Introduction

As the main objective of any studio is to produce great assets for products so that they can then be marketed and sold on line (as well as offline), you need to know which products that need capturing. Then you need to have samples that represents these products as well as knowing how many assets you need for each product. You also need to know what type of assets you need, e.g. images, videos, 360 or 3D visuals.

In ProStudio we combine three different objects to make production successful

• Work Order
• Products (in the Work Order)
• Assets (in the Work Order)

Work Order main page

The overview page provides a complete overview of all the active Work Orders, the number of Products in the work order and production progress. Depending on the configuration of the Work Order you can also view additional information, such as dates, people responsible and studio to use.

To view progress, the Work Order can be moved by changing the Work Order status. Each status will represent a different stage in the production process, for example, the product are in preparation for photo shoot or in Capture mode or in Post-production mode.

Work Order details

In ProStudio, all the production work is centred around the Work Order. The Work Order will combine Products and Assets to provide workflow to you and your team.

Settings (Instructions)

Product in the Work Order

Assets in the Work Order

Upload assets

Tasks

Products

In each Work Order their will be a list of Products. These are the Products that have been planned for your photo-shoot, also known as the shoot-list and it represents the Products planned for your specific photo-shoot.

NOTE: The same product may exist in several Work Orders at the same time. The benefit is that the same Product can be planned for different shoots, sometimes in parallel.

Product data can be filtered and sorted in order to support a more streamlined work flow. Filters are dependent on how the Product attributes has been configured, please refer to System configuration, Product Attributes.

Actions can be performed on all the Products in the work order, this can be done in bulk or product by product

Product status allows you to see the progress of specific Products in your work order. One Product may have two different Product statuses if the Product exists in two different Work Orders. This helps you monitor the progress of Product visualisation.

Assets

The Assets view represents the all Assets that are related to the Products listed in this specific Work Order. By combining the Product information with Style Guide data we can create a place holder with a valid name before we upload the Asset

Knowing what Assets will be created from the photo shoot will validate the content you anticipate. If you have mapped Style Guide Views to the Products in a Work Order, these are visualised on the Products listing under the column called “Mapped views”

NOTE: you don’t need Products in the Work Order to upload Assets, You can drop any visual content in the Work Order and those Assets will remain under the Assets tab not related to a Product and View.

ProStudio manages multiple versions of an Asset and these versions are completely independent of the file type.

Upload Assets

Here you add Assets to the workflow. This process can be done in bulk or singular.

By using the upload recognition rule you can easily match Assets to Products and Views automatically.

You may also set status when uploading assets, indicating where in the process your Assets are.

NOTE: You can only add Assets to ProStudio via a Work Order. If you delete a work order with Assets, you will also delete all the assets.

Tasks

Tasks are used when you want to select a set of Assets and pass them on, for example send them to retouching via API such as Pixelz or Bright River.

The task will hold information about what images will be processed, what status the prodcess including date stamps.

Settings

The Settings view allows you to see all the information that is required to do a photo shoot, like:

• Which Studio (bay) will be used
• Who will perform the photo shoot
• What is the deadline
• Specific instructions for the team

Attributes in the Settings menu can be configured to suit your specific needs. You also have the option add new, or delete attributes that are not relevant to you and your team, To edit, add or delete attributes, please refer to System Configuration, Work Order Attributes