Fast Uploads and Downloads in Your DAM: Ingest, Metadata, and Transcoding at Scale

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Quick Takeaways
  • Orange Logic adds and retrieves assets at one gigabyte a second, with no upload file-size limit.
  • Automated ingest extracts metadata, detects duplicates, and routes assets through required workflows from the moment they're uploaded.
  • Flexible downloads let users transcode, batch download, and embed metadata so every asset arrives in the format they need.

Slow transfers and messy ingest are where many DAM programs lose momentum. Large video files stall, metadata gets skipped at upload, and users end up downloading originals and converting them by hand.

Orange Logic is built to add or retrieve assets at one gigabyte a second, and to capture the metadata you need from the start. Here's how uploads, ingest, and downloads work in the platform.

How Fast Are Uploads in Orange Logic?

  • 1 GB/second connection. Get a fast, consistent upload speed.
  • No upload limit. Upload any file size to OrangeDAM.
  • Third-party uploads. If granted access, third parties can upload assets and add metadata.

Simplify Ingest With Automation

Get the metadata you need as soon as you upload. Automatically extract metadata from assets, detect duplicates, and set up ingest workflows that prompt users to add required metadata to your digital asset management platform right from the start.

Checksum and duplicate detection

  • Detect duplicate files using checksum and/or visual recognition.
  • Generate checksums for files on ingest using MD5 algorithms, and validate checksums on ingest when they're submitted with assets.

Ingest, extract, and embed metadata

  • Enforce metadata fields on ingest.
  • Automatically extract and display technical metadata and attributes such as bitrate, colorspace, and encoding formats for audio or video.
  • Automatically extract and display IPTC, EXIF, and XMP metadata embedded in image files.
  • Batch ingest metadata from external sources.
  • Configure multiple ingest workflows, such as checks for required metadata or user approval, then automatically route assets through the required workflows at ingest.

Learn more about keeping assets organized with DAM metadata and taxonomy.

Tracking and reporting

  • Track ingest status with the percentage complete per asset and a status bar showing overall progress.
  • Email users a full report of ingest results.

What File Types Does Orange Logic Support?

OrangeDAM is file-agnostic and supports the formats creative and marketing teams use every day, including:

  • Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator (AI and EPS), InDesign (INDD), Photoshop (PSD), and Premiere Pro (PRPROJ)
  • Microsoft Office: Word (DOC and DOCX), Excel (XLS and XLSX), and PowerPoint (PPT and PPTX)
  • Images: All common formats, including GIF, JPG, TIFF, PNG, RAW, DNG, SVG, BMP, and more
  • Video: All common formats, including MP4, MOV, AVI, SWF, FLV, and WMV
  • Graphics: All common graphics formats, Sketch, and more
  • Audio: All common formats, including MP3, MP4, WAV, AIF, AAC, and WMA
  • Documents: Born-digital files and digitized print material, including PDF and RTF
  • HD and project files: Including Final Cut
  • Other formats: Including ZIP files and more

Flexible, Fast Downloads

Downloads should give each user the version they need, not just the original file.

  • Download and transcode multiple assets at once.
  • Suggest preset transcodes on download, such as web quality, social media, print quality, or original file for images.
  • Let users set custom transcode specifications for image downloads, including format (GIF, JPG, TIF, BMP, or PNG), colorspace (such as sRGB, Adobe RGB 1998, Apple RGB, or DonRGB), resolution (dpi), and pixel dimensions.
  • Convert video files on the fly by changing the file extension, video codec, video bitrate, resolution, audio codec, and/or audio bitrate.
  • Batch download assets in multiple sizes or formats.
  • Let authorized users reorder the upload and download queue to move high-priority requests up.
  • Display download status in the user dashboard.
  • Embed IPTC metadata into files on download, download metadata as text files, and bulk download metadata for a selection of assets.

Case Study: Connecting Headspace Through DAM

Find out what happened when the health and wellness company brought more than 60% of its organization under one digital asset management umbrella. Read the Headspace case study.

Want to see how fast uploads and downloads work with your own content? Book a demo of Orange Logic.

FAQs: DAM Uploads and Downloads

How fast can you upload files to Orange Logic?

Orange Logic adds or retrieves assets at one gigabyte a second, giving you a fast, consistent upload speed.

Is there a file-size limit for uploads?

No. You can upload any file size to OrangeDAM.

What file types does Orange Logic support?

OrangeDAM supports Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office files, all common image, video, audio, and graphics formats, PDF and RTF documents, HD and project files such as Final Cut, and other formats including ZIP files.

How does the DAM detect duplicate files?

Orange Logic detects duplicates using checksum and/or visual recognition. It generates MD5 checksums on ingest and can validate checksums submitted with assets.

Can users convert files when they download them?

Yes. Users can choose preset transcodes, set custom image specifications such as format, colorspace, resolution, and dimensions, and convert video codecs, bitrates, and resolution on the fly. Batch downloads in multiple sizes or formats are also supported.

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Orange Logic is an enterprise digital asset management and media asset management platform that delivers agentic content orchestration. Purpose-built for enterprises where content is mission-critical to revenue, compliance, and customer experience, Orange Logic unifies digital assets, rights, workflows and governance into a single governed content layer. Teams rely on it to get content to market faster while maintaining governance and connecting it to business outcomes.