From Chaos to Clarity: Simplifying Media Workflows with Content Accessibility

• •Does the right person have the files they need?
  
• •Can editors pull up footage from old projects without chasing someone down?
  
• •What’s the fastest way to get a project out the door without duplicating work or losing files?
  

Instead of making post teams jump between tools and folders, the seamless integration between Strawberry, Pixstor, and Ngenea lets you run your workflow from a centralized system. But what sets this solution apart isn’t just how it brings files together—it’s the way it removes busywork and risk with automation and intelligent data handling.

One of Strawberry’s standout features, as John’s keynote highlighted, is its ability to automatically spin up new projects from templates. Let’s say you’ve got a standard folder structure, naming convention, and access rules for each show or client. Instead of recreating it all by hand—and risking a folder in the wrong place or a missed permission—Strawberry does it for you, every time.

Post-production isn’t what it used to be. Instead of everyone in the same building, you might have editors, producers, and assistants working from home, from the office, or occasionally from other time zones. Media isn’t just on the server down the hall—it lives on different storage, in the cloud, and in long-term archives. It’s easy to lose track, and even harder to keep everything moving smoothly.

As John noted, “With Strawberry, you’re not wasting time building out folders and permissions for every new job. The templates take over, so projects are always set up right, from the start.”

• •Project templates: Choose or customize templates for each type of job (commercial, doc, promo, etc.). Projects always start off organized the right way.
  
• •Automatic permissions: Strawberry assigns permissions based on roles as soon as a project’s created—no more “who should have access to this?” emails.
  
• •Fewer mistakes: Standardizing this process means less room for human error, so you don’t end up with the wrong assistant in the wrong project, or a missing folder right when you need it.
  

Technical teams know all too well how space gets eaten up when versions pile up or assets are copied from folder to folder. John dove into how this headache is solved by combining Strawberry and Pixstor.

“With our hard link approach, you don’t get multiple physical copies of the same asset,” John explained. “Editors and producers might see the same file appear in several places, but the storage only records it once. That means no wasting drive space with duplicate media.”

• •Hard links: Users can organize and access files where they need them, but in the background, Strawberry and Pixstor keep only one true version. So, if the same clip is used in multiple edits, you’re only storing it once.
  
• •Deduplication: When a file is uploaded, the system checks if it already exists in storage at the block level. Duplicates aren’t stored again—they simply reference the original. This keeps storage lean, cuts down confusion, and protects against accidental deletions.
  

John also addressed the pain of tracking media across active storage, nearline backups, and deep archives—a process that too often involves spreadsheets or frantic Slack messages.

“Ngenea does the heavy lifting for you. Need last year’s promo files? They’re moved back into your fast storage automatically, right when you need them. Done with a project? Ngenea archives it safely, without making someone babysit the process,” John emphasized.

• •Automated file movement: Editors and producers don’t need to think about where the media is—the system brings it to the right place as needed.
  
• •No more manual archiving: No risk of someone forgetting to back something up, or leaving old media sitting on expensive online storage.

• •Projects set up right, fast, every time
  
• •The right people on the right tasks, without waiting on IT or admin
  
• •Storage that stays lean—no duplicate files clogging things up
• •Archived material available when you need it—automatically