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Hi Guys,

Some of you may know i stop doing 3D as a freelancer some time ago to jump to work on local tv station full time.. During that time i was facing some particular problem that the broadcasters have.. for example, how to handle hundred of videos, so i started to develop a media asset management system..
After many many years of development i have a very very solid product called AMELIA

Then, after 10 years working on that tv station i was fired few months ago due de covid crisis here..
So i started to work on this project full time..

Here in Uruguay, we are a 3 million people, 3 channels, so can imagine the market here is small so i have to jump world wide to make the difference.. $$$$$$

So the question is, any of you are interested to make some good money??

Is that a good idea? Is this place (a place full of good old friends) a good place where ask??

What skills are needed? Do you need an employee, investor, business partner ... ? What would someone do to earn the money? Describe what you need with more detail.

Oh man, sorry to hear you lost your job at the station.

Yeh, I guess you can try sell it to other stations or independent people who have large video archives. There must be a way to earn from the hard investment in the software. What the next step of the plan?

You should do a search on the product name. There is an AI software package called AMELIA.

I will help you any way I can but I cannot commit time consistently. My brother was recently diagnosed with stomach cancer so we are all reeling right now.

My background before I retired was in IT Management. I managed programmers, business analysts and the business continuity office. I reported directly to the CIO and the board IT Steering Committee. I was also the firm's Y2K project manager. I have expertise in project management, contract negotiation, budgeting and cost analysis, marketing and risk management.

Let me know where you need help and I will do what I can.

smart people will always prevail... you are the smart one. Iam not affraid of you. If i will be able to help, i can try.

First thanks you all guys..

Amelia was the name of my grand mother. some of you may remember when she passed away on 2008. I made a few posts in the old trueSpace forum..
and Yes, one day i googled and i found that Amelia AI.. MY FACE when i saw their logo..

this was my first amelia Logo 2015.. and their logo.. I was thinking they copied my logo, but after some research seems they made it years before.. so i change it a little bit.. but i miss the first logo..

What i need? in fact is what i'm offering..
I'm seeking people that want to make money selling the system on their countries, we are all Tech guys, and its very easy to understand and how tv stations can use for they daily use, also archives, governments, political parties etc.. anyone with lot of media archive is a possible customer.

To jump world wide i translate it to English, so maybe i need some beta testers too
A MAM (media asset management software) cost lot of money but you have to find the customer. that's the work.

Maybe we can create a Zoom meeting and show you the system, what is and how it works..

"I will help you any way I can but I cannot commit time consistently. My brother was recently diagnosed with stomach cancer so we are all reeling right now." Sorry to hear that.. and sure, money is nothing compared such difficult moment.. stay strong and best wishes.

Sorry to hear that William!
Cant make any promises..had to many things that didnt work out due to family problems etc..but video and photography is my job...so yes if I can help a little..maybe ..little by little..ie testing and app design..
Would it be possible at least to share what kind of asset management it would be! I saw something from Germany along these line the other day..!

RAYMAN wrote: 13 Dec 2020, 19:48 Sorry to hear that William!
Cant make any promises..had to many things that didnt work out due to family problems etc..but video and photography is my job...so yes if I can help a little..maybe ..little by little..ie testing and app design..
Would it be possible at least to share what kind of asset management it would be! I saw something from Germany along these line the other day..!

Thanks Rayman, the system is already designed. it handles more than 582k videos, audios and pictures. more than 138572 hours of video and audio are loaded on the testing server. Work with video up to 8k, can export videos and make live streaming on youtube and Facebook. will try to show an example of the system, maybe will give an idea of what im talking about and why i need to show it worldwide.

I hope you succeed with this! If I had any useful skills I would help. I can imagine many legal issues with operating internationally. Lawyers = $.

I checked the US trademark office to see if Amelia was registered. An AI company has it for "in use" (status 1A) and an aircraft related company has two entries for "intend to use" (status 1B). From the "tips" page: "Note that the identical mark could be registered to different parties if the goods and/or services are in no way related, e.g., for computers and soft drinks. "
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield ... uhox7.2.15
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield ... uhox7.2.16
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield ... uhox7.2.30

How can we hook up to look at the English language version. That would be best done early.

There are some free team collaboration software available. We could set that up to start putting some structure to the project. I will run through my suppliers list and look for the best options. I will post my suggestions here.=

Everyone involved in the project must understand up front that none of us are accepting legal liability for tasks unless we accept that liability in writing prior to accepting any undertaking. Any work done for free is done with the best intentions without assuming any liability.

For now I can work on the language part, I can review the software itself and any documentation.

Exciting project.

I will work on a marketing plan for Canada and seek out some media contacts.

Another point to consider is the capacity of the applicaton. 582K elements is a lot but for US and Canada most TV stations are part of large corporations and they are likely required to be part of the corporate data system. There are local and smaller stations in the marketplace and we can try to sell to them. If you want to go after the bigger fish you might want to consider a larger pool. We don't need to code it now but be prepared to explain how the product can be scaled up.

Hi guys, about the trademark that's good to know that, i will contact a software lawyer to know more about that..

About that 500k is lot but not that much, its true, compared with YouTube, but for example, in my last job they had < 300k of videos.. and its a channel with 50 years of experience. So 500k it shows that can handle more than what they've got and that's just a demo. Sure it can handle more than that, but i can't keep adding more and more content to show that it works..

I will give access to anyone that want to test it, we can create a discord or something to talk about, and Other thing, is the server is a dual xenon 2U that is turned on only when i need to do testing with large datasets, have to think how give access to you without having it all the day on and maybe while nobody is using it..

Thanks for all the support, i really appreciate.

I'm a bit late to the party as always. Interesting idea Prodigy. Is Amelia designed primarily to handle large quantities of raw and/or edited video footage or could it be used for any file type?

There are no doubt quite a few media management software/api's out there already so it may be worth looking into wether you should diversify or go more niche if you want to sell it internationally.

I'm always running out of cash so if there's any task you need done specific to my skillset, I'd be happy to jump in but I am rather curious what the plan of action is right now.

Prodigy we should probably move to discord for the time being. Putting all the details on a public server could be awkward.

Hi guys,

v3rd3 wrote: 15 Dec 2020, 12:18 Prodigy we should probably move to discord for the time being. Putting all the details on a public server could be awkward.

Agree. will give some details today.

MikomDude wrote: 15 Dec 2020, 09:00 I'm a bit late to the party as always. Interesting idea Prodigy. Is Amelia designed primarily to handle large quantities of raw and/or edited video footage or could it be used for any file type?

There are no doubt quite a few media management software/api's out there already so it may be worth looking into wether you should diversify or go more niche if you want to sell it internationally.

I'm always running out of cash so if there's any task you need done specific to my skillset, I'd be happy to jump in but I am rather curious what the plan of action is right now.

--> The first part, yes, handle almost all video image and audio files. Documents is on development, but when i talk about documents, like scanned files, pdfs, maybe docs.. and i was thinking to add support to rar, zip and exe files.. but that in future..

media management software--> not like this one.. the only one that i think has something like this, is the bbc and they develop the system by themselves ..

Here's the discord channel
https://discord.gg/CNHW49dy

Or just send me a PM

Any updates?

Hi all,

Few updates. Added support to some new languages French and Catalan.

The most important step forward was the installation of a third-party proprietary software that gives full licensing control.. Cost some $$$$ but worth the money. I think that was the mayor and final step to close 2.5.

I cleaned up the UI, fixed some minor bugs and to be honest, i feel very very confident about this release.
Next goal: End and release the website and finish the User manual.

I wont bother others here adding updates about something is nor 3D related.. Hope to have the time to back to do 3D like in the past.. again, if anyone wants to know more about it, PM or mail me. so i can send you the discord channel to talk more about it and to discuss the business model.

Here we are on summer so the market is very "quiet", im focused on the rest of the world where are not in vacation mode..
I work from 8m to 2am every single day.
Advice: Love what you do + lot of Hard Work + stay positive..

Are you rich yet? How is this project going?

Not Rich Yet..

The local market is very small. The project is good, but it's difficult to offer software for a television channel to companies or individuals who don't understand why they need a media management software.

Currently, I'm implementing an assistant with an LLM like ChatGpt, which is very useful for performing tasks automatically. However, if I'm the only one using it, it doesn't make sense to invest time.

The server is currently running with over 800K videos, images, and audios. Clearly, it solves the mayority of the problems that most people with a large amount of material face.

But, as I was saying, there are only 3 television channels here. There is no culture of investing in technology, and going outside is very difficult. Creating good software is difficult. Selling it, even more!.