Drupal Multimedia Session Proposal for DrupalCamp NYC 5

[EDIT: Session Overview here, and Drupal Multimedia Companion Site here.]

Aaron Winborn, from Advomatic, will present an overview of the multimedia options for Drupal. In this session, we'll examine best practices for handling Images, Video, and Audio on your sites. We'll cover the modules best suited to specific tasks, with some hands-on examples and site recipes.

He has just completed writing Drupal Multimedia, scheduled to be published in September. (Read the announcement at Drupal.org.) He presented a similar topic at DrupalCampNYC in the spring of 2007, although geared towards images, before writing the precursor to Embedded Media Field at another collaborative session there, which he finished during OSCON later that Spring.

Images

• Image or Image field?
• Inline images
• Scaling/cropping with Imagecache
• More

Video

• Local and external video
• Media mover
• Embedded Media Field
• File Field and jQuery Media
• More

Audio

• Audio and File Field
• Playlists
• jQuery magic
• More

Although he presented this session as part of a panel at DrupalCon Boston this spring, this time will be more focused on the current capabilities of Drupal 6 to handle multimedia (which is shaping up to be better than ever). He also attended a media code sprint in Portland, helping to create SimpleTests for the hook_file patch for multimedia handling in Drupal core.

Prerequisites:

An interest in Drupal and Multimedia. This is geared towards the beginner who wants to know what Drupal is capable of, and/or towards someone wanting to know which of the hundreds of media-handling modules is best for their needs.

Goals:

By the end of the session, we will have covered a broad overview of what's available for Drupal and Multimedia. Attendees will hopefully leave with an idea of the basic media module(s) to install.

Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, coming in September!)
AaronWinborn.com (my blog, all about Drupal)
Advomatic (my work)