VAST-Native Media Asset Management for Post-Production & VFX

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SpaceHarbor is a media asset management platform built on the VAST Data Platform. It provides asset ingest, metadata extraction, approval workflows, and VFX hierarchy management for post-production and visual effects studios.

Key Capabilities

• Asset Management — Ingest, browse, search, and approve media assets (EXR sequences, video, DPX, images)
• VFX Hierarchy — Projects, sequences, shots, and versions with full lineage tracking
• VAST-Native Pipeline — DataEngine functions for EXR inspection, proxy generation, transcoding, and editorial conforming
• Approval Workflows — Review queues, approve/reject flows, and dailies playlists
• Enterprise Identity — Local auth, OIDC/SSO, SCIM provisioning, RBAC with role-based access control
• Platform Settings — Admin UI for VAST Database, Event Broker, DataEngine, and S3 storage configuration
• Analytics — Asset, pipeline, storage, and render farm dashboards

Screenshots

Platform Settings — VAST Database, Event Broker, DataEngine, S3

Analytics Dashboard

Architecture

┌─────────────┐     ┌──────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────────┐
│   Web UI    │────▸│  Control Plane   │────▸│   VAST Platform     │
│  React/Vite │     │  Fastify / Node  │     │                     │
└─────────────┘     └──────────────────┘     │  ▸ VAST Database    │
                           │                  │  ▸ VAST DataEngine  │
                    ┌──────┴──────┐           │  ▸ Event Broker     │
                    │  DataEngine │           │  ▸ S3 Object Store  │
                    │  Functions  │           │  ▸ VAST Catalog     │
                    │  (Python)   │           └─────────────────────┘
                    └─────────────┘
                    ▸ EXR Inspector      ▸ OIIO Proxy Generator
                    ▸ FFmpeg Transcoder  ▸ OTIO Parser
                    ▸ MaterialX Parser   ▸ Provenance Recorder

Storage access via NFS, SMB, and S3 — configurable per deployment.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/ssotoa70/SpaceHarbor.git
cd SpaceHarbor

# Control plane
cd services/control-plane && npm ci && npm run dev

# Web UI (separate terminal)
cd services/web-ui && npm ci && npm run dev

Default dev login: admin@spaceharbor.dev / Admin1234!dev

See the Wiki for full deployment and configuration guides.

Documentation

Guide	Description
Wiki Home	Documentation hub
Quick Start	Get running in 5 minutes
Deployment Guide	Production deployment
Architecture	System design and decisions
API Reference	OpenAPI / Swagger docs
Configuration	Settings and storage connectors
Identity & Access	Auth, RBAC, SCIM

Tech Stack

• Control Plane: Fastify, TypeScript, tsx runtime
• Web UI: React 18, Vite, Tailwind CSS v4
• DataEngine Functions: Python (OpenEXR, FFmpeg, OIIO, OpenTimelineIO, MaterialX)
• Persistence: VAST Database, local in-memory for development
• Events: VAST Event Broker (Confluent Kafka)
• Deployment: Docker Compose

License

Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE for details.