MWSF: New digital management app Flow-s from GridIron
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:09am
MWSF: GridIron Software has announced GridIron Flow, new digital content management software for creative professionals working on graphic design, web, and video projects. Flow automatically tracks the design process from idea to end result and manages assets and applications.
The product is being shown publicly for the first time at this week’s Macworld Conference & Expo in booth S-334. GridIron Flow uses a system to automatically track workflows by recording all Import/Export, Save/Save As, and Copy/Paste actions in a project. It understands the file formats for virtually all creative professional applications, including those from Apple and Adobe, and maintains the relationships between stills, movies, sound clips, fonts, plug-ins, and color swatches on all local, network, and removable storage devices, according to Steve Forde, CEO of GridIron Software.
Using Real-Time Asset Tracking technology, GridIron Flow automatically builds Workflow Maps for projects. A Workflow Map shows the files used in the workflow and how they’re connected to one another. Workflow Maps display all related application project files, media assets, and internal structures such as comps and layers. By selecting any file in the Workflow Map, users can view its fonts, color swatches, and the application plug-ins used to create it.
Other features in Flow include: a Workflow Calendar that displays the time, date, and duration of projects for up to a year; Visual Versions, which automatically track versions of media files, including thumbnails and metadata, as a project evolves, allowing users to revert to a previous version of a file anywhere in their workflow; and Tags and Annotations, which provide tags and sticky-note style annotations to assets or projects and support custom tags and metadata standards. In addition, GridIron offers the Flow software development kit to tool vendors so they can create custom extensions to support their file formats
GridIron Flow will be available this summer for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. For more info and to sign up for the upcoming public beta go here.
The “Macsimum MWSF 2007 Coupon Book” is available for download. You can find it here and print it as a PDF. It has discounts, special offers and promotions in conjunction with the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
