converting/resizing/encoding on insertion task?

is it possible to transform an image from RGB to CMYK color, resize it, then bring in as a tif during an insertion task?

pretty much our business people want to add a jpeg, assign some metadata, and have it automagically converted to tiff and resized on insertion.

i created a task to add metadata just fine, but when i add "color converter" "image size" and "tiff encoder" tasks they dont work on insertion tasks. they do work on retrieval tasks. please advise, thanks!

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msrinivas

Hmm......looks like you have the idea of asset re-purposing backwards. Basic image math is you take a high quality image and reduce it to a lesser one. You are trying to do the other way around. You wont have the desired results.

Migrateduser

ok lets just say then i want to change an image from RGB to CMYK only on insertion (along w/ adding my metdata) - when i add the color converter task either at the beginning or end it doesnt work?

Hmm......looks like you have the idea of asset re-purposing backwards. Basic image math is you take a high quality image and reduce it to a lesser one. You are trying to do the other way around. You wont have the desired results.

lyman

MediaBin attempts to preserve incoming images in the form they were input. Insertion tasks only affect the preview or the metadata by adding watermarks or adding/removing metadata. Of course any metadata edits made this way will only be reflected when an asset is retrieved using the (None) task which performs a reconciliation of the metadata in the database and the metadata in the image. The task (Get Original) still does what the name implies!

However, what you described can be accomplished via linked Hot Folders one which transforms the image and a second which inserts it. But I would try to elaborate a bit more on the use cases as this is likely not going to produce the best quality especially if you want to get a jpeg out again since converting out of JPEG and to CMYk and then back would be far from lossless.

Cheers,

Lyman Hurd