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Cumulus 5.5
Cumulus is a Digital Asset Managment Sytem that enables digital and media
professionals to organise, track, preview, copy, move, annotate and archive
virtually any type of digital media, including graphic, page layout, presentation,
sound, and video files, turning them into Assets. If you can effectively
track, locate and retrieve these assets, you can improve quality and workflow,
saving yourself and your company time and money.

Within the graphics, publishing, and multimedia industries, digital assets
can be virtually any type of digital media file including, image, graphic,
page layout, sound and video files, as well as URLs. Cumulus makes organising
and accessing media assets easy.
To get started, you need to understand only a few basic concepts. Cumulus
tracks media assets in a special file called a catalog. As you catalog
media assets, Cumulus creates a catalog entry - called a record - for
each asset. All records contain some searchable information on the assets
they represent. The visible set of records from a catalog is called a
collection. To make searching and retrieving records easier, Cumulus lets
you organize and classify records into logical groups called categories.
Once records are cataloged, you can view each one as a graphical thumbnail
(with selected asset information lines) or as plain text. You can search
and retrieve records within Cumulus. Once you locate the record youre
looking for, you can preview it, copy it, or move it to a new location.
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