The Media Delivery Cloud module is only available if a Media Delivery Cloud license is activated via the Remote Admin module of the Cumulus (Web) Server Console. This section describes how to configure the Media Delivery Cloud option via the Media Delivery Cloud module.
PRECONDITIONS:
• You need to be logged in as the Cumulus Administrator to work with the Media Delivery Cloud module.
• A Media Delivery Cloud license must be purchased and activated via the Remote Admin module of the Cumulus (Web) Server Console.
The Media Delivery Cloud is configured as follows:
Configuration
Basic Media Delivery Cloud settings are configured here.
• Customer ID – Amazon S3 account identifier. Customers may use an already existing account of their own, or an account provided by Canto.
• Endpoint URL – Provided by Canto.
• Password – The password belonging to the customer’s AWS Customer ID. Required to ensure that only authorized users can upload files to the Media Delivery Cloud (including e.g. watermark images)
• Master Image Asset Action – A table with the Asset Actions that will generate master images. You can add more Asset Actions (from the Asset Actions available at the Cumulus Server), remove Asset Actions from the list, and define the order in which they will be performed, using the appropriate buttons.
If there are multiple Asset Actions listed, they will be performed in the given order. However, as soon as an Asset Action generates a result, the rest of the Asset Actions in the list is ignored. This behavior can be used to easily generate master images from different asset types, e.g. images or videos, that require different asset actions to generate them.
• Generate asset download names from field value – In order to make MDC-delivered assets more SEO-friendly, and to provide downloads like PDF-brochures with a speaking name, the value of a metadata field is added to the generated URLs.
• Field for asset download name – The field who’s value is added the URL. Use the ... button to select a field. Only fields of type “string” are available.
• Fallback fields – If there is no field configured, or the configured field has no value, the Record Name will be added to the URL. In the unlikely case that this field has no value, too, the Asset Name is used. If even this field has no value, nothing is added to the asset URL.
The added string is shortened to 500 characters to make a reasonable URL size.
Typically the record or asset name contains a file name extension, separated by a period character. If the string to be added does not contain any period character Cumulus tries to determine the correct file name extension based on the “File Format Identifier” field.
• Image ID of fallback image – The Media Delivery Cloud Image ID of the image that shall be displayed if a published image is no longer available on the MDC.
Any image published to the MDC can serve as fallback image. To use an image as fallback, you copy it’s Media Delivery Cloud Image ID field value into this field.
Note that fallback images can be provided for delivered renditions only, not for original assets. Also keep in mind that every operation that is applied to generate a rendition (e.g. crop, resize) is also applied to the fallback image!
Watermarks
A watermark can be applied to any asset or asset rendition that is distributed via the Media Delivery Cloud.
You can upload multiple files that can be used as watermarks.
• Watermark images – List of uploaded images that are available to be used as watermarks. You can add more images from your hard drive or network environment, replace existing watermark images, or remove them entirely vie the respective buttons.
If you replace a watermark image (via the Edit button), the ID stays the same as before. In other words, existing watermarks will be updated to the new image.
NOTE: Only image files can be used for watermarking. Before an image is actually uploaded, it is converted to PNG and downscaled to the configured size of the master image.