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An overview of all formats can be seen in on the system administration page in the Media Manager. If a format is mapped to an old media format, this can be seen in the “Mapped media formats” parameter when viewing the details of a format.
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All changes to the old media format are ignored.
Qualities are no longer generated based on profiles. Thus, if qualities of the old media format were previously being generated when an asset was published to a specific channel folder, this is no longer the case. Pre-generation can be set up for the new format. However, please carefully consider if this is necessary now that the transcode system supports on-demand transcoding.
Existing qualities are not re-generated. Thus, the existing qualities will be used when requesting qualities of existing assets in the new format. This is also the case if generating the quality with the new format definition would lead to a different quality than the existing quality. As described in https://digizuite.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DD/pages/3708157997/DC+5.10+Breaking+changes+-+Transcode+system#New-thumbnail-formats, it is possible to use the “Generate asset renditions” automation step to force existing qualities to be re-generated.
For new assets, the new transcode system and the new format is are used to generate qualities. This is also the case if a quality of the old media format is requested.
Qualities of the format can still be requested with the id ID of the old media format. This is mainly relevant for backward - compatibility reasons.
Configuration Management
All new formats that have been created as part of the automatic format migration, as described above, will appear as delete actions when diffing in configuration management. Furthermore, all member groups that had one of these old formats configured as a download quality will have an update action, updating the download qualities to the corresponding new formats.
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Although not strictly necessary, the introduction of the new transcode system provides a good basis for revisiting the formats that are defined for existing customers. Maybe some of the old media formats are no longer needed. Maybe some of the automatically mapped formats can be mapped better manually, for instance, utilizing the support for webp and transparency.
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