On May 29, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Joshua Portway wrote:
Hi Ruben / Boris,
Yes - We do things in a similar way to Ruben - editors upload hi-res
versions of images, which are stored in the repository - when the
image is displayed in a paragraph generates a url which specifies
the resolution / encoding required and a servlet resizes/crops/re-
encodes/caches the image on demand and serves the actual data to the
client. Unfortunately, storing originals in the repository and re-
encoding on demand isn't really practical for movies, and so we have
a different system - movie files get uploaded to S3 and then the S3
URL gets pasted into a "quicktime movie" paragraph on a page. It
works, but it's a hassle for users - they have to upload the movie
separately from their normal magnolia editing, copy and paste the
URL, and then - because the paragraph doesn't know the content of
the URL - they have to hand edit the resolution and specifications
of the movie etc. etc.
LOL (or sorrow depending on your POV).
A plugable backend file system for the DMS would allow media to be
uploaded and managed from within magnolia. Abstracting the DMS file
system would surely be useful for all sorts of other purposes too.
RC is being built while we speak ;-)
Expect 4.1 early next week. It has the feature I described and we'll
focus on docs once the 4.1 final is out.
Boris - OnAir sounds really great, but unfortunately I wouldn't have
the budget to afford it, and the editing features wouldn't really be
required - all of the content being uploaded will generally have
been edited in Final Cut anyway, and in our situation there isn't
really much need for simple trimming of content after that.
On Air is indeed quite amazing... and the usability and workflow/
process aspects are one aspect you mention where it shines compared to
your description above ;-)
If you could point me in the right direction to creating a pluggable
backend for the DMS then I'd definitely consider writing that and
making it available.
I guess you know how to work the code, so why not check out the latest
trunk and dive right in?
As I said, I'd love to see alternatives for the Magnolia DMS as an
asset store.
PS: Join the conference! Propose a talk! http://www.magnolia-cms.com/conference
Regards
- Boris
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