Photo & Video Management

Every competition or event automatically gets a photo gallery per competition/event bucket. Accredited photographers upload via the app or a desktop drop tool; uploads are EXIF-preserved, auto-resized into web/print/social sizes, and stored with provenance (who shot it, when, on what kit). Photographer accreditation management governs access — a federation issues a credential for a specific event window, which gates upload rights and ties every asset to its rights holder for licensing and attribution.

Photo consent management is the GDPR backbone. Player profiles carry a media-consent flag set at registration (and renewable), and minors require guardian consent stored in F17 safeguarding. When an upload is processed, the platform runs face detection against the participant roster: any face that maps to a player without consent is auto-blurred or moved to a restricted bucket invisible on public surfaces. Editors get a dashboard showing pending consent gaps before they publish a gallery.

Video highlight creation tools let editors clip and caption short videos directly from the broadcast studio's VOD archive (F09.04) or from raw uploads. Clips are exportable to social-ready aspect ratios (16:9, 9:16, 1:1) and can be pushed straight into F09.05 or F09.08 publishing.

The media library with tagging and search indexes everything by competition, player, club, date, photographer, and free-text caption. A communications officer can answer "give me every photo of the women's national team in 2025" in two clicks. Press kit generation per event rolls a curated selection — top 30 photos, key videos, sponsor logos, fact sheet, and rights statement — into a single downloadable bundle ready to send to journalists, complete with embargo flags and per-asset usage rights.