Digital Asset Management for Small Team

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My church has a small team of "production" staff (graphics designers, video editors, photographers, videographers, managers). Today, we pretty much share everything using Dropbox Teams. We mainly product videos for our church, but also traditional graphics and docs for social media posts, printed signs/brochures and such. We mainly use Adobe Suite (Premiere Pro, PS, IL, AE, ID).

While the brunt of our work and workflow is video related, much of what we incorporate are other assets such as RAW/PSD/JPG/PNG files and some limited AI (line art) files that are used to create supporting assets in our simple production pipeline.

I've been looking for a small team digital asset manager that can help glue our assets and workflows together...preferably hybrid (cloud, on prem). Most of our team is on prem, but we do get a lot of integration through volunteers (hence, dropbox).

Adobe Exerpience Manager is way outside our budget. we barely have maybe $500-$1000 to spend on this. We've been looking at ICONIK. But can't seem to find DAMs in our price range, and most of what we see are cloud-based. we really want to mainly be ONPREM with some ability to share assets to remote volunteers from time to time.

Anyways, I was just curious if anyone had any thoughts about what their team uses. We'd like to completely get off DBX for several reasons. We do have internal NAS storage, but this doesn't give any of the things like image preview, tagging, collecions.  We've mainly (90%) been using DBX with some local storage (DAS, NAS) and no DAM at all.

Really, we're looking at the complete puzzle:

Asset Storage (on prem mostly, but some hybrid cloud) (storage of files on NAS with cloud access)

Integration with Adobe Suite (extentions)

Asset preview, tagging, keywording, searching

Project Folders (We create weekly new sermons. So simply organizing things in a project folder structure that a small team can work together on).

I know there are large scale professional systems out there that can do this. But I'm really curious what smaller agencies or business are using for centralizing their assets, workflows.

I apologize in advance if this is an inapprpriate place to list this question. We are an advid Adobe customer, just small in scale.

Really looking for some learning and wisdom for others who went through the process of growing up their team's tools and workflows.

[John V Knowles]

I can't speak to 3rd-party DAM solutions, but for starters I would integrate Adobe Bridge with your workflow for easy previews and tagging. In Premiere you can set up PRODUCTIONS on your shared storage, which allows for easy asset sharing and organization rather than a loose collection of projects. Also, you can utilize Libraries for sharing common elements like colors, images, layer styles, essential graphics, etc. 

[R Neil Haugen]

John's answer hits everything I would suggest.

Neil