March 11, 2016 •Antra Silova
Canto have just released their AUS (for Austin, Texas!) release of Flight. This latest release gives users many new BIG features, such as digital rights management capabilities with embedded watermarks, Copyright controls and ability to attach your organisation’s Terms & Conditions, and new editing and conversion features prior to download – to smaller but significant features such as setting a time zone and screen auto-refresh after upload. But first – the big features!
Digital Right Management
Linking your Terms & Conditions
You can add a link to your assets to your company’s Terms and Conditions so that Passengers can then view and accept them.
Asset Information window with Terms and Conditions box
Copyright controls
If assets already have copyright information embedded in them, you can view the existing copyright information or you can add or edit the text in the Copyright text box.
Asset Information window with Copyright box
Watermarking
Upload a watermark you would like to use and watermark individual assets – you can decide where to show the watermark on the asset.
Asset Information window with watermarking box
You can allow Passengers to download the original file but the same file would be watermarked when accessed in your portals.
Editing and Conversion Features
Other improvements with the new release include editing and conversion features enabling users to modify assets eg crop or zoom, and to select a video format prior to download.
Crop Before Download
Before downloading the desired image you can select in Advanced Options the crop area, size and file type to be downloaded – or you can simply download the original file as uploaded.
Asset editing before download
Video Conversion
Select the desired file type for your movie download in Advanced Options.
Movie conversion before download
And Yet More…
With this release of Flight AUS release, Canto is really putting a focus on user experience. In addition you can also:
• set a time zone so that expiration dates etc match your preferred date and time
• auto-refresh after upload so you see changes or new assets immediately
• browse folders and albums faster with increased processing power
• get a single sign-on option.
It is still simply the best and easiest to use cloud DAM but with added features that enhance and expand the user’s experience.
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Written by Antra Silova, Media Specialist DataBasics, March 2016
References
More information about Flight and comparison with Cumulus.
DataBasics Flight Corporate Fact sheet.
Contact us for your own demo Flight instance or walkthrough.