Introduction

Key Highlights

Here are some of the key highlights of eMAM Version 6.0:

New Features

We've added new features eMAM which allow greater flexibility and control in your media and asset management workflows. Several improvements have been added to our eMAM extension panels, providing you with more features and functionality within the Adobe ecosystem which will help you streamline your workflow and access your files more easily.

1. Introduced “eMAM Next”

Bring AI Power to Your On-Prem eMAM System using eMAM Next. eMAM Next is a new AI tool that will enrich untagged videos so that organizations can find the best media and moments. The tool leverages open source LLMs and works on affordable HP Z2 workstations to provide speech-to-text, summarization, and the title generation in the Transcript widget for organizations to use securely in their local infrastructure. Over time, new tools and features will be added. To learn more, refer eMAM Next.

2. Introduced new “Client” interface

eMAM Client is a user-friendly interface designed to help users browse and search assets and categories efficiently.  This will minimize training and support for non-technical users. Because eMAM Client users will NOT count to licensed user counts in eMAM 6.0, it will help organizations share their content easier and more affordably.  eMAM Client also supports SSO authentication.

The new eMAM Client is a lightweight and secure platform, built in alignment with modern security standards. A key highlight of the eMAM Client is its strong commitment to accessibility and WCAG 2.1 compliance (Level A and AA). The application has been thoughtfully developed to support users with diverse abilities. Features such as keyboard navigation using the Tab key enable seamless access to interface controls without requiring a mouse, offering critical support for visually impaired users.

It is also compatible with popular screen readers like NVDA, ensuring that on-screen content is accessible through auditory feedback. Additionally, usability is enhanced with contrast-friendly themes like Aquatic and Desert, which provide better visual clarity for users with low vision or color perception differences. 

The new eMAM Client provides a simplified way for authorized non-technical users or external stakeholders to access the eMAM library. While the current version offers limited functionality, it provides a solid foundation for accessible and secure media asset management across teams.

Below are the core features available in the current release:

• Asset Browse: Easily browse through all ingested media assets including Video, Audio, Image, and Other file types.
• Category Navigation: Browse assets organized under Categories and Subcategories for efficient content grouping and retrieval.
• Search: Quickly find assets or categories using keywords or customer metadata in eMAM. Auto-suggestion support helps refine search results as you type.
• Asset Preview & Metadata: View metadata and preview media content.
•      WCAG-Compliant Accessibility:

• Navigate the interface using only a keyboard (Tab/Shift+Tab) without the need for a mouse.
• Screen reader support using tools like NVDA ensures inclusive access for visually impaired users.
• Theme contrast support (e.g., Aquatic and Desert) improves visibility and readability for users with low vision.

Figure 1- eMAM Client Home page

Click on Categories, displays all the categories and subcategories created in eMAM.

Figure 2- Category tab displays all categories

It displays all the subcategories and asset inside each category in the eMAM system.

Figure 3- Category and its subcategories

Clicking on the asset thumbnail opens up a new window on the right. The Asset window displays the asset preview (preview player for videos, image preview, audio player), basic metadata (duration, size, author, last updated and date created) and custom metadata. You have the option to edit and update the custom metadata.

Figure 4- Click on the asset thumbnail opens a new window on the right

3. Introduced “People”  Widget

A new “People” widget has been introduced which will display faces of all the people from AI indexed assets. This option can be used to train the Microsoft Azure Video Indexer face model. When a person's name is manually renamed from the widget, Video Indexer internally trains on that face and associates the visual features with the given name. This will be stored in the Video Indexer’s  account face model database. Subsequently, uploaded videos are checked for matching faces, and matches are automatically labeled using the stored training data.

Figure 5- “People” widget display faces

1. Clicking on any of the faces will retrieve and display all the assets in the Browse widget where this face was detected.

Figure 6- Clicking on any of the faces will retrieve and display all the assets in the Browse widget where this face was detected

2. Click on edit icon will open up a new window with details of that person. You can manually edit the unknown faces detected and enter that person’s name.

Figure 7- Edit person details

Figure 8- Person name successfully changed

3. You also have the option to delete similar faces detected.

Figure 9- Delete face

4. Option to sort and search inside the People widget.

Figure 10- Option to sort and search inside the People widget

5. Added option to delete the person in the People widget.

Figure 11- option to delete the person

6. Added option to merge the persons. Users can merge multiple persons into one, using Merge Persons option. 

Figure 12- Select persons and click on Merge Persons option to merge two people

In the Confirm Merge window, confirm the name and click on Merge. A success message is displayed after completion.

Figure 13- Confirm Merge window to confirm merging of persons. Give the merged person name.

4. Enhanced Transcript widget

1. Translate 

We have introduced the AWS Translate option in the Transcript widget so users can translate the transcripts in the Transcript widget and also translate all the edits made in one language to other languages.

Figure 14- Translate button in Transcript widget

Figure 15- Choose the language and translate profile to translate

2. Transcript search results in a separate tab 

Go to Advanced Search window, under Advanced Search, key in the search keywords and enable Marker/AI and click on Search. Searched transcripts along with timecode results will get displayed and highlighted under Searched Transcript tab in the Transcript widget.

Figure 16- Transcript search results displayed in a separate tab along with the timecode

5. Introduced “Index files” option in eFeeder

The “Index Files” option is a new feature introduced in eFeeder that can work for all types of files. It can also detect Red R3D camera raw files and process separately. With this new option, eMAM can index the files from the existing storage location or copy to a storage location without renaming it to UUID filename. Index file option uses the existing sidecar XML ingest option.

Figure 17- Index Files option in eFeeder

Figure 18- eFeeder camera card detection options

• Browse folder: Browse the source folder
• Choose any of the two:

• Index from source: eMAM system only indexes the metadata and reference of the file in its original location (source path).
• Copy and index: eMAM system copies the file to its designated storage location (e.g., SAN/NAS/cloud), then indexes it.

• Click on Select Ingest profile and add metadata

Figure 19- eFeeder choose ingest profile as XML ingest

Figure 20- XML sidecar file created

6. Support for spanned R3D clips

eMAM now supports spanned R3D clips as a single asset with preview instead of ingesting the clips as separate assets. Related clips are available under Essence widget. This ingest option is incorporated into the new “Index Files” option inside eFeeder. It can create a single R3D spanned clip for the selected RDC folder. 

When a user drags and drops a folder, and it detects an RDC folder with R3D files in it, it will create the sidecar XML behind the scenes, and it will use the sidecar XML profile to copy the created XML to the sidecar XML folder. 

Figure 21- eFeeder Index files option

7. New Integrations

1. EVS Integration: eMAM is now integrated with EVS.  eMAM can ingest and process the media and XML coming from the EVS platform. EVS metadata is available inside eMAM for search.

Figure 22- import EVS Game and timecode-based Metadata

2. ServiceNow: eMAM is now integrated with ServiceNow. You can search for ServiceNow events, preview the details, and create category structure and placeholders in eMAM with the selected metadata from ServiceNow and export them to eMAM.

8. eMAM Director Changes

1. Introduced List View option for eBIN.

• Assets can be dragged and dropped from the Browse widget,
• Ability to reorder assets by dragging up and down the row.
• Click on the delete icon to delete an asset from the queue.

Figure 23- eBIN List view

2. Introduced option in Marker search to search for Marker Metadata.

Figure 24- Marker metadata search

3. Added a confirmation popup before removing assets from a Category.

Figure 25- confirmation popup before removing assets from a Category

4. Introduced a confirmation window to confirm archive and restore from Project, Category and Browse widgets.

Figure 26- Confirmation window to confirm archive and restore from Project, Category and Browse widgets

5. Introduced “Topics” “ Entity” & “Summary” as parameters under Manage Filter for searching assets tagged using Deepgram.

Figure 27- “Topics” “ Entity” & “Summary” as parameters under Manage Filter

6. Introduced option to show/hide OCR text in the Transcript widget.

Figure 28- show/hide OCR text

7. Introduced “Select all” option for Subclips and Markers which is checked by default.

Figure 29- “Select all” option for Subclips and Markers

8. Filter the assets in the Browse widget on clicking the categories from the Category widget.

Figure 30- Click on categories from Category widget to view subcategories and assets under that category

9. Display ingest profiles and archive profiles with filter option in the Ingest and Archive Dashboard.

Figure 31- Ingest profile displayed in the Ingest dashboard

Figure 32- Figure 32- Archive profile displayed in the Archive dashboard

10. Reset the player audio channel to "Stereo" by default when switching between video assets.

Figure 33- player audio channel set to "Stereo" by default

11. Introduced an option to set a maximum limit on the number of rows that can be exported as csv file.

To overcome timeout issues when exporting asset details from Browse widget, you can set the limit with the new parameter in eMAM Gateway config  "ExportAssetsMaxCount"

C:\Program Files\Empress Media\eMAM Gateway\web.config

Figure 34- eMAM Gateway config

Note: Default value: <add key="ExportAssetsMaxCount" value="10000" />

9. eFeeder Changes

1. Added option to set the Chunk Size in eFeeder UI for the filestream uploads. Now users have option to set the chuck size for S3 uploads.  These parameters can be adjusted based on the internet bandwidth available to the user’s workstation to improve the upload speeds.          

Figure 35- set the Chunk Size

2. Introduced options to manage category- Add new Category and Properties (edit category name, permissions and Security tab).

Figure 36- eFeeder options to manage category

Figure 37- Window to Add new category

Figure 38- Properties window to edit details under Permissions and Security tabs

3. For Copy and Index option, assets are directly uploaded once the files are added to the queue.

Figure 39- Assets are directly uploaded once the files are added to the queue

10. Avid Media Composer Panel Changes

eMAM is now integrated with Avid Media Composer. You can link assets and categories & export them as sequences using eMAM panel.

1. Download Avid Media Composer from eMAM Director, My Account page> Apps>Extension Panel for Media Composer

Figure 40- Download Avid Media Composer from eMAM Director

2. Launch the Avid Media Composer application and click on Tools>eMAM to open eMAM panel.

Figure 41- Click on Tools>eMAM to open eMAM panel

3. Provided the text box options "panel domain" and "allowed domains" in the manage Apps section.

Figure 42- text box options for "panel domain" and "allowed domains"

4. Introduced “Import” option to import assets from eMAM to Avid MC panel.

Figure 43- “Import” option to import assets from eMAM to Avid MC panel

Figure 44- Import options window

5. Recreate markers and subclips when media is linked from eMAM to Avid Media Composer.

Figure 45- Markers and subclips recreated in eMAM

6. Display server name on the login page.

Figure 46- eMAM panel login page

11. Adobe Premiere Panel Changes

1. Option to import the sequence from other projects to the current working project.

Figure 47- Import selected Premiere Pro sequence

Figure 48- Sequence get imported

2. Included After Effects files for export.

Figure 49- Panel settings- Include After Effects files during export

3. Introduced option to set Import option as default in the Settings page for project, bin, category and asset import.

Figure 50- Panel settings- Import options

Link: Links files directly to eMAM storage for online editing. Require editing machines and storage to be on the same internal network. Ideal for workflows within a physical office environment.

Localize: Downloads files from eMAM storage to local storage. Ideally when the editing workstation lacks direct access to eMAM storage (e.g., object storage like S3) or for offline editing workflows.

Stream: Loads media directly to Premiere from AWS S3 and HTTPS sources, avoiding initial download delays. Requires Media Reactor plugin configuration. Ideal for remote and cloud-based editing workflows.

4. Introduced Link proxies option: eMAM panel now supports option to link proxies with eMAM assets. On click on Link Media, eMAM will detect the files that already exist in eMAM storage. 

Figure 51- Link Media- eMAM will detect the files already exists in eMAM storage

eMAM Panel will identify if the same asset exists in eMAM using the following 2 methods,

1. The asset's file path and size matches with the asset that already exists in eMAM. This is helpful in scenarios where contents are directly indexed from source storage like camera cards and the same assets are used in multiple Premiere projects. By comparing file path and file size, panel can avoid duplicate files getting ingested to eMAM.
2. File with same name and size exists in eMAM

On click on Link button, now in addition to relinking, it will now fetch the proxy details also and attach the proxy. 

Figure 52-Backend processes after clicking on Link button

Once the proxy is available and linked, click Close. Now again if you click on Link Media button, since panel already detected the assets as eMAM assets, so now only proxy will be attached. You can toggle between original and proxy media in Adobe Premiere Source monitor

Figure 53- Toggle between original and proxy media

5. When you import a category into Premiere Pro:

• If no specific bin is selected in Premiere, a new bin will be created in your Premiere project with the same name as the imported category, containing all its child elements and sub-bins.
• However, if you have an existing bin selected in your Premiere project before importing, the entire category structure (including the new bin with its child elements) will be created inside that already selected bin.

Figure 54- Category structure will be created inside that already selected bin.

6. Enhanced messages:

1. Project forge check-in 

Figure 55- Revised Force Check-In notes

2. Force check in Version notes.

Figure 56- Revised message in Version notes

3. Export- Duplicate assets detected

Figure 57- export message on detecting duplicate assets

12. Adobe After Effects Panel Changes

1. Introduced a new button 'Rename UUID' in the current Project tab. 

Click on this button will rename all eMAM UUID names to corresponding eMAM title in the assets.

Figure 58- Rename UUID to rename all eMAM UUID names to corresponding eMAM title in the assets

2. Introduced option to set Import option in the Settings page for project, bin, category and asset import.

Figure 59- Import option in the Settings page for project, bin, category and asset import

3. Introduced option to Relink.

Figure 60- Click on Relink button

In below cases, users can relink option to relink to an asset existing in eMAM.

1. File with same name and size exists in eMam system wide
2. File with same name exists in selected category
3. File with same name and source path exists in eMAM

Figure 61- Files available in eMAM for Relink

On link media, eMAM checks for:

1. Same name and size (systemwide)
2. Same name and source file path

Figure 62- Link Media Status

13. Super Admin Changes 

1. Introduced new parameters for Video Indexer ARM authentication changes.

• Tenant ID 
• Client ID 
• Client Secret 
• Subscription ID 
• Account ID 

Figure 63- new parameters for Video Indexer ARM authentication

2. Included basic metadata fields in workflow metadata mapping.

Figure 64- basic metadata fields in workflow metadata mapping

3. Included Element Type as a variable in the workflow conditions. 

Figure 65- Element Type as a variable in the workflow conditions

• Normal: All assets other than sequences and project assets.
• Sequence: Sequences
• Project: Project assets
• 
  

4. Included ProjectName and ProjectID as a variable in Delivery FileName parameter drop down.

Figure 66- ProjectName and ProjectID as a variable in Delivery FileName parameter

5. Introduced Amazon Translate as the new AI profile option in Super Admin.

Figure 67- Amazon Translate as the new AI profile

14. Other General Changes

1. Extended asset & category “Link” option for S3 and other storage types.
2. Supports Stitch and deliver using EGL (Telestream EDL) file.
3. Changes in workflow to insert the SQS entry for cloud delivery.
4. Changes to recreate proxy using Elemental MediaConvert ingest profiles.
5. Changes in Preview player to load the original file if the proxy does not exist.
6. Improved the loading performance of the project widget.
7. Changes in Super Admin to improve embedded metadata loading in Delivery profile & workflow modules.
8. Included “Attachment”  option in the sidecar XML and ingest manager. Sample format for attachment in XML.

<associate file-type="attachment" file-action="copy" file-name="hd_wallpapers_forbackground_2015.jpg" file-path="G:\Test Assets\Images" />

9. Changes in lambda transcoder to replace Wand library with Pillow library for image processing.
10. Rebuilt lambda transcoder in lambda python 3.11 runtime. 
11. Changes in eMAM Director to resolve Cross-site Scripting (XSS).
12. Changes in Delivery service to support / and \ with _ for S3 duplicate delivery | Transcoding delivery. 
13. Adobe Premiere & After Effects panel compatible with Adobe 2024 and 2025 updates. 
14. Super Admin changes to remove unwanted configurations.
15. Implemented high level S3 SDK in efeeder.
16. Download manager changes to support the S3 transfer acceleration.
17. Included variable for eFileProxyPath, eFileUUID in Delivery profile command line arguments.
18. Default "Auto play" to set unchecked for eShare and eSend links settings.
19. Changes in Archive Manager to add Original Filename as the comment with the DIVA Archive job.
20. Dashboard items to be sorted by start time (descending) by default.
21. Support for import of assets indexed from source.
22. Changes in Archive Manager to "Archive / Restore" file attachments.
23. Changes in REST API to Support Pre-Signed URL for api/V2/assets/{AssetId} end point
24. Changes in REST API to introduce INGEST end point for Sidecar XML Creation (create-new-asset)
25. Changes in Ingest manager to support the Pre-Signed URL path in sidecarXML for create-new-asset
26. Implemented direct copy (NTFS / CIFS / SMB) to highres folder instead of uploader for instant asset ingest profile.

Conclusion

eMAM 6.0 is a comprehensive upgrade designed to enhance media asset management capabilities, accessibility, integration workflows, and overall system performance. We thank all users and partners for their continued feedback and collaboration, which have helped shape this release.

For more information and assistance, please contact eMAM Technical Support at support@emamsolutions.com

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