Pyká Project Manager for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By CaptainSchmidt

  Video editors take notice, this is a big deal…

  I’ve been searching for something like this for some time now. People are really focused on the project and organizing features… but I’m happy that my library is going to be completely backed up now. I tested this a few times. I’m a video production artist who lives contract to contract. So before I trust anything with my data I test test and test again. In the first tutorial video the App promised that it could spread my project library across several disks. So the first thing I did in my free trial period is test the library. I’ve had a stack of used external Hard Drives from before I owned a RAID disk. So I plugged them in and built a library, and a backup library that spanned 4 drives… then I loaded it with projects and wiped one of them at random. Every time I launched PPM it warned me that something happened and offered to regenerate the library from the remaining disks… it worked every time except once when I killed more than one drive. Every time it worked I reopened the projects and checked to see everything was good. Every time I opened my projects all was exactly as I left it… If you don’t have a RAID drive and you work on projects, you need something like this app to make sure you're backed up. The rest of the features made sense too but I’m still digging into them. It feels like a pro tool (no pun intended) that the big studios use to pass around their assets. Update: Ok! Color me impressed. On top of the features above, this serves as a solid project management solution. I highly recommend checking out the videos about how assets work (I think it’s chapter three). I’ve been making test projects in my spare time. The app seems to be able to reduce file space enough between versions to justify keeping multiple versions of my project. Wow! I think I’m going to make the switch.

  
  
• By AllMostDone

  OK what’s the deal!

  As the title suggest “What’s the deal”!. I want to dearly love this program but, I’m have too many problems/issues even at the start. The tutorial videos make it this application the perfect solution for a simple versioning system. The video shows that you have to do to start a project by draging a file into the main window. NOPE! Single files are not recognized as the begining of a project you must use a folder. When did I need a folder to start a project I’m honestly not sure? OK, let’s create a folder with a newly created project file into the main window; that start you your project. You get the prompt to create a project or adding an asset. From here you can create the project you want to track fill out the form and you have a proj… wait you have an asset not a project. You now have imported folder as an assest not a project with no way of changing this into trackable project. Scratch this method and lets start over. So let’s create by using the new project button. Here you get a empty project folder via a prompt of crreating a pkya folder and no way of connecting your project file to this system. If you put you project in the folder it just seems to ignore the fle even after doing a commit and refresh. So as assest tracking system 10 out of 10. Project mangement doesn’t exist. The link on Microsoft's leads you to the developers website with NO means to get support. There isn’t a FAQ, billboard and or even an email address listed there for support. The only email addess found is in the help file at the end inside pyka itself. Three days later still havn’t recieved anything back. The concepts of tracking projects via tags instead of using a bunch of folders (even though the program has you creating a BUNCH of folders) is fantastic but I would like to see the real program that the videos demonstrates not this poorly documented and poorly executed subscription model that works as a assest tracker nothing else.

  
  

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