NIM’s comprehensive feature set is designed to provide you with a greater understanding of your business.
Intelligent insight across scheduling, timecards, task tracking, and creative review enable sharper focus across even the most complex projects, while in-depth bidding functionality means you won’t run over budget.
What’s more, NIM is completely secure. In contrast to cloud-based solutions, NIM is locally installed, meaning your data remains secure behind a firewall.
DASHBOARD
Overview
Your home base. NIM’s dashboard provides immediate access to all of a studio’s assigned jobs, tasks, and notes at the click of a button.
Bookmarks
Only want to see jobs that are relevant to you? User-defined bookmarks enable you to do just that.
My Tasks
Manage your assigned tasks across jobs with full access to all notes, review items, and renders.
My Notes
Easily access all notes sent to you – including whiteboard images – without digging down into the job.
JOB TRACKING
Job Details
Access all job information at a glance via the project’s homepage, with inline editing for all elements.
Task Scheduling
Gantt chart scheduling means your artists know exactly when they need to start, and finish, assigned tasks.
Studio Task View
The ultimate bird’s-eye view of all tasks, all jobs and all artists – it’s your studio, visualized.
Archiving
Quickly restore any prior job using unique ID keys and log project archives, and add multiple jobs per backup media for maximum density.
Resource Scheduling
Optimize time management – schedule resources and artists based on keywords and jobs, and explore further depth with user-defined custom statuses.
Color Coded Tasks
Instantly recognize task status via NIM’s visually led and studio-defined color coding functionality.
Drag & Drop Assignment
Make quick changes on the fly: add tasks to assets and shots, add artist assignment to tasks, and make task status updates via simple drag-and-drop menus.
Media Logging
Monitor all media flowing through the studio via date-stamped tracking logs.
PROJECT STRUCTURES
Studio Defined Project Structures
Work the way you like: NIM manages entire projects, from folder structure onwards, using templates defined by you.
Multiple Templates
Accommodate the needs of varied jobs by creating multiple project structure templates tailored to each task at hand.
Variable Project Structures
Gain greater oversight by defining your project folders in relation to the items they contain, rather than using static folder structures.
Multi-location Server Aware
Achieve total project consistency – attach multiple servers to a job to replicate assigned project structure across all connected systems.
Managed or Unmanaged
NIM is totally flexible – it can be used with or without managed project structures, so it can easily integrate into any studio environment.
CREATIVE REVIEW
Whiteboard Tools
Communicate creative concepts – share visual feedback using on-video drawing and text tools. All whiteboard drawings are saved per frame and are viewable at any time.
Upload Dailies & Edits
Simply drag and drop direct from your desktop to upload edits or individual dailies for review.
Automatic Dailies Creation
Seamless integration with Thinkbox’s Deadline render management means NIM can automatically upload Deadline Draft renders direct to the user’s task for review.
PDF Note Export
Generate a record of all notes on an edit or task dailies via PDF export – great for sharing with artists or clients following a session.
FINANCIAL TRACKING
Bidding
Access bidding functionality you won’t find anywhere else: create bids from studio-defined line items and custom bid templates, and version bids to keep track of changes throughout the bidding process. Multiple bids can be awarded to accommodate multiple phases of a job and client overages, and export PDFs are great for presenting directly to the client.
Timecards
Ensure artists’ time is well spent: NIM charts the progression of a project by artist time with per-user overtime and double-time. If you’re working across multiple studios, artists can be categorized by location to quickly review division of labor.
Timecard Approvals
Enjoy easy yet reliable time management via a robust 4-stage Timecard Approval process.
Actualization
Know what was spent and where: calculate job actuals from an awarded bid against timecards, project expenses and overages. Determine estimated hard costs and track money spent on overtime and double-time throughout the course of the project and compare your initial bid estimate against the final result.
Projections
Remove financial guesswork: project the financial outcome of your project on a daily, weekly, or full-job basis, using estimated time per artist and expenses to compare against the original bid and running actuals.
VERSION & PUBLISHING
File Management
Work at speed: file naming conventions are automatically handled when saved from content applications that support NIM’s connectors.
Publishing
Automatically publish files directly from 3rd party software or within NIM. The use of symbolic linking and file replication are also available depending on server OS.
Asset Masters
Streamline your referencing systems: Asset Masters provide version-less asset entities.
CONNECTORS
3rd Party Integration
NIM connectors plug directly into your favorite content creation software allowing you to select files by task and version rather than name.
Autodesk
Maya®, 3dsMax®, Flame®
Adobe®
Photoshop®, AfterEffects® & Premiere®
The Foundry
NukeStudio®, Nuke®, & Hiero®
Maxon®
Cinema4D™
Side Effects
Houdini
Thinkbox Software
Deadline Render Management
SYSTEM FEATURES
Virtual Appliance
We ensure your server is fully configured and working from day one by distributing NIM as a virtual appliance.
Plug & Play
Get up and running with ease – simply hit start on your virtual server and you’re ready to dive into NIM.
API Keys
API Keys enable per-user security group-defined API access.
Email Notification
Stay up to date with the latest studio updates and feedback via your inbox.
API
Connect the way that makes most sense to your studio via NIM’s robust Python and Web API. Create custom solutions or access NIM directly from your existing toolset, incorporating its strength into your studio pipeline.
SECURITY
Studio Defined Permissions
Define who can see what and when: assign specific permission groups across your studio.
Private Jobs
Keep information secure: only users that are assigned to the project can see private project details, meaning sensitive jobs stay under wraps.
Security Groups
Add object-based security access to jobs, assets, shots, and custom fields via enhanced Security Groups.
Action Based Security
Manage security on a deep level – granular permission items allow for specific abilities to be granted on a per-action level.
Local Server
Safely guard information behind your firewall – NIM lives as a virtual appliance on your local network so project work never leaves the studio.
HTTPS/SSL
Ensure secure connectivity across all communications.
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