## How you can use Ci

Let Ci be your one-stop shop for media workflows. Share, collect, review, manage and process media files in one single cloud storage subscription for your whole team.

- [File sharing & delivery](/content/solutions/use-cases/#share/index.html)
- [File gathering & upload](/content/solutions/use-cases/#collect/index.html)
- [Review & approve](/content/solutions/use-cases/#review/index.html)
- [Manage & archive](/content/solutions/use-cases/#manage/index.html)
- [Media processing](/content/solutions/use-cases/#process/index.html)

- 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

Link-based preview & delivery

- Burn-in watermarking
- Dynamic watermarking
- Forensic 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

- Maintain your brand image both internally and externally
- Customize your company's log-in experience
- Make your brand stay on point with your branded file contribution and preview link

- Custom URL
- Branded file contribution links
- Branded link-based preview
- Branded log-in experience

- Simple file, proxy, and folder link sharing
- Control download, expiration dates or add watermarks for extra security
- Track open, preview, and download activity

- Deliver files directly to Aspera nodes and AWS S3
- Automate, monitor, and track the delivery status

- 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

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

- Allow contributors to upload files directly to your Ci folder
- Request metadata from contributors
- Enable high-speed file transfer to your contributors
- Receive automatic notifications to completely streamline your media acquisition workflow

- Upload photos and videos directly from Sony cameras via WiFi
- Upload files and live streams over 5G with Sony’s PDT-FP1
- Transfer files, proxies, and live streams with Sony’s C3 Portal
- Transfer files with ATOMOS and Teradek devices

[Learn more about camera to cloud workflows](/content/integrations/#c2c/index.html)

- Add comments to audio, image, and video files
- Mark-up and annotate on-frame, or on timecodes and time-ranges
- Share and receive feedback with mark-ups from guests

- Search, preview & upload files to Workspace
- Optimized for viewing and browsing smaller screens
- Download files for offline viewing
- Send MediaBox share-links
- Add comments on-the-go

[Learn more about Ci Media Cloud Mobile](/content/tools-and-apps/mobile-app/index.html)

- Preview professional video, audio, and image file formats on your Apple TV 4K device
- Browse through all MediaBoxes shared with you
- Secure Ci login and 2FA support

- Collaborate on images or videos with peers in real-time
- Frame-accurate annotations and comments can be exported as NLE markers
- Launch a LiveSession for synced preview and markups

- 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

- Log time-based metadata on live streams or files
- Configurable metadata templates to enable standardized log data
- Built-in clipping and one-click publishing to enable search

- 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

- Free up resources from manual transcode and transformation steps
- Leverage AI to enrich content with search-ready metadata
- Get the most out of your existing solutions by building cloud extensions with Ci’s robust API

- Content lifecycle management
- Custom proxy generation
- Auto metadata extraction
- Auto speech-to-text transcription
- AI-powered metadata tagging
- Auto-QC
- REST API

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

- Platform administration
- Consolidated billing
- Usage analytics
- User lists for scaled distribution
- SSO integration
- Configurable email notifications
- Workspace activity stream
- Alerts & notifications

- 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

- Platform administration
- Multi-factor authentication
- Usage analytics
- Forensic watermarking
- Burn-in watermarking
- Dynamic watermarking
- Workspace activity stream
- SSO integration
- Bring your own storage (AWS)
- Flexible access control models
- Support for data loss prevention
- Password protection

- 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

- 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

- Render to mp4 or custom formats, including same-as-source
- Drag start and end points on the timeline
- Fit or fill to frame and add fade-in/out for social posts
- Add handles and save custom metadata from the source file

- Kick-off a VFX pull workflow by uploading an EDL
- Automatic delivery of output to designated recipients

- Create clips, arrange, and create storyboards on-the-fly
- Export storyboards as EDL or XML files
- Render preview-ready files for immediate sharing