Amazon Elastic Transcoder is a managed video transcoding service that allows users to easily convert media files into formats that can play on smartphones, tablets, PCs and other devices. It integrates with AWS S3 for storage and CloudFront for delivery. The summary describes the basic workflow of setting up pipelines and jobs to transcode media files stored in S3 into multiple output formats and resolutions in parallel. Pricing is based on the number and type of output files generated with no minimum usage fees.

1. Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Jim Carrig / Tom Witman
AWS Edge Services
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2. Amazon Elastic Transcoder: Overview
• Managed VOD Transcoding Service built on
Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
– No software to buy or manage
– No need to manage capacity
– Seamless integration with AWS S3 and Amazon CloudFront CDN
• Transcode Content for Any Device
– Select from over 40 transcode presets
– Define up to 50 presets per AWS Account!
• Process jobs in parallel and on demand

3. Amazon Elastic Transcoder: Why Customers Prefer Us
• Self-Service Control
• Un-Matched On Demand Capacity
• Industry Leading Reliability
• Lowest Cost Transcoding Service
• Highly Secure
• Global Availability
• Rapidly Releasing New Features

4. Elastic Transcoder: Capacity
• High Capacity – utilizing the scale of EC2
– 4 pipelines x 20 jobs x 30 outputs - ALL IN PARALLEL
– Most jobs start in < 1 second
• Low queue times, fast transcoding times

5. Amazon Elastic Transcoder: Rapid Improvements
4/2/15 - PlayReady for Smooth, PlayReady for HLS
3/24/15 - Faster Transcoding, Job Timing Info, Input Metadata, …
3/17/15 - NTSC & PAL, Animated GIF, FLV, Color Space Conversions
1/13/15 - HLS Content Protection
12/10/14 - Job Tagging for CMS and Workflow Optimization
11/24/14 - Encryption at Rest
10/27/14 - CloudTrail Integration
10/13/14 - HLS v4
10/1/14 - Smooth Streaming
6/20/14 - Captions (mov-text, DXFP, SCC, SRT, WebVTT, TTML, SMPTE-TT)
5/22/14 - Parallel Outputs, and File Transfers
Since NAB 2014…

6. Input Formats: Input Video Codecs
Apple
Intermediate
Codec
BMP (Bitmap) Cinepak
DV (Digital
Video)
Flash Screen
Video v1
FLV Fraps Go2Meeting
GIF (Graphics
Interchange
Format)
H.263 / H.263-
1996, H.263+ /
H.263-1998 /
H.263 version 2
H.264 / AVC /
MPEG-4 AVC /
MPEG-4 part 10
Intel Indeo 3
Intel Indeo Video
Interactive 4
Intel Indeo Video
Interactive 5
Motion JPEG MPEG-1 video MPEG-2 video MPEG-4 part 2
MPEG-4 part 2
Microsoft variant
MPEG-4 part 2
Microsoft variant
version 1
MPEG-4 part 2
Microsoft variant
version 2
Microsoft RLE MS Screen 1
MS Windows
Media Video V9
Screen
Microsoft Video
1
MS Expression
Encoder Screen
PNG (Portable
Network
Graphics) image
QuickTime
Animation (RLE)
video
Raw Video
QuickTime video
(RPZA)
RealVideo 2.0 RealVideo 3.0
Sorenson Vector
Quantizer 1 /
Sorenson Video
1 / SVQ1
Sorenson Vector
Quantizer 3 /
Sorenson Video
3 / SVQ3
Theora TIFF image
TechSmith
Screen Codec 2
SMPTE VC-1
Windows Media
Video 9 Image
v2
On2 VP6 (Flash
version, with
alpha channel)
On2 VP6 (Flash
version)
On2 VP8)
Windows Media
Video 7
Windows Media
Video 8
Windows Media
Video 9
Windows Media
Video 9 Image
Winnov WNV1

7. Input Formats: Input Video Formats
ASF (Advanced
/ Active
Streaming
Format)
AVI (Audio
Video
Interleaved)
DV (Digital
Video)
FLV (Flash
Video)
GIF Animation
Raw H.264
video
Matroska /
WebM
QuickTime /
MOV
MPEG-1
Systems /
MPEG program
stream
MPEG-TS
(MPEG-2
Transport
Stream)
Raw MPEG
video
MXF (Material
eXchange
Format)
Ogg RealMedia
SWF
(ShockWave
Flash)
WAV / WAVE
(Waveform
Audio)

8. Output Formats: Video Formats
HLS v3/v4
(M2TS container, H.264
video, AAC or MP3
audio)
Smooth
Streaming
(MP4 container, H.264
video, AAC Audio)
MP4
(w/ AAC
Audio)
WebM
(with VP8 video and
Vorbis audio)
NTSC &
PAL
MP3
(w/ MP3
Audio)
Animated
GIF
FLV
(with H.264 video and
AAC or MP3 audio)
OGG
(with Vorbis audio)

9. Elastic Transcoder: Security
✔Encryption at Rest
✔PlayReady for Smooth
✔PlayReady for HLS
✔HLS Content Protection
✔S3 Bucket Permissions
✔KMS Exchange
✔IAM Controls
✔CloudTrail Audit Metrics
Protection Modes Secure AWS Integrations

10. Elastic Transcoder: Really Simple Pricing
✔Free tier
✔No minimums
✔Forgiveness for failed jobs
Priced per output (no minimum)
Content Type
US East 1
(N. Virginia)
US West 2
(Oregon)
US West 1
(N. California)
EU West 1
(Ireland)
Asia Pacific 1
(Singapore)
Asia Pacific 2
(Japan)
Audio/minute $0.00 $0.00 $0.01 $0.01 $0.01 $0.01
SD/minute $0.02 $0.02 $0.02 $0.02 $0.02 $0.02
HD/minute $0.03 $0.03 $0.03 $0.03 $0.03 $0.04
4K/minute $0.03 $0.03 $0.03 $0.03 $0.03 $0.04
✔No uplift for capacity
✔Volume discounts

11. Powerful Media Transcoding: How It Works
• Presets
– Copy and customize system presets
– Define: Container, audio and/or video, Codec, bit rate, resolution, sizing policies
• Pipelines
– Queue-like structure for jobs that applies common configuration and applies simple
prioritization
– Define: Input/output bucket, Access rights to output, Notifications (SNS)
• Jobs
– 1 input -> up to 30 outputs
– Define: Video outputs, Playlists, Clip, Captions, Thumbnails, Watermarks
• Notifications
– Amazon SNS topic updated when job status changes
• Clients
– Console, SDK (Java, JavaScript, .Net, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby)

12. Elastic Transcoder: How It Works
Pipeline 1 Pipeline 2
Input Bucket 1 Input Bucket 2
Output BucketPipelines, jobs, & outputs
ALL run in parallel
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Job N (Progressing)
Job N+1 (Complete)
Job N+2 (Progressing)
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Job M (Progressing)
Job M+1 (Progressing)
Job N+3 (Progressing)
Job N+4 (Submitted)
SNS Topic

13. Elastic Transcoder: How It Works
• Queued jobs: 100,000 per pipeline
• Outputs: 30 per job
• Presets: 50 user-defined per region
• Pipelines: 4 per region
• Running jobs: 12 or 20 per pipeline (depending on region)
• Jobs per second: 2 (with a burst of 100)
• 2,400 outputs processed at the same time!

14. Walkthrough: Step 1: S3 Buckets
1. Create S3 bucket to store
input files
2. Create S3 bucket to store
outputs

15. Walkthrough: Step 2: Pipelines
1.Create an Elastic
Transcoder Pipeline
2.Set input and output
buckets
3.Choose SNS configuration
1. Topics can have 6 different
notification protocols

16. Walkthrough: Step 3: Jobs
1.One or more outputs
per job
2.Clip
3.Captions
4.Thumbnails
5.Watermarks

17. Walkthrough: Step 3: Jobs
1.Add Playlist (for HLS/Smooth)
2.Select format
3.Add all renditions

18. Get Started Today!
• Open an AWS Account
• Create an S3 Bucket
• Upload your content
• Create a transcode pipeline and job
• Deliver your content with Amazon CloudFront
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