Digital asset management is the cataloguing, storage, annotating and retrieval of ‘digital assets’, such as digital photographs, animations, video and sound files. Digital asset management systems are computer software and/or hardware systems designed to help in this task.

You don’t need to install it locally on your server. Media Lightbox is provided as an online service and hosted on our servers. The service can be used via a normal PC or Mac, with a standard internet browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome.

The product supports a wide range of file types, including all major image file types, Photoshop, PDF, Videos, Sound, Powerpoint, and Microsoft Word.
 

Yes. Media Lightbox allows you to create standard users, power users, and admin users, and manage which users see which folders, the number of functions they can use etc. 

Our hardware is fully redundant so that even if one disk fails no data will be lost and the system will not go down.  In addition, all data is backed up to a separate storage area three times daily and can be recovered in the event of total system failure. System uptime is greater than 99.5%. 

No. Free accounts have no time limit, but are limited by storage space, data transfer and user numbers. In cases where an account is to be closed, we will ensure that you have adequate warning beforehand, and data will be archived for three months after the account has been closed.

No. If you have come to the end of your free month trial period you will be automatically charged on a monthly basis unless you cancel your account. If you decide to cancel your account at any time you will receive notification that your data must be removed from our servers before the end of the free month trial period or the end of the current month which you have paid for. All data is archived so you can reactivate your account at any point up to 3 months after the account has been closed.
 

Depending on the package that you choose you will be able to store different volumes of your digital files on Media Lightbox.  It is difficult to conceive how much 'space' is taken up by an image, PDF, audio or video file.  Factors such as the quality of the image, video, audio file will affect the amount of space taken up by the file on Media Lightbox. Here is our rough guide:

1 Megabyte (1 MB) roughly equals:

    * 1 minute of music

    * 1 low resolution photo

    * 12000 words in a Word file (about 20-30 pages)

    * 10 seconds of low resolution video

1 Gigabyte (1 GB or 1024 MB) roughly equals:

    * 16.6 hours of music (roughly 16 CDs)

    * 350 high resolution photos (or 50 'RAW' photos)

    * 2-3 full length novels

    * 5 minutes of good quality video (13GB per hour)

Not getting your signup confirmation email?

1.     Open your email client and locate your Junk/Spam folder.

2.     Select the email from Medialightbox.

3.   Click the "Not Junk/Spam". 

Media Lightbox has all the features of an FTP site, but it is much more than that. The software supports file upload, download, storage, sending large files and has advanced features such multiple user levels, file approval system, batch uploader and more. In addition the Media Lightbox is unlike many FTP sites in that it is totally web-based, with no need to install software to your computer in order to use the product.