MediaConvert - User Guide

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 ?

2 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 .. 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.

3 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 .. 22 QuickTime Captions Track or Captions in MXF VANC Data (Ancillary).

4 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.

5 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 .. 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.

6 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.

7 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.

8 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 .. 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.

9 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.

10 76 Setting Up Still Graphic Overlays .. 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.