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The media items that wil be required to create a XFeature Film library object are as follows:

Xview Overview

Thumbnail Image ( Picon )

This is a portrait image that is used as the piture icon for the media item. The width must be 186px and the height must be 280px

Poster Image ( Feature Image )

This is the landscape image that is used on the detail page of the series media item. The width mus be 720px abd the height must 320px.

Directors Thumbnail Image

This is the image that is displayed on the Director’s link, each media item can have people associated with them.

Actors Thumbnail Images

This is the image that is displayed on the Director’s link, each media item can have people associated with them.

The information required by the Library Object is as follows:

1.) Title – This is the title of the media item,

Example:

Independance Day – Resurgence

2.) Genre – This is the Genre or Category Tab that the media item will be placed, a drop down menu will be available to select from.

Example:

Sci Fi

3.) Synopsis – This is a text description of the media item.

Example:

As the Fourth of July nears, satellite engineer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) investigates a 3,000-mile-wide mother ship that’s approaching Earth. Fortunately, 20 years earlier, nations across the world started to use recovered extraterrestrial technology to develop an immense defense program.

3.) Directors Bio ( Optional )

Example:

Roland Emmerich is a German film director of blockbuster films like The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998), Independence Day (1996) and The Patriot (2000). Before fame, he originally wanted to be a production designer, but decided to be a director, after watching the original Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977). Emmerich began his career in his native Germany. In his youth, he pursued painting and sculpting. While enrolled in the director’s program at film school in Munich, his student film Das Arche Noah Prinzip (1984) went on to open the 1984 Berlin Film Festival. The feature became a huge success and was sold to more than 20 countries. In an amazing trivia, he directed his first feature, Das Arche Noah Prinzip (1984), in 1984. He is openly gay and a campaigner for the LGBT community.

3.) Actors Bio ( Optional )

Example:

Liam Hemsworth was born on January 13, 1990, in Melbourne, Australia, and is the younger brother of actors Chris Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth. He is the son of Leonie (van Os), a teacher of English, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. He is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal grandfather), Irish, English, Scottish, and German ancestry. His uncle, by marriage, was Rod Ansell, the bushman who inspired the film Crocodile Dundee (1986).

4.) Menu – This is the Menu Item that the content type will be placed under. A drop down selection will be supplied.

Example:

menuMovies

5.) Tags – These are content tags that will be used to relate various media items to eachother. Each tag must be seperated by a comma (,).

Example:

movies, action, aliens

 

Create a New Library Object XFeature Film

From the Administration panel select New Library Object

Fill in the required fields

Fill in all the required fields.

Use the pencil icon to add items to the drop down lists.

Click on Save once you have finished.

Log the Thumbnail for the media item

From the home folder. Select the thumbnail file and log it as a picon

Fill in all the details

Log the thumbnail as Graphic Master

Set the Picon for the XFeature Film object

From the Clipboard, right click on the XFeature Film object, select Entry, and Edit Picon

Set the image from the popup window

Find the image from the popup window and double click on it to apply the picon.

The image should update in the clipboard.

Log the Video file as Video Master

From the Home folder, select the video file and log it as Default Video

Fill in all the required fields

Set the Tag as Video Master

Attach the Default Video to the XFeature Film

Open the XFeature Film and attach the Default Video to the Meta Relationships node.

Select Attach from the popup window

Log the landscape image as XFeature Graphic

From the home folder select the landscape image and log it as XFeature Graphic

Fill in all the required fields

Set the Tag as Graphic Master

Attach the XFeature Graphic to the XFeature Film node in the Entry Relationships panel

Open the XFeature Film node and navigate to the Entry Relationships.

Dray the XFeature Graphic from the Clipboard onto the XFeature Film node.

Select Attach from the popup window

Log the Directors content

From the Home folder, select the Directors image and log it as the People object.

Fill in all the required fields

Fill in all the required fields, use the pencil to add items to the drop down lists.

Set the Tag as Graphic Master

Log the Actors content

From the Home folder select the Actors image and log it as People

Fill in all the required fields

Attach the Director and Actors to the Default Video on the Entry Relationships

Open the Default Video and attach the People to the Entry Relationships

The Entry Relationships should look like this now

Edit the permissions on the XFeature Film

From the Clipboard, right click on the XFeature Film, select Entry then Edit

Add the Permissions to the XFeature Film object

Add 2 ReadOnly permissions, xview_default and xview_promo

Set the Video Background for the media item

Right click on the Default Video, select Entry, then Edit Video BG

Choose a relevant image from the popup window

Create a XFeature Container for the Adverts

Click on the Administration tab, under Data Tools, select New Library Object

Fill in the required fields

Give the container a title

Log the video file for the adverts as XFeature Advert

From the home folder select the file and log it as XFeature Advert

Fill in the required fields

Select the type of advert you would like, set the interupt time and click Save

Attach the XFeature Adverts to the XFeature Container

Open the XFeature Container, navigate to the Meta Relationships and draw the XFeature Adverts onto the container node.

Select Attach from the popup window

Attach the XFetaure Container to the XFeature Film node

Open the XFeature Film from the Clipboard and drag the XFeature Container onto the top node in the Entry Relationships

Attach the XFeature Container from the popup window

The Entry Relationships should look like this now

Check that the content is being displayed correctly on the front end

Check the Movie page

Check the People

Check the advertising is playing

Check that the video plays