5. Working with Assets

CoreMedia Advanced Asset Management allows you to store and manage your digital assets (for example, high-resolution pictures of products) in the CoreMedia system. CoreMedia Content Cloud stores the asset in the original format (for example a PSD Photoshop file) together with several renditions for different use cases.

A rendition is a derivative of the raw asset, suitable for use in output channels, possibly with some further automated processing. A rendition might be, for example, a cropped and contrast-adjusted image in a standardized file format whereas the original file might be stored in the proprietary format of the image editing software in use. Blueprint contains a download portal, where you can comfortably present your assets for download.

An Asset content item can not directly be used on your website, except for the download portal. Therefore, you can create a Picture or Video item from a rendition in an Asset item as described in Section 5.3, “Creating Pictures from Assets” and Section 5.4, “Creating Videos from Assets”.

Figure 5.1. Picture Asset content item