iconik Reviews

I love the way it has helped my team and network of freelancers to break away from the rusty anchors of hard drives and expensive servers. Recently, one of our freelancers uploaded 150 clips from Kinshasa. He then added keywords and the name of interviewees to his work. That day, I can honestly say I was rather moved. It all started when Mattia showed us around Iconik and sent us a trial version with 1 hour of first meeting him. He totally lifted the veil of mystery from things like Azure. On the day we met Mattia and Iconik, we were almost up and running. That day, cloud based severs had lost most of its mysticism.

Our favourite features are:

-the people at Iconik: good listeners, fast and pro active.

-user interface

-ability to plug into many cloud space in a really simple way.

-ability to move data from one server to another through Iconik.

-ability to add time coded comments, then used as subtitle guide.

-ability to connect clips to consent forms etc.

-total flexibility on metadata fields

-Pay as you go. You've read that well. PAY AS YOU GO! Use it in a way that you can afford.

-So much more.

Thanks for being awesome!

There's nothing I truly dislike but I know that soon batch upload will be a little bit easier. Every time I think about this, I also reality check myself: "Here I am, expecting to upload hundreds GB of footage through my bog standard wifi". Yep, Iconik has turned me into this guy.

It solves a range of challenges that we thought were highly technical and expensive. EVERYONE with the right permission and the weakest internet access can now browse our footage. Matias in Barcelona: yes. Alain in Goma: yes. Bintou in Niamey: yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. it's now just so easy to find footage, check it's consented, transcribe interviews and annotate exports. Wait. Somebody wants to withdraw their consent and we've got to restrict access to all the footage in which they feature: easy. easy. easy. And so on.

-> Creating Low Resolution / Proxy video & asset from our own workstation or server, locally from the set or uploading on the road, to able editors starting the job and then relink with High Resolution, without wasting time

-> Creating & sharing collection for customers, faster than FTP or WeTransfer, able them to have a look at the file in their smarpthone before downloading High Resolution

-> Editorial partner / TV Channel can access our production efficiently with rights selection to watch videos and/or validate them and/or add comments for modificaitons

-> Backup offline on cold hardrive in the shelf and online on one NAS Synology and another NAS (disaster recovery) with Freeenas ... and always know and browse media files

-> Transfer / manage / drive files from one location to another location, which could be server or workstations or cloud ... thanks to the iconik ISG Gateway

-> Archive & restore clean-feed & master to cloud and be able to manage files in a hurry on the road to a client for the day before ....

Today, 2020.06.04 :

... no GPU acceleration

... OpAtom not supported

... managing & monitoring several audio tracks on a video file

... play more than 1 audio track with 2 channel L/R not yet available

... no way to rewrap / change audio track of a video media file from other audio files

... .stl (ebu) subtitle not supported : have to convert them to .srt and works like a charm

Stop wasting time and money : work efficiently !!

Not wasting time anymore :

-> Know where all our production are stored and quick find them

-> Quick share media files with browsing low resolution video before downloading huge media file in high resolution

-> No need to install a client software to access to media files : it just:works with a browser as Chrome and/or Firefox

It's the asset management you always dreamt about but thought you could never afford or was scared to commit to. Iconik is designed from the ground up to be the hybrid Cloud, headache-free SaaS, which doesn't get in the way of the existing folder based workflows. It mirrors on-prem infrastructure to the cloud without forcing to change the operations unlike other MAMs that "want to rule it all" . It enables seamless transition between on-prem to remote, cloud operations. To bring your own cloud, be that AWS or GCP, is super straightforward via its UI or, if you fancy, via API. The monthly costs associated with Iconik are mostly centered on the user accounts, so it's easy to scale down or up the operations, or even bring it down to a bare minimum ( 1 user a month) if you just want to keep the metadata and still track the assets. Iconik can handle production of any size: there is no fear of hitting a dreaded number of maximum assets. Iconik openly published the overview of its infrastructure services: it's agile and infinitely scalable. Its integration with Adobe Suite of production tools is top notch. It's amazing solution that immediately solves the most pressing problems of a modern media production. With the current need to migrate production to remote workflows, it's indispensable.

Nothing major comes to mind. I think the next big step for Iconik is to build a community of users and developers to open source Iconik centric API interactions with various solutions. Iconik was built with API first goal, so the sky is the limit here.

I would recommend to immediately integrate Iconik with your own cloud accounts, e.g. AWS, to achieve more cost savings by introducing archive storage tiers, e.g. Deep Glacier

Enable to quickly migrate / mirror on-prem storage to the cloud via Iconik Storage Gateways. Immediate review and approval of assets while in production. Easy remote operations of any scale. Iconik enables seamless operation and collaboration of on-prem, off-site and cloud based editing workstations.

Iconik has made content management available to users with minimal learning.

The integration into our existing workflows was made easier using API.

Metadata management is very well thought out.

Support is excellent and response times have been good.

Being able to use our own cloud object storage.

It would be great if the notifications could be customized a bit more.

I don't like that navigating away from upload page stops upload without a warning.

Being able to have collaboration and input from multiple sources instantly.

Review and Approval.

Metadata management.

API integration to most of our environments.

The ability to provide our clients a content management solution they don't need weeks of training on.

Permission based access on multiple user levels.

It's the asset management you always dreamt about but thought you could never afford or was scared to commit to. Iconik is designed from the ground up to be the hybrid Cloud, headache-free SaaS, which doesn't get in the way of the existing folder based workflows. It mirrors on-prem infrastructure to the cloud without forcing to change the operations unlike other MAMs that "want to rule it all" . It enables seamless transition between on-prem to remote, cloud operations. To bring your own cloud, be that AWS or GCP, is super straightforward via its UI or, if you fancy, via API. The monthly costs associated with Iconik are mostly centered on the user accounts, so it's easy to scale down or up the operations, or even bring it down to a bare minimum ( 1 user a month) if you just want to keep the metadata and still track the assets. Iconik can handle production of any size: there is no fear of hitting a dreaded number of maximum assets. Iconik openly published the overview of its infrastructure services: it's agile and infinitely scalable. Its integration with Adobe Suite of production tools is top notch. It's amazing solution that immediately solves the most pressing problems of a modern media production. With the current need to migrate production to remote workflows, it's indispensable.

Nothing major comes to mind. I think the next big step for Iconik is to build a community of users and developers to open source Iconik centric API interactions with various solutions. Iconik was built with API first goal, so the sky is the limit here.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Cloud native approach to media manaagement. Ease of configuring gateways and cloud storage targets

Asset types are limited. Camera media, image sequences, or other custom assets types would be great.

Marketing and Creative media management, review and approval

Iconik is very searchable and has a lot of functionality.

I wish you could adjust the size of the navigation bars which one uses to scroll up and down and side to side on the page. Those bars are too small and are hard to click on and use.

I also wish that when you do a keyword search, that Iconik would tell you HOW MANY times a keyword exists in the metadata of an asset from a list view.

Also, my coworkers have complained that the Iconik support staff is not very responsive.

I solve the issue of storing video and audio data and making it searchable across many parameters.