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title: Dynamic Media
slug: contentandcollablab/dynamic-media
description: Explore Adobe’s resources to enhance your Dynamic Media Hands-On Lab experience, covering image/video profiles, presets, smart imaging, and optimization best practices.
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createdAt: 2023-11-06T15:57:28.863Z
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Adobe provides the following links as additional, supplemental information based on goals, use case needs, and discussions within lab sessions. This information is intended to augment the experience gained from the Customer Experience Lab curriculum.

### Fundamentals

[Dynamic Media Overview](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/dynamic-media) — What Dynamic Media is, how it integrates with AEM Assets DAM, and the single-master-asset delivery model

[Dynamic Media Architecture](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/config-dm) — How the Scene7 stack connects to AEM as a Cloud Service, including the author/CDN/image server relationship

[Dynamic Media Best Practices](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/dm-journey/dm-best-practices) — Key recommendations covering smart crop usage, viewer JavaScript inclusion, image preset strategy, and asset synchronization

[Dynamic Media with OpenAPI Capabilities Overview](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/dynamic-media-open-apis/dynamic-media-open-apis-overview) — The modern delivery layer built on approved-asset governance, delivery URLs as references, real-time propagation of asset changes, and the Micro-Frontend Asset Selector

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### Setup & Configuration

[Configure Dynamic Media Cloud Service](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/config-dm) — Connecting AEM to a Dynamic Media (Scene7) account via Tools > Cloud Services, setting region, company alias, and publish mode per environment

[Enable Dynamic Media Prime and Ultimate](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/enable-dynamic-media-prime-and-ultimate) — Provisioning a Dynamic Media company account via Cloud Manager, including status tracking and the welcome email workflow

[Configure Dynamic Media Publish Setup](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/dm-publish-settings) — Image Server security settings, token-based secure preview, and IP allowlisting for pre-publish content access

[MIME Type Configuration via CRXDE](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/config-dm) — Enabling or excluding specific file types from Dynamic Media sync by toggling `enabled` and editing `jobParam` per MIME type node

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### Image Delivery

[Image Presets](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/managing-image-presets) — Creating named URL shorthand strings that encode image server commands for size, format, color space, sharpening, and watermarking; used in components and direct URL delivery

[Image Profiles](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/image-profiles) — Folder-level processing rules for smart crop breakpoints and unsharp mask settings applied automatically on asset upload

[Smart Crop for Images](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-learn/assets/dynamic-media/images/smart-crop-feature-video-use) — Using Adobe AI to automatically detect and crop to the focal point of an image across defined responsive breakpoints; applied via Image Profiles assigned to folders

[Image Serving Command Reference](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/dynamic-media-developer-resources/image-serving-api/image-serving-api/c-is-home) — Full reference for URL-based image modifiers: cropping, color adjustment, compositing, text overlays, path-based clipping, and format conversion

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### Video Delivery

[Video Profiles](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/video-profiles) — Defining adaptive bitrate encoding ladders applied to videos on upload; output feeds into Adaptive Video Sets for HLS streaming

[Adaptive Video Sets & Streaming](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/video) — How Dynamic Media generates and delivers adaptive video via CDN-cached HLS streams with fallback to progressive delivery

[Smart Crop for Video](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-learn/assets/dynamic-media/video/dynamic-media-smart-crop-video) — Creating video crop ratio profiles and using the Smart Crop Video WCM component to deliver viewport-aware cropping driven by Adobe AI

[Video Captions & Chapter Markers](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/video) — Adding WebVTT caption files and chapter navigation markers to videos delivered through Dynamic Media viewers

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### Asset Types & Sets

[Image Sets](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/image-sets) — Multi-image collections that render in a zoom viewer with alternate view swatching; useful for product color and style variants

[Spin Sets](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/spin-sets) — Sequenced product photo arrays that simulate 360-degree rotation in a spin viewer

[Mixed Media Sets](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/mixed-media-sets) — Combined asset collections containing images, spin sets, and video within a single interactive viewer experience

[Carousel Banners](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/carousel-banners) — Rotating image banners with interactive hotspots and image maps that link to product detail pages or quick-view modals

[Interactive Images & Video](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/interactive-images) — Shoppable images and videos with clickable hotspots that can trigger quick-view or external URL navigation

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### Viewers

[Viewer Presets Overview](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-65/content/assets/dynamic/managing-viewer-presets) — Creating, activating, and managing viewer configurations for zoom, spin, video, carousel, panoramic, and mixed media; includes CSS-based customization and embedding guidelines

[Viewers Reference Guide](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/dynamic-media-developer-resources/library/viewers-for-aem-assets-only/c-html5-aem-asset-viewers) — Developer-level documentation for each HTML5 viewer: constructor parameters, CSS markers, JavaScript API, and embed code patterns

[Dynamic Media Best Practices: Viewer JavaScript Inclusion](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/dm-journey/dm-best-practices) — Why only the primary viewer JS file should be referenced on a page, and how to avoid runtime breakage from direct SDK library linking

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### AEM Sites Integration

[Adding Dynamic Media to Pages](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/adding-dynamic-media-assets-to-pages) — Using the Dynamic Media, Interactive Media, Panoramic Media, and Video 360 WCM components; enabling dynamic media features in template policies

[Dynamic Media with Core Components](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-learn/assets/dynamic-media/dm-with-aem-sites/dynamic-media-core-components) — Enabling dynamic media features on the Core Image component, exposing image preset and smart crop options in the component dialog

[Dynamic Media with OpenAPI: Asset Selector](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/dynamic-media-open-apis/dynamic-media-open-apis-overview) — Embedding the Micro-Frontend Asset Selector in React, Angular, or Vanilla JS applications to surface DAM-approved assets with delivery URL references

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### OpenAPI & Headless Delivery

[Search & Delivery APIs](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/dynamic-media-open-apis/dynamic-media-open-apis-overview) — Programmatic asset search and delivery URL generation for third-party and custom application integrations

[Approving Assets for OpenAPI Delivery](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/dynamic-media-open-apis/approve-assets) — Setting `dam:status=Approved` on assets to make them available via delivery URLs; configuring DAM admin and brand manager roles for access governance

[Dynamic Media OpenAPI: FAQ](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/assets/dynamicmedia/dynamic-media-open-apis/dynamic-media-open-apis-faqs) — Answers on enabling the feature, IMS client ID setup, content package exclusions, and supported asset types