About Dynamic Media Image Profiles and Video Profiles about-dm-image-video-profiles
An Image Profile or Video Profile is a recipe for what options to apply to assets that you upload to a folder. For example, you can specify what video encoding to apply to Dynamic Media video assets that you upload. Or, what Image Profile to apply to Dynamic Media image assets to have them properly cropped.
In Dynamic Media, you can create two types of profiles, which are covered in detail at the following links:
See also Metadata profiles.
You must have Administrator rights to create, edit, and delete Dynamic Media Image Profiles or Dynamic Media Video Profiles.
After you create your Image Profile or Video Profile, you assign it to one or more folders that you use for newly uploaded Dynamic Media assets.
See also Best Practices for Organizing your Digital Assets for using Processing Profiles.
Reprocess Dynamic Media assets in a folder reprocessing-assets
You can reprocess assets in a folder that already has an existing Dynamic Media Image Profile or a Dynamic Media Video Profile that you later changed.
For example, suppose you created a Dynamic Media Image Profile and assigned it to a folder. Any image assets you uploaded to the folder automatically had the Image Profile applied to the assets. However, later you decide to add a new smart crop ratio to the Image Profile. Now, instead of having to select and reupload the assets to the folder all over again, you simply run the Dynamic Media Reprocess workflow.
You can run the reprocess workflow on an asset for which processing failed the first time. Even if you have not edited an Image Profile or Video profile, or you have already applied an Image Profile or Video Profile, you can still run the reprocess workflow on a folder of assets anytime.
You can optionally adjust the batch size of the reprocess workflow from a default of 50 assets up to 1000 assets. When you run the Dynamic Media Reprocess workflow on a folder, assets are grouped in batches, then sent to the Dynamic Media server for processing. Following processing, the metadata of each asset in the entire batch set is updated on Adobe Experience Manager. If the batch size is large, you can experience a delay in processing. Or, if the batch size is too small, it can cause too many roundtrips to the Dynamic Media server.
See Adjust the batch size of the reprocess workflow.
To reprocess Dynamic Media assets in a folder:
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In Experience Manager, from the Assets page, navigate to an assets folder that has an Image Profile or a Video Profile assigned to it and for which you want to apply the Dynamic Media Reprocess workflow.
Folders that have an Image Profile or Video Profile assigned to it have the profile’s name appear directly below the folder name in Card View.
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Select a folder.
- The workflow considers all files in the selected folder, recursively.
- If there are one or more subfolders with assets in the main selected folder, the workflow reprocesses every asset in the folder hierarchy.
- As a best practice, avoid running this workflow on a folder hierarchy that has more than 1000 assets.
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Near the upper-left corner of the page, from the drop-down list, select Timeline.
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Near the lower-left corner of the page, to the right of the Comment field, select the carat icon ( ^ ) .
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Select Start Workflow.
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From the Start Workflow drop-down list, choose Dynamic Media Reprocess.
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(Optional) In the Enter title of workflow text field, enter a name for the workflow. You can use the name to reference the workflow instance, if necessary.
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Select Start, then select Confirm.
To monitor the workflow or check its progress, from the Experience Manager main console page, select Tools > Workflow. On the Workflow Instances page, select a workflow. On the menu bar, select Open History. You can also terminate, suspend, or rename a selected workflow from the same Workflow Instances page.
Adjust the batch size of the reprocess workflow (optional) adjusting-load
(Optional) The default batch size in the reprocessing workflow is 50 assets per job. This optimal batch size is governed by the average asset size and the MIME types of assets on which the reprocess is run. A higher value means you have many files in a single reprocessing job. So, the processing banner stays on Experience Manager assets for a longer time. However, if the average file size is small–1 MB or less–Adobe recommends that you increase the value to several 100, but never more than a 1000. If the average file size is hundreds of megabytes, Adobe recommends that you lower the batch size up to 10.
To optionally adjust the batch size of the reprocess workflow:
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In Experience Manager, select Adobe Experience Manager to access the global navigation console, then select the Tools (hammer) icon > Workflow > Models.
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On the Workflow Models page, in Card View or List View, select Dynamic Media Reprocess.
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In the toolbar, select Edit. A new browser tab opens the Dynamic Media Reprocess workflow model page.
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On the Dynamic Media Reprocess workflow page, near the upper-right corner, select Edit to “unlock” the workflow.
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In the workflow, select the Scene7 Batch Upload component to open the toolbar, then select Configure in the toolbar.
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On the Batch Upload to Scene7—Step Properties dialog box, set the following:
- In the Title and Description text fields, enter a new title and description for the job, if desired.
- Select Handler Advance if your handler will advance to the next step.
- In the Timeout field, enter the external process timeout (seconds).
- In the Period field, enter a polling interval (seconds) to test for the completion of the external process.
- In the Batch field, enter the maximum number of assets (50-1000) to process in a Dynamic Media server batch processing upload job.
- Select Advance on timeout if you want to advance when the timeout is reached. Deselect if you want to proceed to the inbox when the timeout is reached.
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In the upper-right corner of the Batch Upload to Scene7 – Step Properties dialog box, select Done.
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In the upper-right corner of the Dynamic Media Reprocess workflow model page, select Sync. When you see Synced, the workflow runtime model is successfully synchronized and ready to reprocess assets in a folder.
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Close the browser tab that shows the Dynamic Media Reprocess workflow model.