20 TBof rushes, reportage and stills preserved
A collection no drive will hold
The Lens-Liévin urban authority preserves its audiovisual heritage in a combined video and photo library, and decides what goes to the press and what stays internal.
The DAM that doesn't just store your video — it plays it
Video is transcoded, played and delivered the way a video platform does it — and stills, audio and documents each get their own record, player and share link.
A living library, not a box of archives
You have years of shoots, rushes and stills, and nobody left who can say what sits where. Mediasbox indexes every asset by its metadata, opens a workspace to everyone who contributes — a department, a subsidiary, a region, a partner — and keeps the whole thing searchable for as long as you want. All four players can be seen in action in the demos, image gallery and PDF viewer included.
A general-purpose DAM stores your video. It does not play it.
Your videos will not play inside your DAM?
Here they are transcoded on upload, played in adaptive streaming on a player in your own colours, and embeddable on any page — without a second tool in the chain.
Nobody knows what you hold?
Every asset carries its metadata — title, date, rights holder, keywords — and the search runs on those.
Finding one file takes half a day?
Search combines metadata, tags, dates and formats across the entire library at once.
Rushes that have slept for ten years?
What is indexed can be found, so it gets reused: a story shot in 2015 comes back for today's campaign.
Too many people to grant access to?
Each department, subsidiary, region or partner gets its own workspace, and sees nothing but its own material.
Index, search, delegate — and deliver
Video library and photo library, in the same place
Every type is a medium of its own, with its own record, metadata and player: a gallery for images, a waveform for audio, a viewer for PDFs. All of them are shared by link and embedded on a site, and grouped into collections — one per type.
A search that runs on the metadata
Filter by tag, date, format or your own descriptive fields. Indexing is what separates a video library from a shared drive that has overflowed.
Your archives open to whoever you choose
Expose a collection to your teams, to the press or to the public from the same library, without maintaining a second copy of it.
One workspace per team, subsidiary or partner
In Videas you open a workspace for each department, subsidiary, regional office or outside partner: they file their own material, you keep control of the rights.
What it changes day to day
Your teams file and find assets in the same space, instead of passing them around by link or on a hard drive.
Put any asset on your intranet, your CMS or your website with the same embed code — a video, a podcast, an image gallery or a PDF — or drive the library through the API.
Videas counts plays, hours watched and bandwidth, asset by asset and workspace by workspace.
An indexed collection becomes a resource again: communications, training and marketing draw on it instead of shooting afresh.
Three video libraries we already host
4 TBand several hundred partners filing their own material
Delegation at the scale of a public agency
ONISEP indexes its video library by metadata and opens a workspace to each partner, who submits content without going through the central team.
26regional video libraries, autonomous and walled off
One per region, without duplicating the library
France Travail gives each regional office its own workspace, its own rights and its own territory-level figures, inside one platform and one GDPR framework.
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What Videas does not do
Videas does not do the indexing for you: we give you the fields and the search, and your contributors enter the metadata. And there is no ready-made plugin into your information system.
What does a library this size cost?
€0.20
per hour of video stored, every month
€0.05
per gigabyte of stills and documents
€0
to migrate your existing catalog
There is no subscription: you draw down a prepaid credit wallet, topped up whenever you decide to. A thousand hours of stored video comes to €200 a month, on top of what your viewers actually watch — €0.02 per gigabyte delivered, with the first terabyte free every month. And our team moves your catalog over from Vimeo, YouTube or a Drive at no charge.
What our customers say about us
Videas enabled us to structure our video communications at the national level while giving each region the tools to operate independently. GDPR compliance and accessibility were non-negotiable prerequisites, and Videas delivers them natively.
Videas enabled us to centralize the management of thousands of educational videos while simplifying interactions with our partners. The ONISEP TV platform has become an essential tool for distributing our content to millions of students and families.
Frequently asked questions
What is a video DAM, and is Videas one?
A DAM — digital asset management — centralizes your digital files, describes them with metadata and makes them findable. Videas is one, built around video: video is transcoded, played and delivered natively. Stills, audio and documents are not attachments for all that — they are media in their own right, with their own record, their own player, their own share link and their own collections: an image gallery, an audio playlist. A document can also be attached to a video, but nothing requires it — the Lens-Liévin district keeps a photo library alongside its video library that way.
How do you find one video in several terabytes?
Through metadata, not file names. Every asset carries a title, a date, a description, keywords and your own descriptive fields; search combines those with format and date filters. That is what lets ONISEP hold four terabytes without losing track of a single story.
Can you give each department or partner its own space?
Yes, and it is the capability our largest clients buy first. In Videas you open a workspace per department, subsidiary, region or outside partner. Each files its own content and reaches nothing else; you keep administration, rights and the view across the whole library.
Does Videas host stills and documents too?
Yes. Video library and photo library sit together in one collection, along with PDFs, audio and attachments. The Lens-Liévin urban authority keeps twenty terabytes of rushes, reportage and stills that way, without running two separate tools or two sets of permissions.
How do you migrate a library that already exists?
Our team handles it, and it is free. We move your videos across from Vimeo, YouTube, Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, with the files, the metadata and the thumbnails. You do not re-upload by hand, and your collection stays reachable throughout.
How long are files kept?
For as long as you keep your credits topped up: storage is billed monthly, with no maximum duration and no automatic purge. Nothing is deleted without your action. Files sit on redundant backups hosted in France and stay readable in their original formats.
Can part of the collection be opened to the public?
Yes, and selectively. One collection can stay internal, go to the press over a private link, or be published openly in a channel carrying your brand. That is what Télégohelle does: controlled delivery to journalists, a public portal for everyone else.
Where is the data hosted, and under what regime?
In France, with French hosting providers, under GDPR and with no transfer outside the European Union. The player sets no cookies and no trackers, which is what lets France Travail and ONISEP publish without a consent banner and without exposing their visitors.
Does Videas replace a certified archiving system?
No, and it is a limit worth knowing before you sign. Videas preserves, backs up and logs access, but does not deliver the integrity guarantee of evidential archiving under standards such as NF Z42-013. For a legal obligation of that kind you need a certified provider.
What does a library of several terabytes cost?
Video storage is billed at €0.20 per hour per month, other files at €0.05 per gigabyte. A thousand hours therefore comes to €200 a month, plus the delivery you actually use at €0.02 per gigabyte, with the first terabyte free each month. No subscription.