• Focus Areas crop templates are used to automatically crop each asset delivered via the MDC or MDO. They define the output parameters (size and aspect ratio) of the resulting rendition, and additionally the position of the Region of Interest within the result. The cropping functionality takes into account these values and the Region of Interest defined on individual assets to determine the proper crop area with an algorithm.

• Crop templates for manual cropping define cropping rules, or constraints, such as the aspect ratio or the size of the cropped area, as well as output parameters (size and aspect ratio of the resulting rendition). Such templates must be applied manually to individual asset. At the same time, the user specifies the exact position of the crop area on the asset (and it’s size and aspect ratio, if they are not defined in the selected template).