The staff from CYME is at the moment in Las Vegas at NAB, presenting the most recent replace to their Mac-only asset administration device Peakto. While I gave the app a full overview again in 2023, again then it was way more of a photograph administration device, and now, Peakto can work straight with video belongings too. While a few of these options are current within the public v2.3.5, the brand new v2.4 (at the moment in preview and on present at NAB) provides many extra options. Let’s have a look.
Recapping the fundamentals
Peakto is a Digital Asset Management (DAM) answer that means that you can search throughout many sources, managed by many alternative apps, throughout a number of storage units, even when they’re offline, suddenly, with the assistance of native AI recognition. To get began, you’ll add in libraries or catalogs managed by Final Cut Pro 11, Premiere Pro 2024 or 2025, Aperture, Lightroom, Photos, Capture One, Topaz AI, and others.
After processing, you possibly can search via all of it, or via particular collections. The attraction of a DAM that spans a number of media sources and a number of initiatives is obvious for any customers engaged on massive business initiatives or ever-growing private picture collections.
Search and metadata help in Peakto is complete and quick, with many choices. If you’ve even culled hundreds of pictures right down to the easiest, you’ll in all probability know that including star scores after which filtering on them is a fast and straightforward option to give attention to the perfect content material rapidly. I’ve used this technique in Lightroom for years and it really works simply as properly right here throughout a number of media varieties.
As properly as scores, you possibly can add flags, key phrases, EXIF or IPTC metadata, and see an AI-based aesthetic evaluation of your pictures. Not solely are you able to add your individual metadata to any clip, the AI-based recognition can discover components in your pictures all by itself, or you possibly can break up the distinction and add some or all of its advised key phrases to your clips.
AI transcription and extra
Videos added to Peakto are robotically transcribed, and you may search via the phrases discovered. This remains to be in beta (and never all the time correct) nevertheless it’s typically adequate. If you recognize a specific phrase was spoken, this can be a nice option to discover the place in a clip it was discovered.
Because Peakto’s AI additionally examines the pictures to seek out what’s included in them, you’re additionally in a position to seek for a shot of espresso, or a automotive, or an individual, or a avenue. The evaluation is all native, and nothing is distributed to the cloud.
Avoiding the cloud is necessary for some, and with that in thoughts, Peakto Connect (coming within the subsequent launch) will turns your Mac into a neighborhood server. This opens up your Peakto library to searches from a number of distant customers, enabling facility-based editors and producers to poke round your media with out bothering an editor or interrupting their workflow. Because this answer doesn’t contain the broader web, it ought to be one thing which many can entry with out fear.
Premiere Pro plug-in and new codecs coming quickly
Integration with an NLE is likely one of the key elements that would swing you in the direction of one app or one other, and Peakto may even be introducing integration with Premiere Pro in v2.4. While I haven’t been in a position to take a look at this but, integration is all the time welcome, so if you happen to’re at NAB and studying this now, recover from to their sales space (SL10507) for a peek.
Even with out the plug-in, Peakto does operate properly as an unbiased app. I’ve been in a position to search via a number of media sources, then merely drag a clip into FCP so as to add it to a library, or drag it to Premiere Pro so as to add it to that mission.
Support for professional codecs may even quickly be added to the Pro license in Peakto, together with BRAW at first with ARRI and RED uncooked help to comply with. If you’ve acquired a big assortment of media in heavy codecs, that is what you’ll want.
Competing AI-recognition options
This house is getting crowded. Premiere Pro already included transcript-based enhancing, and simply added Media Intelligence to the general public launch, aiming, like Peakto, to will let you search via the contents of your clips. Third celebration choices from Jumper and Strada even have some overlap with Peakto.
However, every of those instruments has a unique focus and completely different strengths, and and not using a deeper evaluation as soon as all these instruments are absolutely out of beta, it’s going to be arduous to make a judgement as to which device is greatest in your specific workflow. Right now, Peakto’s power is that it extends to pictures in addition to movies, and (for higher or worse) it’s an unbiased app. Jumper works straight inside your NLE (FCP or Premiere Pro) and focuses fully on AI-based recognition, whereas Strada makes use of an online interface and is at the moment cloud-based with native drive entry coming quickly.
If you’re out there for AI-based asset administration, all or any of those apps may go well with you, so be sure you give them a attempt. Everyone works with completely different sorts of media, and never all AI-based recognition is equal, so that you’ll want to check by yourself media and with your individual search wants.
Pricing
Peakto is out there with a Standard License or a Pro Licence, and whereas the Standard license is out there as a subscription (from $10/month) or as a one-off perpetual buy, the Pro license is subscription-only (from $25/month).
For the Premiere Pro plug-in, the native server and the brand new codec help, you’ll want a Pro license. (Note: paying upfront provides cheaper costs.)
Conclusion
It’s nice to see AI-based organisation change into extra common, because the metadata it generates actually can pace up skilled workflows. Peakto’s distinctive strengths make it an interesting possibility for post-production professionals. Any facility or particular person which crosses between a number of NLEs, and even throughout stills and movies, ought to check out the standalone app now, then check out the server when it’s out there quickly.
What about solo operators? If you utilize Premiere Pro and want one thing greater than what Media Intelligence affords, take into account Peakto (or Jumper, or Strada) as a subsequent step. If you utilize FCP, Peakto (or Jumper, or Strada!) provides you with text-based transcription and content material search, with completely different approaches concerning integration and workflow. But anybody who wants to arrange movies and pictures ought to in all probability check out Peakto first. Check out the trial, and search for the brand new v2.4 replace quickly.
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