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Dynamic Media Prime and Ultimate

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Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service enables you to access Dynamic Media Prime and Ultimate offerings to streamline your digital workflows and optimize content management. This article introduces each offering, outlines their benefits, and also highlights key differences between the two.

Dynamic Media Prime

Dynamic Media Prime is an activation service for Experience Manager Assets, which offers Dynamic Media with OpenAPI basic capabilities enabling organizations to integrate AEM Assets with Adobe or non-Adobe applications. It supports transformation (rotate, crop, flip, size, preferwebp, height, width, quality) and optimized delivery.

If you need Dynamic Media basic as well as advanced capabilities and access to Dynamic Media solution in AEM as a Cloud Service, see Dynamic Media Ultimate.

Some of the other key benefits of Dynamic Media Prime include:

Centralized management of digital assets
Real-time updates reflected in the delivery URLs
Brand consistency
Web-optimized image delivery
Adaptive video streaming

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Dynamic Media Ultimate

Dynamic Media Ultimate is an activation service for Experience Manager Assets, which includes Dynamic Media with OpenAPI basic and advanced capabilities as well as Dynamic Media solution in AEM as a Cloud Service. It enables organizations to generate and deliver multiple variations of rich content in real-time through its global, scalable, performance-optimized network.

In addition to the Dynamic Media Prime features such as AEM Assets integration with Adobe or non-Adobe applications, transformation (rotate, crop, flip, size, preferwebp, height, width, quality), and optimized delivery, Dynamic Media Ultimate also offers:

Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities advanced features such as:
- Secure delivery of assets,
- Smart Crop, Smart Imaging, Image Presets, and additional image modifiers.
Dynamic Media solution in AEM as a Cloud Service, which also includes the following key capabilities:

Prerequisites

For more information on the complete list of capabilities, see Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities and Working with Dynamic Media.

For information on how to enable Dynamic Media Prime and Ultimate for your AEM as a Cloud Service environment, see Enable Dynamic Media Prime and Ultimate.

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