5 Steps to Automate Your Media Workflow

Automation is the key to an efficient media production workflow. Yet we see that many teams still manually move, transcode and organize files. Here are five concrete steps to change that.

1. Automate your ingest

Manually copying files from camera cards to your storage is time-consuming and error-prone. With an automated ingest system, files are automatically copied, verified and routed to the right location.

2. Set up transcoding rules

Instead of manually transcoding, set up rules that automatically apply the right codecs and resolutions based on the source material and destination.

3. Use templates for projects

Create reusable project templates with preset folder structures, naming conventions and workflow steps. This way every new project starts consistently and quickly.

4. Automate review and approval

Replace email and WeTransfer with a streamlined review system. Reviewers automatically get a notification, can give inline feedback, and approvals are processed directly.

5. Implement automatic delivery

After approval, deliverables are automatically exported in the right formats and sent to the right platforms. No more manual uploads to YouTube, social media or archive storage.

Start today

You don't have to automate everything at once. Start with the step that saves your team the most time, and build from there. With Medialinq you can implement each step individually.