AWS Elemental MediaConvert

1 MediaConvertUser GuideMediaConvert User GuideMediaConvert: User GuideCopyright 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights 's trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Amazon's, in any mannerthat is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Amazon. All other trademarks notowned by Amazon are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored User GuideTable of ContentsWhat Is AWS Elemental MediaConvert ? .. 1 Getting Started .. 3 Step 1: Sign Up for AWS .. 3 Step 2: Create Storage for Files .. 4 Step 3: Set Up IAM Permissions .. 4 Step 4: (Optional) Get Set Up to Use Encryption.

2 5 Step 5: Upload Files for Transcoding .. 5 Create a Job .. 5 Setting Up a Job .. 6 Optional: Pause Your Queues .. 6 Step 1: Specify Input Files .. 7 Step 2: Create Input Selectors .. 8 Audio Tracks and Audio Selectors .. 9 Step 3: Create Output Groups .. 10 Step 4: Create Outputs .. 11 Creating ABR Streaming Outputs .. 11 Creating and Setting Up File Outputs .. 14 Step 5: Specify Global Job Settings .. 16 Structuring Complex Jobs in MediaConvert .. 17 Output Groups and Outputs .. 17 Choosing Your Streaming Output Groups .. 18 HLS Player Version Support .. 19 Setting Up Captions .. 21 Set the Timecode Source Settings .. 21 Gathering Required Captions Information .. 21 Creating Input Captions Selectors.

3 22 QuickTime Captions Track or Captions in MXF VANC Data (Ancillary) .. 22 CEA/EIA-608, CEA/EIA-708 (Embedded) .. 23 DVB-Sub .. 23 Teletext .. 24 SCC, SRT, STL, TTML (Sidecar) .. 24 Setting Up Captions in Outputs .. 25 TTML and WebVTT (ABR) Output Captions .. 26 CEA/EIA-608 and CEA/EIA-708 (Embedded) Output Captions .. 26 DVB-Sub and Teletext Output Captions .. 27 SCC, SRT (Sidecar) Output Captions .. 27 Burn-In Output Captions.. 28 Working with Jobs .. 29 Duplicating a Completed Job.. 29 Viewing Your Job History .. 30 Canceling a Job .. 31 Working with Output Presets .. 33 Using Output Presets .. 33 Listing and Viewing Output Presets .. 34 Creating a Custom Preset from Scratch .. 34 Creating a Custom Preset from a System Preset.

4 36 Modifying Custom Output Presets .. 37 Deleting a Preset .. 38 Working with Job Templates .. 39 Using a Job Template to Create a Job .. 39 Listing and Viewing Job Templates .. 40 Creating a Custom Preset from Scratch .. 41 Modifying Custom Job Templates .. 43 Deleting a Custom Job Template .. 44iiiMediaConvert User GuideWorking with Queues .. 45 How Queues Work .. 45 About On-Demand Queues.. 46 About Reserved Queues .. 46 Working with On-Demand Queues .. 47 Creating an On-Demand Queue .. 48 Pausing and Reactivating On-Demand Queues .. 48 Listing and Viewing On-Demand Queues.. 49 Deleting a Queue.. 50 Working with Reserved Queues .. 51 Creating a Reserved Queue .. 51 Purchasing Additional Capacity for a Reserved Queue.

5 53 Editing Reserved Queues .. 54 Listing and Viewing Reserved Queues .. 55 Purchasing Transcoding Capacity for an Existing Reserved Queue .. 55 Deleting a Reserved Queue .. 56 Setting Up Timecodes .. 58 Adjusting the Job-wide Timecode Configuration .. 59 Adjusting the Input Timecode Setting .. 60 Adjusting the Output Timecode Settings .. 60 Inserting Timecode Metadata .. 60 Burning In Timecodes on the Video Frames .. 61 Using QVBR .. 62 QVBR Compared with Other Modes .. 62 Guidelines for Using QVBR .. 63 QVBR Quality Level .. 64 Managing SCTE-35 Markers .. 65 Including SCTE-35 Markers in an Output .. 65 Including SCTE-35 Information in Your HLS Manifest .. 65 Blanking Out Content from Ad Avails .. 66 Using Encryption.

6 67 Using Encrypted Content Keys with DRM.. 67 Encrypting Content .. 68 SPEKE Encryption Parameters .. 68 Static Key Encryption Parameters .. 69 Troubleshooting Encryption .. 69 Setting Up a Job for HDR .. 71 Color Space Metadata Settings .. 71 Correcting Input Color Space Metadata .. 72 Inserting Color Metadata in the Output .. 72 Correcting Color in the Output .. 72 Brightness, Contrast, Hue, and Saturation.. 72 Color Space Conversion .. 72 HDR Master Display .. 73 Using Image Inserter (Graphic Overlay) .. 74 Still Graphic Overlay .. 74 Choosing Between Input Overlay and Output Overlay .. 74 Placing Your Still Graphic Overlay .. 76 Requirements for the Overlay File .. 76 Setting Up Still Graphic Overlays.

7 77 Setting Up Still Graphic Overlays in Inputs .. 77 About Sizing Your Overlay to Account for Scaling .. 78 About Specifying Layer.. 78 Motion Image Inserter .. 78 Placing Your Motion Graphic Overlay .. 79 Requirements for the Motion Overlay File .. 79 Setting Up Graphic Overlays .. 80ivMediaConvert User GuideInput Clipping.. 81 Supported Input Codecs and Containers .. 82 Video.. 82 Audio.. 82 Supported Output Codecs and Containers .. 84 Video.. 84 Audio.. 84 Captions Support Tables by Output Container Type .. 86 CMAF Output Container.. 86 DASH Output Container .. 87 HLS Output Container.. 88MS Smooth (MSS) Output Container .. 91MP4 Output Container.. 93 MPEG2-TS File Output Container .. 95 QuickTime Output Container.

8 98No Output Container.. 100 Example Job Settings .. 103 Example mp4 Output.. 103 Example ABR Output.. 105 AWS Elemental MediaConvert Postman Collection Files .. 112 GET Collection .. 112 POST Collection .. 116 Tagging Collection .. 124 Monitoring MediaConvert .. 131 CloudWatch Events .. 131 Tutorial: SNS Alerts .. 132 Output File Names and Paths .. 135 AWS Elemental MediaConvert Events .. 142 CloudWatch Metrics .. 143 Dimensions for AWS Elemental MediaConvert Metrics .. 144 Error Codes .. 145 Tagging Queues, Templates, and Presets .. 151 Setting Up Resources for Cost Allocation Through Tagging .. 151 Adding Tags When Creating a Resource .. 152 Adding Tags When Creating a Resource .. 152 Adding Tags When Creating a Resource (API and AWS CLI).

9 153 Adding Tags to an Existing Resource .. 153 Viewing Tags on a Resource .. 154 Editing Tags on a Resource .. 154 Removing Tags from a Resource .. 155 Tag Restrictions .. 155 Tagging Jobs .. 156 Job Tag Restrictions .. 156 Logging MediaConvert API Calls with CloudTrail .. 157 MediaConvert Information in CloudTrail .. 157 Understanding MediaConvert Log File Entries .. 158 Document History .. 161 AWS Glossary .. 164vMediaConvert User GuideWhat Is AWS ElementalMediaConvert?AWS Elemental MediaConvert is a file-based video processing service that provides scalable videoprocessing for content owners and distributors with media libraries of any size. MediaConvert offersadvanced features that enable premium content experiences, including: professional broadcast codecs that support increased bit depth and HDR content creation still graphic overlays advanced audio digital rights management (DRM) closed captioning supportAWS Elemental MediaConvert offers support for various input formats and adaptive bitrate (ABR)packaging output formats for delivering high-quality content from a range of sources onto primary andmultiscreen simple use cases, you can set up a MediaConvert transcoding job in just a few steps.

10 For instructions,see Getting Started with AWS Elemental MediaConvert (p. 3). MediaConvert has the following components:JobsA job does the work of transcoding. Each job converts an input file into an output file or files. Inputsand outputs can contain one or more of video, audio, and captions, either together or in separatefiles. Before you begin creating jobs, make sure that you know what your input files are and whatthey contain. Also make sure that you know what files you would like to create as outputs and whatformat you would like them you create a job, you specify the name of the file that you want to transcode, the names thatyou want MediaConvert to give to the finished output files, and several other queue allows you to manage the resources that are available to your account for parallelprocessing of jobs.