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The 5 Common Challenges With Digital Dailies Management [& Solutions]

Wish your digital dailies reviews were simple and fast? Understand and solve your biggest challenges with dailies in this article.

Dailies Distribution

How to Take the Headaches Out of Media Reviews

What can creative executives or production crew do to make their media reviews less painful for all parties? Learn how (spoiler: a DAM) in this article.

Why is M&E Moving to Cloud Media Asset Management?

Cloud technology isn’t new, but doing cloud media asset management is a fairly controversial topic in the M&E industry. Learn why in this article.

3 Ways to Enhance Collaboration with Digital Media in Production

Ensuring a production’s digital media collaborative process goes smoothly is no easy task. In this article, learn 3 tips to help your team work together.

What are the Best Tools for Improving a Production’s Media Workflow?

How can a studio limit the number of tools they use in their media workflow during production? Find out what steps you can take in this article.

How Major Studios Handle Media Production and Management

Curious how major film studios are evolving their media production and management? Learn how and what tools they use in this article!

Introducing Our New Virtual Production Report

Do you want to keep up with the latest trends in the M&E industry? Get a snapshot of those trends and more in our free report about virtual production.

What is Media Asset Management? Examples & a DAM’s Potential

What is media asset management? You might know it, but do you know the best tool to do it effectively? Learn what your production’s assets need.

3 Must-Do’s to Streamline a Media Asset Management Workflow

Is your production’s media asset management workflow inefficient and outdated? Learn three ways to streamline your production in this article!

Empowering Warner Bros. with Digital Asset Security

How has 5th Kind enabled Warner Bros market growth and asset control over the past twelve years? Find out in this digital asset management case study.

Product Announcements

What is Media Production? Future Trends & Tech

What is media production? While you’re familiar with it, COVID-19 spurred a revolution, and the future of production is on the horizon.

The Power of Remote Production: HPA Screening 2022

For the HPA screening event in 2022, 5th Kind supported half the films. Learn what the directors accomplished and what the future of filmmaking looks like.

Why Your Production Needs a Digital Asset Management System

How is a DAM different from a MAM? There’s a reason why major studios are leveraging a DAM with their media asset management system. Learn why in this article!

7 Essential Tools to Streamline Media Productions

Want to streamline your studio’s media productions? Ensure you are leveraging these seven tools, or ones like them, to upgrade your workflow to the next level and create media more efficiently.

How to Better Manage Media Assets in Production

Want to improve how you manage media assets during production? Check out one of our latest articles to start saving time and reducing headaches.

7 Virtual Production Examples in Modern Filmmaking

What are the latest and interesting virtual production examples that studios and vendors should take note of? Find out in this article!

The Dos & Don’ts of Remote VFX Production

COVID-19 caused massive disruption to VFX production workflows. Learn the dos and don’ts in this article to bring more efficiency to your remote process.

How a DAM Streamlines Your Virtual Production Asset Management

Need to streamline your production asset management during filming? Read this article to learn how you can in pre, post, and during production!

3 Best Practices of Remote Production [Tools & Techniques]

Want to streamline your remote production and make your life easier? Check out these 3 best practices you might be missing in your production workflow.

How to Handle the Explosion of Your Virtual Production Pipeline

With more studios and vendors leveraging technology to improve their productions, soon your virtual production pipeline will explode. Are you ready?

Virtual Production Technology: How Can a DAM Save You Money?

Can virtual production technology help your team make more money and save time during production? In short, yes – but discover how in this article!

What’s Going on at Virtual Production Studios? [6 Questions]

What is the latest technology at virtual production studios? How many studios are there in the world? Find out more in this article.

Virtual Production at Disney & Warner Bros: From Avatar to Batman

Virtual production has changed over the last few decades. How have major film studios, like Marvel, evolved their production process? Find out here.

4 Virtual Production Techniques Animation Studios Use

Curious what virtual production techniques animation studios are hiding up their sleeve? Check out this latest article that features four modern methods.

What is Virtual Production? Definition & Examples

What is virtual production? Discover its definition in this article, along with a brief history of modern virtual production and real-life examples.

Announcement | LIVE is Here!

We're excited to announce our latest live production product offering.

Product Announcements

5th Kind @ NAB 2022 | CORE v7 is Here!

We will be announcing CORE Version 7, our most innovative product release to-date! Including features designed to optimize your creative workflows & integrations to deliver seamless experiences in every stage of your productions.

News & Updates

NAB Show Awards 5th Kind’s CORE 2020 Product of the Year

We’re excited to share that 5th Kind has won the NAB Show Product of the Year for Asset Management, Automation, and Playout! Many thanks to the National Association of Broadcasters who honored us with this award and who will be presenting it (remotely, of course) at NAB Show New York on October 20, 2020.

News & Updates

The Power of AWS & CORE

Today, an entertainment studio is likely using disparate systems for script management and review of dailies/rushes while other systems are used for digital and retail product workflows. More often than not, these systems don’t play well together, which presents a fundamental challenge to overall studio management.

Product Announcements

Why Give a DAM?

Between the point solutions and the large, unwieldy enterprise DAM systems, you’ll find 5th Kind’s CORE. We offer the balance of usability that any business needs with the broad feature set of the pricey enterprise DAMs, all while performing with the highest levels of security.