Boosting efficiency and accelerating delivery are vital for thriving in today’s fiercely competitive media landscape. At Dalet, we continue to deliver improved workflows across the entire media supply chain with the latest long-term support (LTS) release of Dalet Flex. The latest updates introduce significant new features designed to deliver operational efficiency and help our clients expand their business opportunities.

• Work with your content faster: access, edit, and deliver content while it’s being ingested.
• Increased format support: seamlessly manage the latest production and post-production formats.
• Easier review & approval: eliminate bottlenecks and review on-the-go.
• Gain key business insights: keep tabs on system usage and related costs.

Let’s take a closer look at how the latest LTS release of Dalet Flex provides these benefits.

Live Scenarios

Efficiently managing, editing, and producing content while it is being ingested has become increasingly critical to meet current audience demands. Dalet Flex addresses this need even before content recording starts. When recordings are scheduled in Dalet Brio or Dalet InStream, placeholder assets are automatically created. These placeholders allow you to organize your media and pre-populate it with metadata in advance. Once recording begins, these placeholders become live-growing assets. Within Dalet Flex, you can preview, enrich with additional metadata, and even clip segments in real time. Live scenarios extend beyond Dalet’s ingest solutions, with added support for importing growing OP1a MXF and H.264 DASH files from Telestream Vantage and previewing them in FlexMAM.

If you need added editing functionality besides basic clipping, Dalet Cut now offers full editing workflows for growing assets. All collections created within Dalet Flex, including your ingesting assets, are accessible in Dalet Cut. This allows editors to seamlessly access both their editing tools and all of their content via a web browser from anywhere. Growing files can be directly added to the timeline and extended out as they grow. Dalet Cut timelines, complete with all ingested or still-growing content, are part of your media library and can be distributed using the same delivery workflows you already have. 

For more advanced editing, you can use FlexXtend within Adobe Premiere Pro: whether you’re starting your edit in Premiere or picking up a Dalet Cut edit, high-resolution growing assets are now available for editing through the Adobe integration panel.

More Formats

With a plethora of formats already in use, and new ones emerging regularly, the ability to manage and edit content in any format is crucial for business expansion. The latest Dalet Flex updates provide additional support for both production and post-production formats. A production-connected MAM must accommodate this variety, and Dalet Flex now extends its support to a wide array of camera formats, including updated R3D, ProRes Raw, and more.

For post-production workflows, the latest Dalet Flex LTS version introduces MXF Op-Atom support, allowing seamless import, transcode, metadata extraction, and export to facilitate full integration from Flex Core, FlexMAM, and FlexCUT into Avid Media Composer. Alongside video codecs, we have integrated additional formats such as .gfx so you can centralize and efficiently manage all your media through Flex.

Efficiency and Insights

While Dalet Flex significantly automates media workflows, certain critical aspects, such as review and approval, still require human involvement. The latest LTS version brings further improvements to the recently revamped Review & Approval application, offering users increased clarity in ongoing reviews through improved assignment notation and advanced search and filtering options. This enables reviewers to prioritize and identify what requires their attention next. Additionally, you can now access review sessions via FlexMobile, accelerating delivery by enabling users to work from anywhere.

And whether you need to identify open review sessions, or monitor potential bottlenecks across production workflows, understanding system usage and anticipating issues are crucial to gaining operational efficiency. Recent updates to Dalet Flex provide expanded data and dashboards for increased in-depth system monitoring, including user, workflow, and resource utilization insights. For AWS-hosted instances, additional data collection facilitates advanced cost monitoring, enabling cloud cost analysis at the project level. This allows for granular reporting on a per-production basis for storage, data transfer, and transcoding expenses.

There’s more…

At Dalet, we remain committed to delivering updates that help our clients enhance their operations and expand their business opportunities. With its cloud-native architecture built on microservices, the Dalet Flex platform is consistently updated to ensure compatibility, security, and the introduction of new features. Beyond the updates mentioned above, additional features and fixes have been implemented. For detailed release notes and documentation, please visit the Dalet Support Hub.