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Q: What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?Amazon Elastic Transcoder is a highly scalable, easy to use and cost effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) video and audio files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.Q: What can I do with Amazon Elastic Transcoder?You can use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to convert video and audio files into supported output formats optimized for playback on desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and televisions. In addition to supporting a wide range of input and output formats, resolutions, bitrates, and frame rates, Amazon Elastic Transcoder also offers features for automatic video bit rate optimization, generation of thumbnails, overlay of visual watermarks, caption support, DRM packaging, progressive downloads, encryption and more. For more details, please visit the page. Q: Why should I use Amazon Elastic Transcoder?Amazon Elastic Transcoder manages all the complexity of running media transcoding in the AWS cloud. Amazon Elastic Transcoder enables you to focus on your content, such as the devices you want to support and the quality levels you want to provide, rather than managing the infrastructure and software needed for conversion. Amazon Elastic Transcoder scales to handle the largest encoding jobs.
As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources that you use. We offer a free tier that enables you to explore the service and transcode up to up to 20 minutes of SD video or 10 minutes of HD video a month free of charge. To see terms and additional information on the free tier program, please visit the.Q: How do I get started with Amazon Elastic Transcoder?You can sign up for Amazon Elastic Transcoder through the. You can then use the console to create a pipeline, set up an IAM role, and create your first transcoding job.
To help you test Amazon Elastic Transcoder, the first 20 minutes of SD content (or 10 minutes of HD content) transcoded each month is provided free of charge. Once you exceed the number of minutes in this free usage tier, you will be charged at the prevailing rates. We do not watermark the output content or otherwise limit the functionality of the service, so you can use it and truly get a feel for its capabilities. To see terms and additional information on the free tier program, please visit the.
If you do not have an AWS account, you can create one by clicking the Sign Up button at the top of this page.Q: How do I use Amazon Elastic Transcoder?To use Amazon Elastic Transcoder you need to have at least one media file in an Amazon S3 bucket. The easiest way to use Amazon Elastic Transcoder is to try it through the console. Create a transcoding pipeline that connects the input Amazon S3 bucket to the output Amazon S3 bucket. Create a transcoding job that will transcode your media file, choose a transcoding preset (a template), and submit the job. Your transcoded file will appear in your output bucket once it has been processed.Q: What tools and libraries work with Amazon Elastic Transcoder?Amazon Elastic Transcoder uses a JSON API, and we provide SDKs for Python, Node.js, Java,.NET, PHP, and Ruby. The new also supports Amazon Elastic Transcoder. You can see a full list of our SDKs.Q: Can I use the AWS Management Console with Amazon Elastic Transcoder?Yes.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder has a console that is accessed through the AWS Management Console. You can use our console to create pipelines, jobs, and presets as well as manage and view existing pipelines and jobs.Q: How do I get my media files into Amazon S3?There are many ways to get content into Amazon S3, from the simple web-based uploader in the to programmatic approaches through APIs. For very large files, you may wish to use, or file-acceleration solutions available in the. For more information please refer to the and the website.Q: How do I retrieve my media files from Amazon S3?You can retrieve files from Amazon S3 programmatically, using the AWS Management Console or a third party tool. You can also mark Amazon S3 objects as public and download them directly from Amazon S3.Q: Can I use a Content Distribution Network (CDN) to distribute my media files?Yes.
You can easily use CDNs to distribute your content; for example, you can use Amazon CloudFront to distribute your content to end-users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. You can use an output bucket that contains your transcoded content in Amazon S3 as the origin server for Amazon CloudFront. For more information, please visit the detail page for.Q: How long does it take to transcode a job?Jobs start processing in the order in which they are received in a pipeline. Once a job is ready to be transcoded, many variables affect the speed of transcoding, for example, the input file size, resolution, and bitrate.
For example, if you were to submit a 10 minute video using the iPhone 4 preset, it would take approximately 5 minutes. If a large number of jobs are received they are backlogged (queued). Please note that the transcoding speed may be different between regions.Q: When will my job be ready?You can use Amazon SNS notifications to be informed of job status changes. For example, you can be notified when your job starts to transcode and when it has finished transcoding. For more information on Amazon SNS notifications, please see the detail page on.Q: How many jobs are processed at once?Pipelines operate independently from one another. Each pipeline processes jobs in parallel up to a default limit set for that pipeline. Within a job, each individual output also progresses in parallel.
For more information on limits and capacity, visit the in the Elastic Transcoder Developer Guide. You can request higher limits by opening a.Q: How many jobs can I submit?Currently, we allow a maximum of 100,000 jobs per pipeline. Once you exceed this limit, you will receive a 429 Rate Limit Exception.
If you require this limit to be raised, please contact us.Q: Can I create multiple outputs per job?Each transcoding job relates to a single input file and can create one or more output files. For example, you may wish to create audio only, low- and high-resolution renditions of the same input file and could do so as part of a single transcoding job. The number of outputs per job is limited. For more information on Amazon Elastic Transcoder limits, please refer to the documentation.Multiple outputs are charged individually: each output is charged as a separate transcode.Q: How do I generate clips?You can create a clip from your source media in your transcoding job.
You specify a start time and a duration (both specified as HH:mm:ss.SSS or sssss.SSS.) To cut off the start of a file, you would just specify a start time. You can generate different length clips (or transcode the entire file) for each different output in your transcoding job. You will be charged based on the output duration of your transcode, so if you have a five-minute input file and you create a one-minute output from it, you will only be charged for one minute of transcoding. Please remember that fractional minutes are rounded up, so if you create a clip that is one minute and thirty seconds in duration, you will be charged for two minutes of transcoding.Q: How do I stitch clips?You can specify two or more input files that need to be stitched to create a single output file in your transcoding job.
Input files are stitched in the order they are specified. So if you want to add a bumper to your video, specify the bumper file as the first input and your video file as the second input.
For each input, you can specify a Start Time and a Duration, which allows you to stitch together only the parts of each input that you want included in the output. You will be charged for the output duration of your transcode, so if you are stitching two five-minute input files to create a ten-minute output, you will be charged for ten minutes of transcoding.Q: What is a transcoding pipeline, what can I use it for, and how many can I have?A pipeline is a queue-like structure that manages your transcoding jobs. A pipeline can process multiple jobs simultaneously, and generally starts to process jobs in the order in which you added them to the pipeline. Jobs often finish in a different order based on job specifications. It is up to you how you wish to use pipelines.
Some examples include submitting jobs to different pipelines based on the priority or the duration of a transcode, or using different pipelines for your development, test and production environments. The number of pipelines per AWS account is limited. For more information on Amazon Elastic Transcoder limits, please refer to the.Q: What are transcoding presets?A preset is a template that contains the settings that you want Amazon Elastic Transcoder to apply during the transcoding process, for example, the codec and the resolution that you want in the transcoded file.
When you create a job, you specify which preset you want to use. We provide presets that create media files that play on any device and presets that target specific devices. For maximum compatibility, choose a “breadth preset” that creates output that plays on a wide range of devices. For optimum quality and file size, choose an “optimized preset” that creates output for a specific device or class of devices.Q: What do I do if none of your transcoding presets work for me?You can create your own custom presets based on an existing preset. Once you create your own custom preset, it is available across your AWS account for the Amazon Elastic Transcoder service within a specific region. For more information on presets, please refer to the.
The number of pipelines per AWS account is limited. For more information on Amazon Elastic Transcoder limits, please refer to the.Q: Why do I need to assign a role to a transcoding pipeline?Amazon Elastic Transcoder uses AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to enable you to securely control access to your media assets.
The IAM role sets a policy that defines what permissions you have for accessing Amazon S3 resources. You can assign different roles to different pipelines, and an IAM administrator can create specific roles for use with Amazon Elastic Transcoder. More information about IAM can be found.Q: How can I configure roles to be more restrictive?You can use the AWS Management Console to edit and create new IAM roles. IAM roles that are created by Amazon Elastic Transcoder are visible in the AWS Management Console and can also be edited.Q: How do I use notifications?Amazon Elastic Transcoder uses Amazon SNS to notify you of specific events.
You can choose to be notified about jobs that start to process, jobs that complete, warnings, and errors. Each event type is assigned to an SNS topic, and you can use the same topic or different topics for each event. The Amazon Elastic Transcoder console will create an SNS topic for you or you can specify an existing one.Q: Why should I use notifications?Notifications are a much more efficient way to check transcoding status than polling the API. Notifications provide a way to be notified on specific events that occur in the system.
For example, you can be notified on a completed event. This is useful if you want to know when a job has finished transcoding and this is far more efficient than calling the 'List Jobs By Status' or 'Read Job' API at regular intervals.Q: Why does my job keep failing?The most common reason for jobs to fail is that the input file is corrupted in some way.
If you receive an error about the format not being supported, we are unable to decode your source file and we’d love for you to tell us more about on our. We need the following information to assist with diagnosis: AWS Account ID, Region and Job ID. For a list of error codes, please refer to the.Q: How can I generate more than one thumbnail per job?You can specify a thumbnail creation interval in seconds to create one thumbnail every n seconds. To create thumbnails in more than one size, you need to create different jobs.Q: Can I reserve a transcoder for my exclusive use?Amazon Elastic Transcoder provides a shared transcoding service and does not enable a transcoder to be reserved or allocated to an individual customer.Q: Do I need to pay license fees?We have licensed relevant intellectual property from the applicable patent pools for transcoding content.
Like any other transcoder, customers are responsible for evaluating and, if necessary, securing licenses for distribution of content in various formats.Q: Do you support live encoding?Amazon Elastic Transcoder is a file-based transcoding service and does not support live transcoding.Q: Are there limits to the service?The number of transcoding pipelines, transcoding presets and outputs per job have limits. Most of these limits can be adjusted on a customer-by-customer basis.
For the current limits, please refer to the.Q: How do I increase service limits?If you require an increase in the service limits, please contact us and provide all the information requested on the form. We will then contact you to discuss your requirements.Q: Where is Amazon Elastic Transcoder available?Amazon Elastic Transcoder is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai).The service operates standalone in each region, so jobs created in one region may not be transferred to another region.You can create a transcoding pipeline in one region that would specify Amazon S3 buckets in another region. However, if you choose to do this, you should be aware that you will incur Amazon S3 transfer costs when content is read from or written out to an Amazon S3 bucket in a region other than the one where the transcoding work is taking place.Q: Can I pass metadata when creating a job?You have the option to attach up to 10 custom metadata key-value pairs to your Elastic Transcoder jobs.
This metadata will be included in the job notifications and when reading the job via the API or console. You provide this information in the “UserMetadata” field on the Job object. Q: What input formats do you support?We support popular web, consumer and professional media formats. Examples include 3GP, AAC, AVI, FLV, MP4 and MPEG-2. If there is a format that you’ve found does not work, please let us know through our forum.Q: Where can I find a comprehensive list of support formats?We add new input formats on an ongoing basis, so such a list would age quickly. Q: How much does Amazon Elastic Transcoder cost to use?Pricing for Amazon Elastic Transcoder is described here.
Our pricing does not require any commitment or minimum volume of jobs. We also offer a free tier that enables you to explore the service and transcode up to up to 20 minutes of audio-only output, 20 minutes of SD video output and 10 minutes of HD video output a month free of charge. To see terms and additional information on the free tier program, please visit the AWS Free Usage Tier page.Q: How are jobs charged?Transcoding jobs are charged according to the duration of the content. For example, media that lasts 60 minutes costs twice as much as media that lasts 30 minutes. High definition (HD) content costs twice as much as standard definition (SD). Audio-only output is priced lower than standard definition (SD) output. The minimum charge for a job is one minute.
We do not charge for thumbnail generation, for API calls, or for Amazon S3 transfer within the same region. For more information, please refer to the Amazon Elastic Transcoder.Q: How are fractional minutes charged?Fractional minutes are rounded up. For example, if your output duration is less than a minute, you are charged for one minute.
If your output duration is 1 minutes and 10 seconds, you are charged for 2 minutes.Q: Do you charge for failed jobs?Our policy is to forgive customers for failed jobs unless the number of failed jobs becomes excessive.Q: Is it cheaper to use multiple outputs per job than to use separate jobs?When you use multiple outputs per job, transcoding costs remain the same as if you had submitted multiple jobs for each output. However, the processing time will be quicker for larger jobs since the source file is only being transferred from your S3 bucket to Amazon Elastic Transcoder once.Q: Do your prices include taxes?Except as otherwise noted, our prices are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, including VAT and applicable sales tax. For customers with a Japanese billing address, use of AWS services is subject to Japanese Consumption Tax. Q: Are my media assets secure?You are in complete control of your media assets because they are stored in your own Amazon S3 buckets. You use IAM roles to grant us access to your specific Amazon S3 bucket.Q: Can I set S3 permissions and storage options?Amazon Elastic Transcoder enables you to specify which users, groups, and canonical IDs you want to grant access to your transcoded files, thumbnails and playlists, as well as the type of access that you want them to have. You can also specify whether to store transcoded content using Standard or Reduced Redundancy Storage.
Please refer to for further information.Q: Can I use encrypted input media files or encrypt my output files?Yes. You can use encrypted mezzanine files as input to Amazon Elastic Transcoder, or protect your transcoded files by letting the service encrypt the output. Supported options range from fully managed integration with, to keys that you manage on your own and protect using.
Furthermore, encryption support is not limited to your video files. You can protect thumbnails, captions, and even watermarks.Q: Do you support DRM?Yes, we support packaging for Microsoft PlayReady DRM. Our Smooth Streaming packaging is compatible with the Microsoft PIFF 1.1, and our HLSv3 packaging is compatible with the Discretix 3.0.1 specification for Microsoft PlayReady.Q: Can I get a history of all Amazon Elastic Transcoder API calls made on my account for security, operational or compliance auditing?Yes. To start receiving a history of all Elastic Transcoder API calls made on your account, you simply turn on AWS CloudTrail in. For more information, visit the.Q: Do I need to setup AWS KMS before using the Elastic Transcoder encryption and DRM packaging features?Yes. You must first create a master AWS KMS key and add the role used by Elastic Transcoder as an authorized user of that key. Elastic Transcoder uses your KMS master key to protect the data encryption keys that it exchanges with you.Q: Can I save the keys used to encrypt my HLS streams to S3?Yes.
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If you elect to store your keys in S3, Elastic Transcoder will write your keys to the same folders as your playlist files, and your keys will be protected using Server-Side Encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Encryption Keys.Q: Can I rotate the keys used for HLS with AES-128 encryption?Key rotation is not supported. All renditions and file segments share the same key.
Traditionally, transcoding has been complex for customers in three significant ways. First, customers need to buy and manage transcoding software, which can be expensive and challenging to maintain and configure. Second, producing transcoded output for different kinds of devices often involves trial and error to find the right transcoding setting that play properly and look good to the end user. This trial and error process wastes compute resources. Third, traditional encoding solutions don’t scale up and down with customers’ business needs. Instead, with traditional solutions, customers need to guess how much capacity to provision ahead of time, which inevitably means either wasted money (if they provision too much and leave capacity underutilized) or delay to their business (if they provision too little and need to wait to run their encoding jobs). With Amazon Elastic Transcoder, developers simply use the web-based console, service API or SDKs to create a transcoding job that specifies an input file, the transcoding settings, and output files.
This eliminates these three complexities: First, there is no need to buy, configure or manage underlying transcoding software. Second, Amazon Elastic Transcoder has pre-defined presets for various devices that remove the need to find the right settings for different devices through trial and error. The system also supports custom presets, which let customers tune output to specific transcode requirements such as a unique size or bit rate needs. Finally, Amazon Elastic Transcoder automatically scales up and down to handle customers’ workloads, eliminating wasted capacity and minimizing time spent waiting for jobs to complete.
It also enables customers to process multiple files in parallel and organize their transcoding workflow using a feature called transcoding pipelines. With Amazon Elastic Transcoder’s pipelines feature, customers set up pipelines for these various scenarios and ensure that their files are transcoded when and how they want, thus allowing them to seamlessly scale for spiky workloads efficiently. For example, a news organization may want to have a “high priority” transcoding pipeline for breaking news stories, or a User-Generated Content website may want to have separate pipelines for low, medium, and high resolution outputs to target different devices.Amazon Elastic Transcoder is built using the scalability and flexibility of other Amazon Web Services. It runs your transcoding jobs using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Amazon EC2’s scale allows you to complete large transcoding jobs quickly and reliably. Amazon Elastic Transcoder is built to work with content you store in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), so you have durable and cost effective storage for huge libraries, or small ones. Amazon Elastic Transcoder offers the following features to make video transcoding easy, scalable and inexpensive.
Transcoding pipelines: Transcoding pipelines allow you to setup and run transcoding workflows in parallel. You can use transcoding pipelines as a means to create flexible workflows. For example, you could set up a pipeline for transcoding short content and another for transcoding long content, or you could assign different pipelines for different resolutions or storage locations. Transcoding jobs: Transcoding jobs do the work of transcoding a media file from one format into others. You can use one job to create multiple output files of different bit rates and formats from a single input file. For example, one job could create renditions consisting of different resolutions and bit rates of the same input file.
You can also create an audio-only alternate stream, which is frequently used when creating an HLS or MPEG-DASH file set. When you create a job, you specify the information that Amazon Elastic Transcoder needs to perform the transcoding: which file to transcode, what to name the transcoded output files and which presets to use. Transcoding jobs run inside a transcoding pipeline, and transcoding pipelines run more than one job at a time, so you can have many jobs running at once within your AWS account. System transcoding presets: Amazon Elastic Transcoder provides a set of transcoding presets that removes the guesswork out of figuring out the right transcoding settings for different devices. You can choose from presets that will create output that plays on any device, or from presets that target specific devices.
For maximum compatibility, choose a “breadth preset” that will create output that plays on a wide range of devices. For optimum quality and file size, choose an “optimized preset” that will create output for a specific device or class of devices. Custom transcoding presets: The transcoding presets that we supply cater to most devices and platforms, but some customers may need to create specific presets for a particular output target. Using custom presets, you can customize an existing transcoding preset and use it across all your pipelines in your AWS account within a region.
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Automatic video bit rate optimization: With the auto video bit rate setting, Amazon Elastic Transcoder will automatically adjust the bit rate in order to optimize the visual quality of your transcoded output. You can limit the instantaneous bit rate in your output video using the maximum bit rate parameter. This is useful when you need to generate an output file with a limited or capped maximum bit rate, which may be required to meet the playback specifications for certain devices. The result is that you get video files that look great but have better compression than if you had selected a single bit rate for the entire file. Monitoring and Management: You can view the status of your transcoding pipelines and jobs through the AWS Management Console or the Amazon Elastic Transcoder service API or SDKs. You can also monitor, alarm and receive notifications on the operational performance and usage of Amazon Elastic Transcoder using Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon Elastic Transcoder automatically publishes nine operational metrics into Amazon CloudWatch, giving you more visibility into the overall health of your transcoding workflow and the ability to invoke an action if the metric you are tracking crosses a certain threshold for a defined period of time.
You can monitor metrics such as jobs completed, jobs that errored out, output minutes generated, standby time, and errors and throttles on various API calls. These metrics appear in CloudWatch within a few minutes of the transcoding job being executed on Elastic Transcoder. Notifications: Amazon Elastic Transcoder uses Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to notify you about transcoding events. You can be notified when your transcoding job starts, when it completes, if there is a warning, and if there is an error condition. Using notifications is an efficient way to monitor and manage your transcoding workload. You just rely on Amazon Elastic Transcoder to notify you of a change, which removes the need for you to poll the service for status. Thumbnails: Amazon Elastic Transcoder can generate thumbnails of your output video for you.
You can set the size of the thumbnails, aspect ratio and other parameters including how many thumbnails you would like to have generated. Generating multiple thumbnails is useful if you want to add chapter markers, provide a visual scan function or simply choose the most representative thumbnail for your content. Visual Watermarks: Amazon Elastic Transcoder can overlay up to four still images on your output video.
To watermark your output videos, simply provide a file containing a PNG or JPG image and use a transcoding preset to specify position, scale, sizing, and opacity information for the watermark. You can use this feature to add program or other identification logos to your output. Captions: Amazon Elastic Transcoder supports captions.
Captioning is the process of displaying text that accompanies the video to transcribe the audio portion of the program or translate the audio into a different language. Adaptive streaming offers better user experience by adjusting to network conditions and CPU utilization, automatically switching to higher or lower quality streams. Amazon Elastic Transcoder can create a set of segmented output renditions at different resolutions and bit rates, and a corresponding playlist or manifest file, all stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Elastic Transcoder supports the following implementations:. HTTP Live Streaming (HLS): You can use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to create a complete set of outputs compatible with either version 3 or version 4 of the HLS protocol. HLS is commonly used to reach iOS devices, Android devices, set-top boxes and browser-based players. You can then use Amazon S3 alone or in conjunction with Amazon CloudFront to deliver your media files.
Smooth Streaming: You can use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to create a set of fragmented MP4 outputs at different resolutions and bit rates, and corresponding ISM and ISMC manifest files. You can then use Amazon CloudFront or an IIS server to deliver your media files to players that implement Smooth Streaming such as Xbox, Windows Phone and clients utilizing Microsoft Silverlight players. MPEG-DASH: You can use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to create a set of video-only outputs at different resolutions and bit rates, the audio-only output, and the corresponding MPD manifest file.
You can then use Amazon S3 directly or in conjunction with Amazon CloudFront to deliver MPEG-DASH streams.