Explore NIM
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Jobs
Jobs are the hub of NIM and a starting point for any new project. They act as a parent to all related information including bids, expenses, invoices, timecards, tasks, files, and more. Create a new job in NIM following this walkthrough introducing the job list and the job dashboard.
Bookmarks allow you to create shortlists of jobs that are most important to you and are available from the NIM dashboard as well as the main toolbar.
The Job Configuration page is your central hub for editing job details, creating shows, selecting servers, defining a job’s project structure, and managing offline items.
NIM Project Structures allow you to manage your production file structure with customizable directory templates. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, you can define multiple project structures tailored to your company’s needs.
Scheduling & Calendars
This video walks through the scheduling features in NIM. The schedule allows you to assign users and resources to jobs, and book them over periods of time. There are features to track the overall utilization vs their max capacity, as well as options to create your own rules for triggering conflicts. Here we explore the schedule UI controls, creating events, defining event bundles, and building schedule filters. We also include a look at viewing user and resource utilization and capacity.
This video takes a closer look at working with user and resource utilization and capacity in the NIM schedule. The NIM schedule includes detailed utilization metrics, allowing users to view the total utilization of users or resources for each day as well as the total utilization of all items in the schedule, compared to their maximum capacity.
This video walks through configuring event conflicts in NIM schedule, how to identify any scheduling conflicts, and how to resolve them.
This video walks through using job and studio wide calendars in NIM including creating events, setting event and calendar colors, and creating event filters.
Contacts
Contacts contain the details of people or companies that you interact with in your business. Contacts in NIM track per contact notes, jobs, bid line item rate history, and client margins to analyze which clients are the most profitable as well as those that may be under performing for your business.
Creation & Review
This video covers working with assets and shots in NIM and the associated information with those items. We walk through creating shows, assets, and shot sequences, importing shots and shot details, assigning statuses, bringing projects online with NIM project structures, generating shot icons, as well as the elements, files, review items, and notes associated with assets and shots.
This video walks through creating, managing, and assigning tasks in NIM. We also explore building task workflows, scheduling tasks on the task timeline, as well as an overview of associated task items including creating task notes, uploading task review items, and logging render jobs on tasks.
Discover the collaborative review available in NIM including tools for markup and notes on videos, still images, and PDFs. In addition to the creative review tools, this video looks at grouping review items into bins, version stacking, and organizing through team shared filters.
Connectors
Discover the NIM Nuke Studio® Connector and its features, including export of shots to NIM, transcoding elements, building tracking from NIM elements, and round-tripping versions with Nuke comps.
Find out about the NIM Nuke® Connectors, using the NIM menu, using NIM Write nodes, and direct uploading of dailies using Deadline Render Management.
Take an in-depth look at the NIM Maya® Connector and how to use NIM published files and Asset Masters with Maya® file referencing.
Walkthrough the unique options available in the NIM Photoshop Connector.
Take a tour through the NIM Flame® Connector, including publishing sequences to NIM, exporting edits and dailies, and updating OpenClip versions.
The NIM Abode® Premiere® Connector allows users to work with timelines in Premiere as a fully integrated application in the pipeline.
Bids, Finances, & Actuals
NIM provides a structure within each job to manage the bidding process. Users can create multiple bids and versions of bids with customized bid line items and expenses to fit the needs of any production. Awarded bids are used to calculate financial information regarding job cost, profit, and margin in job and company wide actualizations.
The bid export settings redefine customization within NIM providing complete control over how a bid is exported to a PDF. The export settings allows users to determine which components are included in the export, the order in which they are displayed, and the contents of each component. Bid templates provide styling and formatting options to allow users to customize the exported bid PDF to meet the needs of production.
This video walks through the process of importing line items onto an existing bid estimate in NIM, including resolving any conflicts and the merging of duplicate line items. We also look at importing sections into an estimate from a shot list.
This video walks through the financials in NIM including studio invoice totals, job billing statuses, tracking invoices, managing expenses, and reconciling payroll.
This video walks through the studio actualization in NIM including the overview charts and graphs, job margins, client margins, profit centers, studio wide task totals, user costs and time overviews.
This video walks through the job actualization in NIM including the overview charts and graphs, working with job projections and the calculated actualization, as well as per task, asset, shot, and crew member total costs. We also take a look at budgeting on tasks and how the bid estimate is reflected on the task as compared to the task estimated hours.
User Rates & Timecards
This video walks through setting user’s rate as well as assigning crew to a job, the difference between user rates and job rates, and the different rate types in NIM.
This video walks through the use of the Payroll rules user rate system covering the creation of Payroll rules, applying Payroll rules to users, and reconciling user costs per pay period. Payroll rules are the foundation for a time card actualization system in NIM which calculates user cost per pay period based on a set of user defined rules. Payroll can be reconciled per pay period as a final check and balance to calculate total user time and user costs.
This video walks through creating and managing timecards from a user’s perspective in NIM. We explore creating timecards from the NIM toolbar, defining regular time, overtime, and double time hours, selecting an associated task assignment as well as managing and editing timecards via the user’s calendar and grid views, creating and editing range of timecards, and submitting timecards for approval.
This video walks through the administration and management of timecards in NIM from both the job and studio perspective. We explore the timecard overview charts and graphs for breakdowns by time type, user and location, as well as managing timecards through the calendar, grid, and day view. We dive into job crew and user totals and walk through submitting timecards for approval.
Install & Configure
Install a new NIM VM – including Oracle VirtualBox installation, configuring the NIM VM network, and licensing.
Set the NIM Media Path to an external location using Virtualbox Shared Folders.
Use Shared Folders within VirtualBox to define NIM Project Servers.
How to update the NIM VM.
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