Digital Photo Outtake Management

Scrounger - Digital Photo Outtake Management

Scrounger Digital photo out-take management
By managing digital camera workflow and outtakes with Scrounger, publishers can preserve, manage and archive every frame shot on assignment ensuring that the original image content is quickly available for editors and production.

After each assignment, image files are "swept" from digital camera cards, CDs or photographer computers and redundantly stored to eliminate any single point of failure. Photographers can file RAW camera files or JPEGs. Photos are captioned, edited and sent to production from any web browser. Scrounger contact sheets are automatically linked to the Trax assignment and to the edited pictures in a Merlin Digital Asset Management System.

An integrated solution that saves time and speeds production
The Merlin Digital Asset Management System, Trax and Scrounger can be used independently, and with great benefit. But together they combine to create a unique and completely integrated workflow. Information is entered once and shared among the products, linking content and related information. For example:

• You search and find a story in the digital asset management system
• Click and see the page and all the photos and graphics for that assignment
• Click again to see the original assignment contacts and rights information
• Looking for a new angle? Click and see every photo from the shoot
• As you find related items, drag & drop them into a project folder
• When done, drag & drop the project folder to the editor's "in" folder
• Then drag & drop the selected content to production for a follow-up