Creating a Video Padding Workflow creating-a-video-padding-workflow
This section covers the following topics:
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Overview
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Prerequisites
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Creating a Video Padding Workflow
- Creating a Workflow
- Using the Workflow in AEM Screens Project
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Validating the Output for the Workflow
Overview overview
The following use case involves placing a video (example: 1280 x 720) in a channel where the display is 1920 x 1080 and having the video be placed at 0x0 (upper left). The video should not be stretched or modified in any way and do not use Cover in the video component.
The video is displayed as an object from pixel 1 to pixel 1280 across and from pixel 1 to pixel 720 down. The rest of the channel is the default color.
Prerequisites prerequisites
Before you create a workflow for video, complete the following prerequisites:
- Upload a video in the Assets folder in your AEM instance
- Create an AEM Screens project (for example, TestVideoRendition) and a channel named (VideoRendering), as shown in the figure below:
Creating a Video Padding Workflow creating-a-video-padding-workflow-1
To create a video padding workflow, create a workflow for your video and then use the same in your AEM Screens project channel.
Follow the steps below to create and use the workflow:
- Creating a Workflow
- Using the Workflow in an AEM Screens Project
Creating a Workflow creating-a-workflow
Follow the steps below to create a workflow for your video:
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Navigate to your AEM instance.
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Click the tools from the side rail.
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Click Workflow > Models so you can create a model.
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Click Models > Create > Create Model. Enter the Title (such as VideoRendition) and Name in the Add Workflow Model. Click Done to add the workflow model.
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After you create the workflow model, click the model (VideoRendition), and click Edit from the action bar.
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Drag and drop the
Command Linecomponent to your workflow. -
Click the
Command Linecomponent and open the properties dialog box. -
Click the Arguments tab.
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In the Command Line - Step Properties dialog box, enter the format in the Mime Types (as video/mp4) and the command as (/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg -i ${filename} -vf “pad=1920:height=1080:x=0:y=0:color=black” cq5dam.video.fullhd-hp.mp4). This command starts the workflow in the Commands field.
See the details on Mime Types and Commands in the note below.
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Click the workflow (VideoRenditions).
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Click Start Workflow from the action bar.
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In the Run Workflow dialog box, click the path of your asset in the Payload (as /content/dam/huseinpeyda-crossroads01_512kb 2.mp4) and enter the Title as RunVideo and click Run.
Using the Workflow in an AEM Screens Project using-the-workflow-in-an-aem-screens-project
Follow the steps below to use the workflow in your AEM Screens project:
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Navigate to an AEM Screens project (TestVideoRendition > Channels >VideoRendition).
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Click Edit from the action bar. Drag and drop the video that you initially uploaded to Assets.
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When you have uploaded the video, click Preview to view the output.
Validating the Output for the Workflow validating-the-output-for-the-workflow
You can validate your output by:
- Check a preview of the video in the channel
- Navigate to the /content/dam/testvideo.mp4/jcr:content/renditions/cq5dam.video.fullhd-hp.mp4 in CRXDE Lite, as shown in the figure below: