Disconnected storage tiers, inconsistent naming conventions, multiple storage locations, outdated folder structures – these are just a few of the daily roadblocks faced by creative and media teams who need fast and reliable access to content.
Nothing kills your creative vibe like the endless content search. We’ve all been there: knowing there’s a key piece of content (image, document, video clip) saved somewhere, but no matter how many folders you dig through, people you ask, or keywords you type, you just can’t remember where you put it.
Now multiply that frustration across an entire team. Editors hunting for source footage; marketers searching for the latest approved versions; archivists trying to manage petabytes of legacy content across a multitude of chaotic systems. Time spent looking… is time spent looking. And aside from your assets, time is your most valuable resource.
Finding the right asset shouldn’t be complicated.
For most organizations, media content is scattered across multiple environments and devices – on-prem storage, nearline and archive platforms, cloud buckets, personal drives, and generic file storage platforms. The reality of modern media production is that content lives everywhere, and rarely in one tidy place.
Most of these systems weren’t built with media in mind. They might handle PDFs and spreadsheets just fine but fall short when it comes to large video files, time-based metadata, or complex versioning. What’s more, these systems often lack the visibility and controls needed to manage creative workflows at scale. Assets get moved, renamed, duplicated, or deleted entirely, with no audit trail to recover from. Maybe someone pulled down the wrong version for a campaign, or a file was deleted to free up space without realizing it was still in use. Or maybe no one even knows a critical piece of content exists because it’s sitting in a forgotten folder no one thought to check.
It’s not just frustrating. It’s risky. And it drains valuable time and energy from the people who should be creating, not chasing files.
One unified interface. A single source of truth
Forward-thinking media teams are moving away from general-purpose storage toward centralized, media-focused solutions that are purpose-built to handle high volumes of creative output. So that, ultimately, it doesn’t matter where your content lives, it just matters that it is discoverable and retrievable.
With Vision, Pixitmedia by DataCore’s content management interface, media becomes instantly discoverable regardless of where its kept. Powered by rich metadata and intelligent search functionality, Vision acts as a single source of truth across your storage environments.
Users can intuitively search their whole storage ecosystem to instantly locate desired assets, with AI-generated metadata adding another layer of context that makes it easy to find assets based on objects, faces, or scenes within a video. With Vision, you can browse vaults (buckets) in list or grid view, watch video playback directly in your browser, and create subclips without downloading high-res files. All while maintaining full visibility into where your assets are and how they’re being used.
Vision is built for everyone. For creatives, it means no more folder-diving or waiting on media managers. With self-serve, intuitive access, they can quickly locate and use the content they need right from the browser. Marketing teams gain independence too, with the ability to find and repurpose assets without relying on technical specialists. Likewise, archivists and media managers benefit from total visibility and control, with tools to maintain version history, manage access, and preserve content at scale with full audit trails.
When media teams no longer need to fight the system just to find a file, creativity flows. Campaigns move faster. Archives become more valuable. And collaboration becomes second nature.
Let Pixitmedia handle the search
Vision’s powerful search and view functionality brings all your media together into one intuitive platform, giving you fast, seamless access to content across every storage tier. Whether you’re looking for a VFX render, archived footage, or the latest approved edit, you can locate it instantly using rich, metadata-driven search tools.
Get started with Pixitmedia by DataCore today and discover how easy media management can be when search is no longer the problem – it’s the solution.
