Media and Entertainment

Profuz LAPIS is a unique and powerful digital asset management system designed by Profuz Digital to adapt to the specific needs of media organisations.

Profuz LAPIS is capable of proficiently and seamlessly supporting every single aspect of a media’s business, making it a highly attractive financially viable and affordable system at every level.

LAPIS organizes and centralizes all processes and data under one roof with efficiency and integrates with all other systems with which the broadcast organization operates.

Profuz LAPIS acts as a major hub through which to control various internal departments, branches and business functions that can range from Management, Structure, Usage, Storage, to the Security of data processes, as well as maintaining data connections along with associated processes that are derived from and remain in the media organization’s various other systems.
LAPIS can also handle large data file transfers. Media organizations of any type can benefit from LAPIS’ content and document management capabilities, news, media and localization processes and workflows orchestration and automations.

Benefits

Production and Postproduction Studios

Organize your content with LAPIS – ingest, store, archive, review, approve, edit, and share your content. Post production is one of the most complex areas of the business. Keep your business up to date with industry trends. LAPIS was built to be easily and seamlessly connected to external tools to answer any custom need.

News Agencies

News agencies and portals can improve their time to market by centralizing the management of their news production and publication processes. With LAPIS they can improve their efficiency and eliminate repetitive time-consuming tasks and operations.

Broadcasting Service Providers

Broadcasters can greatly benefit from the ability of LAPIS to easily connect to different systems and plan, monitor and update their programs and contents from one single interface.

Functionalities

Digital Assets Management

Automatic and/or manual ingest of video, audio, pictures, documents, and subtitles in various formats via upload, transfer (FTP/S, HTTP/S, SFTP, WebDav, SMB/CIFS, NFS, S3, DropBox etc.), or hot/watch folders direct access
Multiple storages can be connected and used at the same time for direct access or archiving (store and retrieve)
Download content, transformations/transcoding and partial extracts based on user rights
Intelligent search mechanism – structured search, free form search, alternative faceted search. Searches in all fields and contents, internal and connected in parallel
Unique live search results updates with possibility to create multiple active individual or shared search sessions
Search queries and filtering with free text search
Assets of different types. Digital assets with or without available digital content
Metadata extraction/import – embedded or external (supplementary files, other databases, etc.). Multiple standards and formats such as EXIF, XMP, IPTC, XML, ID3, BWF, Dublin Core, etc. are supported
Support of new media distribution formats like IMF
Support of film scanning formats like DPX
User forms for custom workflow design
Taxonomic and faceted categorizations with multiple levels, sharing, and multi-inheritance
Unlimited properties and types of property data
Additional applied categorization structures: tags, keywords, structured and thesaurus keywords, categories, folders and folder-like structures, etc. with possibility to classify single asset in multiple nodes of the same type (for example in more then one folder without copying the content)

Multiplatform Content Delivery Management

Manage the entire process from content creation to publishing on social media platforms or media and playlist automations, and enjoy reduced time to market
Streamline multi-channel publishing and benefit from features like scheduling, assembling, approval, versioning and more
Transfer between different storages and locations using varieties of protocols – FTP/S, HTTP/S, SFTP, WebDav, SMB/CIFS, NFS, S3, etc.
Storyboards with videos, audios, images, texts, news, and other types of data
Storyboard export to various publishing and editing tools for video, audio, image, and others – Adobe Premiere, Final Cut, AirBox NEO, LightWorks, Photoshop, DaVinci Reslove etc.
Encrypting and watermarking of all types of content (video, audio, images, documents) using internal engines or integrating third party ones. More then one engine can be connected and used based on configured criteria.
Creation of multiple transcoding profiles and automatic transcoding processes

Interconnected data and processes

Inter-object links – categorization and structuring between objects of different types – for example projects containing tasks and assets; tasks containing different types of assets; folder with master video content, video markers and chunks; etc.
User definable simple properties driven or complex BPMN workflow orchestration of processes and contents involving clients, subcontractors, partners, viewers, etc.
Automatic Workflows and User Driven Processes
Complete supply chain management
Integration with ML and AI technologies for speech to text and automatic translation
Business Intelligence
Text Dictation and Voice Commands
Multiple Dashboards, Layouts and Themes to choose from

News Production Management

News workflows automation from planning to publishing
News articles creation, editing, approval and scheduling for one or multiple publications
News stories for managing news data (video, audio, text, photos, images, documents, articles and
other news feeds)
News Desks for organizing news per types of news or destination
Planning of related reporting, editing, validation and publishing tasks
Resource management– equipment, studios, vehicles, internal and external human resources
Management of newspapers and magazines
Radio and TV Stations news shows
Social Media and websites publishing
Access information from various news agencies and directly use them in your own news preparation