Lens turns every black-box file into a browser preview: 3D models spin, camera RAW opens, EXR frames display, 5,000-page PDFs page through. No copies, no plugins, no specialist workstation.
Camera RAW, VFX frames, 3D models, formats that died years ago. Files that used to need a specialist workstation now open in your browser, in seconds.
Lens reads files where they already live: cloud, on-prem, network storage. No migration project, no proxy farm, no waiting on a copy before you can look.
A ~500 MB video previews from a ~10 MB read: ~50x lighter in our tests. Browsing a deep archive feels instant, not expensive.
A library only exists if you can see into it. When every file previews, your team finds what you already paid for before budgeting it again.
3D and CAD models, camera RAW from major systems, VFX and film frames such as EXR and DPX tone-mapped for the browser, broadcast video including MXF, 26 audio formats rendered as waveforms, and multi-page PDFs up to 5,000 pages. A small number of exotic sub-variants fall back to metadata-only handling.
Point Lens at an obj, fbx or glb and get a GPU-rendered turntable with 0, 90, 180 and 270 degree views. GPU rendering runs 10-100x faster than CPU paths, and 3D parsing runs in a disposable sandbox that fails closed.
Lens reads just the bytes it needs. On S3 that means a ~500 MB video previews from a ~10 MB read, ~50x lighter in our tests on repeat views with cache. There is no pre-generation step: previews render on first request, then cache.
Amazon S3 with byte-range reads, Box through its native API with thumbnail passthrough, Google Drive, NFS, SMB including Synology, and StorageDNA-managed LTO tape through its catalog index. Isilon and similar are reached over NFS or SMB export.
32 concurrent preview requests per node with a crash-isolated render pool, so a crash on one file is contained and the rest keep rendering. Previews stream, cache, and deliver by signed URL, and the URL's expiry never outlives the signing credential.
Counts and limits below are verified against shipping code. The full capability datasheet is available on request.
Lens previews about 140 formats directly in the browser: 3D models as GPU-rendered turntables, camera RAW files such as CR2, NEF and ARW, VFX frames such as EXR and DPX, broadcast video including MXF, 26 audio formats with waveform renders, and PDFs up to 5,000 pages. A small number of exotic sub-variants fall back to metadata-only handling.
No. Lens reads files where they live and renders previews on first request, with no pre-generation step. On S3 it uses byte-range reads, so a roughly 500 MB video previews from a roughly 10 MB read: about 50x lighter in our tests. Previews are then cached and delivered by signed URL.
Lens runs in your AWS account or on-prem as part of Asset Foundry, and in production deployments content stays in your environment. The platform is SOC 2 Type II aligned and designed for MPA content-security best practices, with SSO, role-based access control and audit logging. Preview URLs are signed, and their expiry never outlives the signing credential.