Adobe Drive 3

[ashleykaryl]

I've just come across something called Adobe Drive 3 at Macupdate and wondered if anybody has tried this? I've been relying on Lightroom until now.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5166&PID=3146232

[Roelof]

It does not seem a DAM to mee (like Lightroom) but 'just' a connector between DAM systems and Adobe Creative Suite 5/CS5.5 applications: 
http://www.adobe.com/products/adobedrive.html
Roelof

[R. Neil Haugen]

Hmm ... just went to their website, and like SO much computer gobble-dee-gook, knew no more AFTER reading their stuff than before. It's supposed to help "connect" DAM programs with CS-suite programs ... like, um, how, in plain Americansk, and um ... what programs?

Geepers.

Neil

[Roelof]

It's not an application. So there is no user interface to understand.
Adobe Drive 3 just makes functionality available in non-Adobe DAM systems that makes it easie to edit the images in it with adobe software. That's how i understood it...
Roelof

[cyangate]

There are couple applications in the market that support Adobe Drive. The basic idea is the ability to look at your library of content (assumed to be stored in a DAM system) to become accessible in creative suite via Adobe Drive. It also makes your DAM system look like a network share or even makes it accessible from Adobe Bridge.

Adobe has its own DAM system now CQ5, it is pretty complex looking and expensive. There are also other solutions out there such as http://www.cyangate.com/products/elvis-dam/. There is a nice demo of Elvis DAM working with Adobe Drive here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAXippt-F8Q