GDI|Explorer v2.0

GDI|Explorer is a production proven, afforable and scalable system that provides digital entertainment projects with unprecedented organization, communication and workflow tools. GDI|Explorer is designed for creative individuals, workgroups collaborating on-site or via the internet as well as large studios operating worldwide.

True to its origins in professional production, GDI|Explorer is fully platform independent and runs smoothly on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX!

GDI|Explorer's built-in knowledge about digital production allows to start a production with nothing but a laptop, yet grow into a worldwide collaboration of many facilities managing terabytes of data.

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"[...] It is an amazing tool [...]"

Academy Award winning VFX Supervisor Tim McGovern on GDI|Explorer

PRODUCTION PROVEN
Over the past 18 months, GDI|Explorer has been the weapon of choice for high-end visual effects productions such as the upcoming Warner Brothers' sci-fi feature "A Sound of Thunder". For this production, GDI|Explorer managed 15 terabytes of data and information, and coordinated work between eight facilities world-wide. Read more

AFFORDABLE
We at Cirque|Digital, LLC do not believe that quality software should be expensive. Powerful organizational tools are even more important for small and medium sized companies than they are for large corporations that can afford to build in-house tools. We have priced GDI|Explorer very aggressively according to this philosophy. Read more

SCALABLE
GDI|Explorer provides a scalable solution to your asset management needs. You can start with nothing but a small laptop and a single GDI|Explorer license and scale up to a large number of powerful workstations distributed across different continents. Seemlessly. Read more

BEST PRACTICES
Out of the box GDI|Explorer is based on and comes loaded with organizational structures and naming conventions used in Hollywood's professional entertainment industry! Now individuals and smaller facilities can easily work like large scale production facilities! Read more

CUSTOMIZABLE EDITIONS
If the default naming conventions and organizational structures do not fit your needs, they can easily be customized. All naming conventions and organizanizational structures are kept in a GDI "edition". Read more

NO FILE LEFT BEHIND
GDI|Explorer allows any digital artist, workgroup or facility to organize files and information about these files in a professional and reusable manner! Maximize your creativity and minimize the time spent looking for assets or redoing work from previous productions! GDI|Explorer has no particular preference for any specific application or file format and provides a clean and comfortable way for work with files of any type. Read more

MAKE IT BETTER!
Naming conventions are always a source of headaches. Good naming conventions tend to produce long and hard to remember file names. GDI|Explorer breaks down a naming convention into its components and presents the name in an easy to use interface. No need to remember complex naming conventions! There is even a "Make it Better" button to automatically correct the names for you! Read more

COMMUNICATE
GDI|Explorer has built-in instant messaging and email integration. Instant messaging is done via the Jabber protocol, so you can communicate with users of MSN, AIM, ICQ and more. The IMAP email integration allows you to tag and file emails corresponding to the asset they refer to. Read more

RENDER QUEUE INTEGRATION
With GDI|Explorer you can submit, manage and prioritize the rendering of your 2D and 3D files directly on an unlimited number of processors using the powerful - yet free - Condor render queue. -- The power of all processors on your network is at your fingertips! Upon request, other render queue technologies can be integrated into GDI. Read more

SECURE OFF-SITE PRESENTATIONS
Present your work to your clients with the GDI|Present extension bundle. Package your files and notes into an encrypted standalone presentation, which you can burn to any CD or DVD. This presentation can only be unlocked with a special key that is stored on an external USB thumb drive. You no longer have to worry about your latest work being pirated and floating around on the internet. Read more

SYNCHRONIZE AND DATA I/O
GDI|Explorer's built-in Synchronization Tool lets you easily synchronize data and information between different disks, databases, ftp sites and more. Your assets can also be packaged to or unpacked from an external firewire or USB/USB2 drive -- ideal for transferring huge amounts of data over low bandwidth connections. Read more

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