitor ongoing work or activities in the field. Additionally, it includes descriptions that help explain the uploaded images or documents, enabling the team to better understand the conditions in the field without needing to be physically present.

Minpunten:

Sometimes, some uploaded files are difficult to find or get deleted, requiring them to be reuploaded.

All worldwide and smaller entrerprises/companies should use Mediavalet !!

Opmerkingen: From loggin, search, find, and download files; theres a great experience on every step. Info and details are included too in order to make a fast job in the portal

Pluspunten:

Easy access, useful tools and filters to find what you are searching for

Minpunten:

Some files may be slower to start downloading

We love MediaValet!

Opmerkingen: I've had a lovely experience working with and using the MediaValet platform. Our internal team has an easy time using the DAM, while our partners love receiving our branded portals. It makes sharing assets a smooth process for all who are involved.

Pluspunten:

How easy it is to keep all of your assets organized.

Minpunten:

Honestly, there isn't anything that comes to mind.

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Pluspunten:

The search function of MediaValet is the best of any other solution I've seen. It can automatically detect colours, text and items in an asset making metadata management and searching easier.

Minpunten:

The branded portals are not as robust as the dam itself. I would like to be able to have sections within sections on a brand portal.

Nice Site that's easy to use

Opmerkingen: Honestly, I only use this for work, but it's pretty easy to use and one of the least annoying programs/sites I use

Pluspunten:

It's convenient to use and easy to find things

Minpunten:

None that I can think of. It's all pretty straight forward

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Pluspunten:

unlimited seats and unlimited admin spots

Minpunten:

That old front facing software feels really outdated

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Opmerkingen: Overall it is efficient and streamlines our sharing content across the college.

Pluspunten:

I like that it houses all of our media under one roof that makes it easy to share across departments.

Minpunten:

For new users navigating the upload process is a bit cumbersome.

Highly User-Friendly Library for Managing Images and Video

Opmerkingen: The fundamental problem we have solved is categorization and easily-accessible storage of a vast number of images of our products and capabilities coming in from a large range of sources literally around the world. A picture of a valve taken by a service person in the field in Mozambique can now be identified, categorized, described, and stored so that a senior VP in Edmonton can find it among a selection of other valve pictures, and download it for use in their presentation. Prior to MediaValet, the filing system for our 42,000-plus images was scattered among several document filing systems in several platforms across three corporations - and most often on local laptops of individuals who needed to make sure they could find what they wanted when they wanted it.

Pluspunten:

The most attractive features of MediaValet is the ease of use by anyone who wants to find a picture or video among thousands in our library. The keyword-driven search engine is the best feature of this software - the fact that it will instantly call up all images related to any word typed into the search engine makes the search process logical. The system does not need to deliver the exact photo - even a vague keyword will deliver a selection of pictures from which the user can readily pick out they need. Learning how to use it, as a user, is dead easy. Learning how to use it as a contributor requires about half an hour of training - which anyone can do. Learning how to perfect it can be left to enthusiastic detail-oriented librarian types in the organization who love the beauty of being able to fully (and I mean fully) categorize every aspect of a picture or video uploaded to MediaValet. It is intuitive and useful to ALL levels of prospective users. As a result - integration with our existing business processes was easy - but more importantly, logical and seen as an enhancement rather than "another software thing we have to learn".

Minpunten:

There is only one thing about MediaValet that needs to be changed. An example is the best way to illustrate: If you take a picture of a piece of equipment using your iPhone, that image file is given a title by your iPhone's software - typically something like "IMG_0341.jpg". When taking that image to upload to MediaValet, it is necessary to change the file name to something meaningful to people in the organization using a commonly-understood naming convention that makes the filename descriptive of what is in the image. This process is easily taught and understood. What MediaValet needs to address is what happens when that image is selected and downloaded for use. The filename assigned to it upon upload to MediaValet REVERTS to the original filename once downloaded. So, even though you have renamed the picture "Stream-Flo_Wellhead_Exxon.jpg", once you download it, it reverts to "IMG_0341.jpg". If you are absorbed in the process of downloading several images, there is no longer any way to identify what's in each of those pictures once they are downloaded. I think once this challenge is addressed by MediaValet, the system will be darn near perfect. The way we address this now is to advise users that when they are downloading pictures, they need to write down something from the image description next to the file name so that they can identify it after download.

Mediavalet: The good and the not quite as good

Opmerkingen: 99.9% satisfied. We spent alot of time testing asset management softwares. We tried to break them and make them mess up on purpose to find their shortcomings. As we know shortcomings are time and energy draining. In working with MediaValet we tried to break it and it was difficult and mostly unsuccessful (which is a good thing). MediaValet is a solid digital asset management system.

Pluspunten:

Cognitive metadata is a game changer. It is surprisingly accurate and you don't have to enter keywords if you don't want to because Cognitive Metadata creates some for you. Making different categories and groups of images is useful when needing to send sets of commonly used images. And making lightboxes is great for sharing or making personally used collections.

Minpunten:

Not being able to create a Lightbox on the fly is slightly annoying. You have to create it first, then search and select images for a Lightbox. It would be nice to be able to search and create a lightbox from the selected images instead.

Productivity made easy

Pluspunten:

Assets archiving and sharing make the work flow a lot more productive.

Minpunten:

Having to login too often is annoying, when you are super busy and that Login window pops up, it doesn't help.

Perfect for emailing digital literature to customers

Opmerkingen: I use Mediavalet weekly to access NSC information for customers.

Pluspunten:

How I can search for the content i need and download easily to send out to customers.

Minpunten:

Good platform for housing company info. I have been happy with all of the content and how it is accessed within the site. no problems

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Pluspunten:

Easy to use & navigate. This is being used by one of our vendors and was shared with me as a way to access content

Minpunten:

Nothing comes to mind, it was user friendly and I was using it to access content so didn't have to dive in too deep

Very good user experience

Pluspunten:

It is very easy to use and you just can do what you need to do

Minpunten:

There is nothing to address here. My use case is limited to access media from a centralized point and this just works perfectly

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Opmerkingen: very good!

Pluspunten:

It is organized and I like the content that is supported.

Minpunten:

I would like to see more content relevant to my job.

MediaValet delivers on a great experience, cool tech and an incredible 2-way, supportive partnership

Opmerkingen: Simply put: before MediaValet we had no Golden Master of any of our published resources. We now do, and so much more. The service has ensured we have a "safety net" in case anything catastrophic happens to our onsite data, we've realized time efficiencies knowing we have a great system of record and we're just starting to roll it out to the greater organization for consumption.

Pluspunten:

The negotiation and onboarding process was done in a very cooperative manner, and they were very good at dealing with some very tight timelines for the initial setup! As well, we had an abnormal ask for a particular project that they were not expecting but worked with us to develop a solution for. Since then, they have worked with us and our security teams to ensure the experience not only uncompromisingly delivers their core functionality, but also meets our security team's needs.

Minpunten:

The interface feels sturdy and works well, but doesn't feel overly "cutting edge". All-in-all not a game changer, but sometimes a dated UI/Design can introduce unintentional barriers to adoption or advocacy.

Meeting branding requirements with ease

Opmerkingen: Before all of our content had to go through our marketing & comms team which would take forever. This has made the process much easier.

Pluspunten:

The product makes creating marketing content easy and ensuring brand alignment a breeze.

Minpunten:

Takes some getting used to the formatting features if you are not familiar with using this kind of editing software.

Better than a shared drive

Opmerkingen: MediaValet is a huge improvement over working with shared drives, we could never go back, the time saved searching for assets or even previewing an asset for a new project is never-ending.

Pluspunten:

MediaValet has a very good search and overall interface for finding your assets, version control is a real bonus.

Minpunten:

We are used to some fairly simple collaboration features like mentions that would be a great addition to the platform otherwise comments just get lost and forgotten about. Ability to visually crop / resize assets before downloading the rendition would help the more non technical users in the team otherwise they need to have Adobe installed then download the original and then export the asset. You can set the dimensions on export which is great but there is no option to lock the aspect ratio which takes away from the experiance for less technical team members.