For those who don’t know the tool: Das Element is an on-premises asset-library manager for media, VFX and 3D production, with ingest, tagging, previews and scripting/CLI integration. For background, see our earlier reports on Element 2.1 and Das Element 2.2. Version 2.3.2 is a practical maintenance update rather than a redesign.
Das Element 2.3.2, released on 7 October 2026, tackles the less glamorous but essential side of asset management: reliable ingest, usable previews and predictable metadata. The update adds reverse video playback, MTL support and CPU thread controls, alongside fixes for RAW proxies, image sequences and pipeline automation.
Ingest and processing
Image sequences containing frame gaps can now be split into separate sequences during ingest. Metadata changes can be synchronised across selected items, and category hierarchies can be generated from folder structures. Fixes address concurrent tag creation and a Windows permission error during initial ingest.
A new DASELEMENT_THREADS environment variable sets the thread count for individual CPU-heavy jobs, including FFmpeg proxy generation. By default, available CPU cores are divided by the number of workers. Proxy generation fixes cover spherical media and camera RAW files such as CR3, NEF and ARW. The developer provides no performance benchmarks.
Review, 3D and automation
The video player gains reverse playback, fullscreen (F) and mute (M) shortcuts. Das Element recommends short-GOP proxies for smoother reverse playback. Frame stepping, timeline scrubbing and short-clip filmstrips have been corrected. The update also adds MTL support, although the release notes do not specify which material properties are interpreted.
Actions can now be organised in nested subfolders; action icons can use relative paths, and an example hook file is included. The CLI receives improved quote validation and ingest logging. Gallery fixes cover searches involving spaces, underscores or hyphens, selection persistence, HDR viewer stability and refreshing additional files. Crucially for mixed-media libraries, additional files now retain their own colourspace rather than inheriting that of the main asset. New tag IDs are normalised to lowercase without spaces.
Das Element 2.3.2
Licensing: Annual subscriptions; offline/on-premises operation; floating licensing via RLM
Prices: Standard €499/year; Lite €49/year (requires Standard); CLI/API €399/year; Small Bundle €999/year; Studio Bundle €2,199/year or €849/three months
Studio Bundle: 3 Standard, 10 Lite, 1 CLI licence
Taxes: Prices exclude applicable taxes; B2B shop
Sources: Changelog, pricing and requirements, shop.
