Uploading and Adding Multimedia

Tridion allows you to add image, video, and audio files to your site through utilizing various components and templates.

This section of instructions will explain how to add both single multimedia files and galleries to your site.

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Uploading Multimedia Content to Tridion

Prior to being used on a Tridion site, all kinds of multimedia must be made available in the system. Depending on the type of multimedia you're uploading (photo, video, etc.) the steps differ. Below are basic instructions for uploading images and documents.

Uploading Images

Prior to adding images to pages, you must first upload the image into Tridion as a component itself.

Uploading Documents

Word, Excel, and PDF documents, just to name a few, are considered multimedia in Tridion. Prior to adding documents to pages, you must first upload the document into Tridion as a component itself.

Adding Multimedia to a Page

After uploading your multimedia content, the next step is to insert the content onto a page using particular templates. Visit each section below to learn how to publish multimedia content on your page.

Images & Image Galleries

There are many ways you can add an Image to a page in Tridion, including home page banner images, wide images, standard images next to paragraphs, and galleries.

Documents

A Document is not added onto a page by using any specific template like other multimedia components. Rather, text is hyperlinked to a Document Component, which allows for the user to download the document from your site once published.

Videos

Only videos from the YSM Media Library, YouTube, or Vimeo can be featured on your page(s) in Tridion.

Audio Players

If you have a single audio file you'd like to feature on your site, you have the option of inserting a file from the Media Library tool.

Podcasts

You can use Tridion to create a Podcast for display on your site and add a Podcast channel in Apple iTunes.