Ci Media Cloud has updated its product to include plans optimized for small businesses and added valuable features such as Ci Transfer, a new desktop file transfer app, and enhanced support for Dolby Atmos audio files.
“We are continually evolving the Ci platform to better meet users' needs and make it an even more essential part of their daily workflow,” he says. David Rosen, Vice President, Cloud Applications and Services, Sony Electronics. “We're making Ci even more accessible and usable with plans built to meet the requirements and budgets of small and medium-sized businesses, a rich new desktop app experience, and the addition of Dolby Atmos audio for immersive, authentic sound. We’re making it easy, and it’s powerful for creators and organizations across all facets of the industry.”
Business plan update
Ci has launched a new business plan that complements its custom Enterprise and Enterprise+ services as an addition to its Free, Pro, and Team online plans. Optimized for independent creators and organizations with multiple teams, this online subscription option is a step up from Ci's more introductory team subscription.For approximately $249 (USD) per month, businesses can create unlimited[1] Access your workspace, 1 TB (terabyte) of active storage, 4 TB of archive storage, and 500 GB (gigabytes) of data transfer each month.[2]. Featuring some of the more advanced features of Ci's Enterprise tier plans, such as custom branding and usage analytics, this new tier offers valuable benefits, affordability, and simplified onboarding.
Ci Transfer desktop app and sidecar ingestion workflow
Ci Transfer is a desktop app that enables fast transfer of files and folders to and from the Ci Media Cloud platform. This new app, available for Mac and PC devices, supports multi-giga speed transfers[3], retries transfers after interruptions, and is optimized to handle hundreds of files. Pause and resume transfers and transfer reports allow you to prioritize urgent files for quick transfers, which can be verified with transfer logs once completed. For large organizations migrating archive libraries, the Ci Transfer app, combined with the new sidecar ingest workflow, allows customers to move media libraries without losing sidecar metadata. If you upload both JSON files along with your media files, Ci will automatically link the metadata to your media files. Ci Transfer is free to download for all Ci users. Sidecar ingestion workflow is an entitlement feature for enterprise customers.
Dolby Atmos support
You can now upload video and audio files with Dolby Atmos and play them in Ci's player experience. Integration with Dolby.io enables support for ADM (Audio Definition Model) BWF (Broadcast Wave Format) Atmos audio, allowing users to choose to listen and download binaural or stereo audio proxies directly on Ci. Users can also visually check Loudness Units Full Scale (LUFS) and true peak levels with Ci's built-in media analysis tools. Creative and quality assurance (QA) teams can hear and work with immersive content as it was intended.
