Features | Sony's Ci Media Cloud

Powerful cloud storage for creative workflows

The secure single source of truth that enables streamline operations by eliminating messy folders, content in silos, asset misuse, and distribution roadblocks.

Simple, fast file acquisition

• Get your content from point A to Ci
• Get the most out of your bandwidth with accelerated file transfers
• Set up a File Request to get content from remote contributors
• Gather content directly from network-enabled cameras

Learn more about our remote file contribution capabilities

• Browser upload
• Remote file contribution
• High-speed file transfer
• Built-in Aspera transfer
• Metadata templates
• FTP service
• Folder and bulk upload
• Live stream

Media Processing and Enrichment

• Automate time-consuming tasks
• Automatically render highly functional proxies and extract metadata during ingest to save time later
• Eliminate single-task solutions dedicated to moving, storing, logging, and processing files
• Log, publish, clip, and enable search for custom time-based metadata on files or live streams

Learn more about our video logging app

• Auto-transcoding
• Create clips and frame grabs
• File notes
• AI-powered metadata tagging
• Auto metadata extraction
• Metadata templates
• Caption extraction
• Custom proxy generation
• Custom renders
• File element upload
• Auto-QC
• Time-based video logging

Search and Discovery

• Seamlessly search across all content stored in Ci

• Filter and sort your content using metadata

• Preview media files instantly without losing your work context

• Discover recently added and favorite content to get back to things quickly

• Recent searches

• Search filters

• Recently added

• Favorites

• Boolean search

• Metadata search

• AI-powered related files

• Metadata-based table view

• Export CSV for search results

• Thumbnail preview & video scrubbing

• Logged event search

Cloud productivity toolkit

• Review with anyone with Review apps, then run a global screening with the LiveSession add-on
• Premiere Pro panel integration to access content without leaving Premiere Pro
• Create clips from live streams while still on-air
• Create storyboards on the fly and export to your favorite NLE or render a web-viewable rough cut

Learn more about our review and approval app

• Comment & annotate
• Premiere Pro integration
• Synced real-time playback
• Create clips & frame grabs
• Source quality frame preview
• Create storyboards
• Custom renders
• Video & Audio level analysis
• Cropping guides
• Export NLE markers

Sharing and Distribution

• Easy link-sharing with blazing-fast transfers and security measures including password protection, expiration date, and watermarking
• Access models for collaborative production or finished catalog content
• Skip the download and deliver directly where you want it

Learn more about our sharing and delivery tools

• Link-based preview & delivery
• Burn-in watermarking
• Dynamic watermarking
• Built-in Aspera transfer
• Send to Aspera node/AWS S3 location
• Contact sheets
• Share attached files & generated proxies
• User lists for scaled distribution
• Password protection

Content Management

• A centralized repository for the smallest teams to the largest organizations

• Customizable access with granular permissions

• Easily shift storage tiers or automate content management with storage policies to save time and costs

• Flexible access control models

• Tiered archive and restore

• Bring your own storage (AWS)

• Content lifecycle management

• Usage analytics

Workflow Automation

• Prepare your content for the next step automatically

• Free up resources from manual transcode and transformation steps

• Leverage AI to enrich content with search-ready metadata

• Content lifecycle management

• Custom proxy generation

• Auto metadata extraction

• Auto speech-to-text transcription

• AI-powered metadata tagging

• Auto-QC

• REST API

Branded look and feel

• Customize your platform experience
• Maintain your brand image both internally and externally
• Customize your companies Log-in experience
• Make your brand stay on point with your branded file contribution and preview links

Administration

• Optimized for enterprises supporting teams with varying workflows
• Fast and easy set-up and intuitive interface for high adoption
• Flexible billing and admin structures

Security

• Secure media with automatic end-to-end encryption on all content in-transit and at rest
• Fine-tune settings to meet your company’s security policies
• Follow ISO 27001 compliance standards

Support

• Broad knowledge base articles for easy onboarding and feature user guides
• Network-tier customers receive priority assistance from our world-class customer success team

Integrations and APIs

• Robust REST API for core functions and ever-increasing features
• Extend your existing on-prem systems to the cloud
• Built-in integrations enable users to access Ci content seamlessly

Tools and Apps

• MediaBox: Create a link to securely and easily share content for preview and delivery
• File Request: Create a link where users can upload files directly to a predefined folder
• External Transfers: Seamlessly deliver content directly to external locations
• Image/Video Review: Preview, comment, annotate, and review content with your whole team
• RoughCut: Trim and stitch clips to create a storyboard from multiple video files
• MediaLog: Log time-based metadata within videos, search for these logs, and create clips

View our tools and apps