Media Asset Management and Kyno

What is Media Asset Management? At its core, Media Asset Managers (MAM) allow you to log, filter, and move around your digital media. It becomes especially helpful when working on a Jellyfish server with a team across multiple projects at once.

At LumaForge, we discovered we needed a MAM when we started scaling our video editing team. It became unmanageable for only one person on the team to know where all of our footage was kept. So we started a journey to find a MAM that worked for us.

We found that most options are difficult to setup, often require a separate computer to run their database, and are not easy to use.

Then we found Kyno by Lesspain Software. Unlike the others, Kyno creates an index on your storage that can be seen by any computer connected to your Jellyfish server. All you have to do to set up a user is to download Kyno.

Once we downloaded Kyno for each user, we were immediately able to start logging footage on multiple machines at once. As we started adding tags, Kyno created a list in the background. When we started typing a new tag, Kyno would suggest tags that the other users had already used. This kept us from doubling or tripling tags for a single subject.

Kyno integrates with Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro CC, and DaVinci Resolve 15. The metadata entered in Kyno can be passed to all three NLEs. Tags come into FCPX as Keyword Collections. Subclips come into FCPX as Keyword Ranges, and as Markers with duration in Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

If you have a Jellyfish and are sharing a media archive with your team, Kyno is a great tool for organizing your media so you can find it quickly and efficiently.

For super easy collaborative video storage, check out the LumaForge Jellyfish.

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[TrevorMatthews]

Thanks a bunch! I’m just getting started in video, and have been looking for something to manage my B roll without even knowing what I’m looking for. This fits the bill to a T

[LesspainSoftware]

Thank you so much for this wonderful video, Patrick!
So glad you and your team like Kyno. Hope to see you soon, maybe at NAB?

[WrvrUgoThrUR]

Kyno is looking mighty attractive to me these days. I’m using CatDV and a Pegasus Petasan on a --pardon my French— PC, and working with a team of Mac editors who just have replicated shared footage on individual external hard drives. They all plan to media mange their own projects and tagged the resulting footage in Adobe Bridge. The saving grace is that they are very short videos, so the replication of footage and keywords should be minimal.

[craigshields]

Good info in this video. Why did you guys decide to go with Kyno rather than a solution like CatDV? My client is getting a quote on CatDV now.

[RobertBusschots]

It would be so much easier to screen and annotate footage if Kyno would use the industry-standard JKL-keys play/scrub/jog/reverse method.

[nataliec.palmer]

Bit of a random question, with regards to Kyno, do you know if there is a form of cloud based storage that you can have as an add on? My company is looking to use a MAM, but having a copy of all the footage on a cloud based system to aid with working from home.

[mcanelson]

Hi! It looks like most of this can be done inside of FCPX. What do you think are the key differences to use Kyno before moving to FCPX? Can it be used by multiple user at the same time? Easier to use for non-editors? Thanks!

[randyburleson]

I don’t have a “Jellyfish”... will this work on a PC with Windows 10 and QNAP storage with Resolve 16?

[MisaSantaCecilia]

I am having issues with Kyno. It keeps crashing on my MacBook Pro (Monterey 12.5). Kyno support has done nothing to respond to my tickets. I have been a Kyno user for several years. I am definitely in "Pain." Any suggestions?

[edwardwhite]

I looking for a software which can index a external hard drives. I can click on the software & even with the external hard drive no longer connected to the computer. This software will tell me which external hard drive the files are on. Show me the files that are on these various external hard drives even with the external hard drive no longer connected to the computer.

[SteveMartinUSA]

Kyno is now dead...the company (Lesspain) has been sold and development has ceased. However, they continue to sell the old product.

[MarisLidaka]

Any opinions about Kyno vs Keyflow Pro?

[RobertBusschots]

How did you export footage including metadata to DaVinci Resolve???

[regikeyz]

Hey mate IS KYNO IS DEAD?!
Im using a trial of Kyno - impressed.. BUT NO REPLY FROM THEIR SUPPORT IN WEEKS
You mention you are an editor - Is there a Kyno alternative ? There must be - how do big doc films managed 200 hours of footage? help appreciated thanks

[jcsfx]

in your latest video where you have comments disable you're showing FCPX 10.4.4 and the current version is 10.4.5 is this the reason why you disable the comments on that video? you're showing an older version and you're claiming it happened this January of 2019...