A couple of days ago we launched the MediaSilo iPad Web-Application (http://youraccount.mediassilo.com/dailies), and have received dozens of emails with feedback. Quite honestly, I didn’t expect the amount of excitement and positive feedback we received. The iPad has certainly struck a cord with folks in video production – and for a good reason.

As we continue to develop workflows and user experiences that leverage the iPad, I thought it’d be best to highlight a couple of things about our initial release:

• How to access the iPad App – Just add “/dailies” to your usual MediaSilo link. If your account is acme, then you would go to http://acme.mediasilo.com/dailies.
• Video Playback – If videos don’t in your workspaces don’t play back, they were most likely uploaded before we switched our encoding profiles. To have them re-encoded, just send an email to support@mediasilo.com. We’ll take care of it the same day.
• Workspaces Missing – If you don’t see all of the workspaces on the iPad, not to worry. The way mobile Safari implements scrolling lists is by requiring you to use two fingers to scroll through a list. Unfortunately, there is no visual clue to the user and we had a few folks wonder about that.
• Review and Approval – We received a few emails asking when we would add review and approval capabilities. The short answer is – soon. We are exploring the limits of HTML and are weighing which feature should be reserved for the native iPad application. That being said, if you have any feedback, please send us an email.
• Dailies as a workflow – The original idea for this application came out of a custom development project. In fact, the idea started out without the iPad in mind, which is why you can also use the dailies application with any other browser. If you are using your desktop, MediaSilo will switch you to a Flash video player. We plan on releasing more workflow-specific applications in the weeks and months to come.