Overview
R3el is a group of passionate professionals with a common vision: to discover, digitise and deliver the world's greatest film footage. They needed a platform where footage enthusiasts could explore, organise and buy archive video.
The result is a colourful but easy-to-use portal built on AWS, with automated video processing, curated collections and a full purchase journey.
The challenge
Archive footage arrives in large volumes and needs encoding, previews and metadata before it can be published - work that doesn't scale if done by hand. Customers also needed a way to organise footage into projects and buy what they find.
The solution
Uploads are processed automatically in the cloud, using AWS S3 and AWS Lambda to encode video and generate previews and metadata before admin approval. Customers create projects and clipbins, share them with others, and pay online through PayPal.
What we delivered
- 01Automated video encodingUploaded videos are encoded, with previews and thumbnails generated automatically, then approved to go live.
- 02Metadata collectionReal-time metadata automation, so footage is searchable as soon as it is published.
- 03Customer projects & clipbinsCustomers group videos into clipbins, add them to projects, share them privately and comment.
- 04Online paymentCheckout integrated with the PayPal API.
- 05Collection managementAdmins curate collections and choose which appear on the home screen.
- 06User managementRoles and dashboards for customers and admins, including account approval.
