NHNZ Worldwide
NHNZ Worldwide uses iBase to manage global video library assets, bringing metadata, permissions and search into one governed DAM environment.
Case study
NHNZ Worldwide Global Video Library Management
This New Zealand film production company uses iBase DAM to organise 200,000+ high-quality video footage items, support collaboration across offices in the USA, New Zealand, Singapore, Australia and South Africa, and offer online previews for global sales.
Project summary
Project Summary
iBase helps media production teams at NHNZ Worldwide manage a global video library, keeping assets organised, searchable and governed.
Global Video Library Management
The system connects video and media assets with records, permissions and everyday access needs.
Video and Media Workflows
Media production teams can organise, protect and share digital assets through structured DAM workflows.
Project focus
Project Focus
NHNZ Worldwide is an award-winning New Zealand-based factual television production house creating original content for global broadcasters. NHNZ contacted iBase when they were looking for a supplier to help them with the development of their website.
iBase provided NHNZ with a comprehensive video cataloguing tool and customised browser-based front-end, with the ability to add clips & metadata and publish them, with video thumbnails, to the public interface where users can search using a variety of methods, preview the clips and request licences for full-length, high-resolution versions.
NHNZ Worldwide is a combination of iBase core functionality and custom features built and delivered according to NHNZ's specification, including:
Asset Organisation
Assets can be grouped, described and retrieved without relying on disconnected folders.
Media Handling
Video, audio, image and document assets can be managed together in one searchable system.
Document Preview
Documents can be previewed in the browser without separate viewing software.
Search and Discovery
Users can find relevant assets through structured search, metadata and browsing tools.
DAM outcomes
DAM Outcomes
iBase helps NHNZ Worldwide keep digital assets organised, searchable and ready for approved reuse.
Metadata, permissions and access controls sit alongside the assets, giving teams a single governed source for day-to-day work.
Staff and users can reach approved material more quickly, with less reliance on fragmented storage or manual transfers.
Client view
Client Perspective
After an 18 month worldwide search to find a suitable Digital Asset Management solution that would enable us to take our vast archive of stock footage online we found iBase. Taking their standard platform we worked closely with their development team to tailor the system to our very specific needs. This included migrating over 200,000 text records from a legacy system to iBase, and taking the records online and linking them with newly made video clips. The iBase team is professional, expert and diligent, and comes highly recommended.
Caroline Cook, Director, Natural History New Zealand
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