Media Management Module

Flow includes a visual media repository designed to provide you with easy, quick asset retrieval and reuse. While traditional image storage libraries exist independent of your news and broadcast systems, the Media Management module offers you a fully integrated media storage library that collects and stores all of your media in a central repository for reuse. Integrated media storage means less hardware, less support, and more reuse convenience. As you add media for content, such as graphics, Flow stores them in your own Media Gallery, and you can reuse them over and over.

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For example, when you want to display a small thumbnail image beside each story topic in a zone, as you specify graphics manually for story content, those graphics are automatically added to the Media Management module. Once the graphics have been added, you can reuse them any time in future content. As you define resource tags for story graphic assets, you can pull them directly from the integrated gallery.

You can access a view-only version of the Media Management module in Flow. From the Home page, select Flow Configuration > Media Management. Otherwise, you can contribute to your own Media Gallery repository through supported Flow modules, such as Stories.

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Add Media to Your Gallery

As you create content in Flow, some modules allow you to upload media including images, graphics, logos, or video. As you upload media, Flow automatically adds that media to its centralized repository called the Media Gallery. Your media is available any time for reuse.

In a supported Flow module, click Add Image or Add Image or Video.
Click on the Upload a File tab.
Drag-and-drop a file to the preview box to add it or navigate to a specific file and click Upload.
Click OK to add that media to the Media Gallery and your content.

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Remove Media From Your Gallery

Removing media removes it from any content which can affect your broadcast output. It is also a permanent action that cannot be undone.

Click Remove to remove the media from Flow's Media Management module. Click OK to confirm.

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Select Media From Your Gallery

Some content modules in Flow allow you to specify optional media, if desired. In addition to uploading media, you can also select from existing media or specify a MediaBeacon image.

Action	Details
Gallery Section	Click the associated Select link for the media you want to reuse. See Navigate Media below for more information on navigating your media gallery. Click here to see an example of the screen.
MediaBeacon® Selection	Drag-and-drop a MediaBeacon image to the preview box to add it, or enter a MediaBeacon image ID. Click OK. Click here to see an example of the screen.

Navigate Media

The Media Management module has a number of handy media navigation features, as follows:

Action

Details

Filter Media

You can filter available media in the media gallery by one of the following:

Name - Media Name; supports partial or full match
Extension - Media file type, such as .jpg, .png, and so on.
Width - Physical width dimension
Height - Physical height dimension
Alpha - Whether or not an alpha layer is included.
URL - MediaBeacon URL that defines how images are linked back to the parent system, when available

Sort Columns

You can sort the gallery columns. Click on a column header to sort in ascending or descending order.

Page Navigation & Size

As your gallery of media grows, items display across multiple pages.

Control the number of items per page by changing the Page Size value and clicking Change.
Move from page to page by specifying the Page value and clicking Go.

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