Vignette Rich Media Services

A Product of the Vignette Digital Services Hub

Optimizing Web Asset Management for Rich Media Editors

As a leader in the Web Content Management space, Vignette understands the content needs of our customers are changing. It's about creating an engaging experience for consumers by tightly integrating rich media to enrich the interaction. But how do you accomplish this when your content—owned, created by customers, and/or licensed for use—continues to grow explosively? Vignette's Rich Media Services product provides a solid management foundation for your rich media assets, transforming them into the backbone on which you can create great online experiences for your customers.

Effective Management of Rich Media

Rich Media Services provides enhanced features specific to the management of images, podcasts, Adobe Flash files and video metadata. This solution allows editors who work with this rich media to streamline the management of libraries, approval, metadata tagging and publishing of these assets.

It Starts from upload

To help with the growing volume of content, multiple files can be uploaded at once, and tagged with default metadata in the same process. Embedded metadata is automatically extracted upon upload, as well as thumbnails for images. These are then stored alongside any user specified metadata. Additionally, editors are able to manipulate image assets by performing operations such as cropping, resizing, rotation, color and brightness effects.

Optimized User Interface Features

The goal is simple: make it as easy as possible for editors to effectively manage their Web assets. Rich Media Services offers a number of unique functions to enable this. These include:

Adaptive user interface — Editors can set personal preferences or choose from one of two themes or interface styles.

Personal Media Shelf — Allows easier retrieval and management for favorite assets, or assets most recently modified or uploaded by the user.

Optimized full-text search or filtering and query options — Uses specific attributes, and allows editors to customize the user interface to meet their default preferences for search results display, default view styles and theme.

Manage multiple image sizes and device formats as one

With Rich Media Services, editors can reuse and share rich media assets across multiple sites and user experience channels such as PC, set-top box, mobile devices and thick client applications. But more importantly, even with multiple distribution end points, the assets are stored and published only once. Rich Media Services also provides the ability to group multiple size or device specific formats as one rich media asset. The entire group can then be entered into the workflow, be approved, managed and published or deleted as one item, one operation.

Desktop client provides enhanced usability

Enhanced capabilities are available with the optional desktop client, providing a seamless desktop integration. The client provides enhanced upload capabilities such as the ability to drag and drop local files directly from the desktop for upload and manipulation. Common steps or activities can be automated by configuring Rich Media Services to generate image variations and automatically pre-assign specific metadata. The desktop integration's management capabilities allow for rapid searching, previewing and metadata assignment after upload. Preferences specific to the desktop integration can also be set creating a customized user experience for the upload and management process from the desktop. These enhanced features are all available directly on the desktop, even before upload, and reduce the number of steps to complete a given task making media editors immediately more productive.

Feature and Benefits

Rich Media Libraries	Manage libraries of images, video metadata, podcasts, Flash and other RIA components. Manage multiple formats, sizes and device specific media as one object.
Automated Thumbnail/ Metadata Generation & Extraction	Extract and generate media metadata upon upload, including embedded image data in the EXIF format. Automatically generate thumbnails from gif, png, jpeg, bmp and tiff formats, or override with a custom thumbnail.
Image Manipulation	Resize, rotate, crop, contrast, color and brightness adjustments.
AJAX based User Interface	Fast and Responsive UI, with many operations performed without full page reloads.
Full-Text Search & Rapid Filtering	Rapidly filter media objects on attributes. Perform in-context actions against items in one click, such as Edit, View info, Preview and Add to Shelf.
Inline View & Quick Edit	View and edit metadata inline on list and thumbnail results pages.
Personal Media Shelf	Personal shelf for quick access to “my rich media assets.” Access personal items tagged as favorites, recently uploaded items, and recently modified items.
Advanced Multi-File Upload	Upload multiple media objects at once, with progress indicators and the ability to specify default metadata for all, or override each item with a specific title, caption or upload folder.
Personal Themes and Preferences	Specify personal preferences, and choose a between themes such as the Media theme or Blue theme.
Enhanced L10N Support	All screen text in Rich Media can now be localized, including administrative reference data. Includes a dedicated theme to support right-to-left languages.
Desktop Integration	Manage rich media assets directly from the desktop. Drag and drop multiple images and other web assets directly from the desktop to the client for seamless editing and upload. The client uses Adobe AIR technology and is able to run on both Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX desktops.
Offline Automations	Create and configure automations to script any number of steps. Automations can pre-assign metadata and generate multiple image sizes or formats, saving hundreds of clicks.
Offline Image Editing	Edit and manipulate images or generated image formats directly on the desktop prior to upload, saving time by avoid costly round trips to the server. Full web based editor is available on the desktop providing crop, resize, rotate and color/brightness manipulation.