Adding Transcoding Profiles

you can add your own custom profiles at any time you can also clone an existing profile to create a new profile with a similar configuration to add a transcoding profile in the main navigation, click transformations > transcoding profiles click + add the create new transcoding profile screen is displayed create transcoding profile in the name field, enter a name for the transcoding profile in the video section, select one of the following transcode (default) – transcodes the video stream according to the settings of the transcoding profile use original – does not transcodes the video stream this setting is used when you want to transcode the audio only remove – removes the video track completely if you selected transcode , then continue with the following procedure if you selected use original or remove then proceed to the audio configuration in step 14 under codec , select the radio button for the desired codec options are h 264 (avc) or h 265 (hevc) in the encoding profile field, select from the drop down menu the desired encoding profile for h 264 the options are main , baseline or high for h 265 the options are main or main 10 in the resolution section, do one of the following select the use source resolution checkbox to maintain the source resolution, or resize the video by entering the desired width and height in pixels if you resized the video and you would like to maintain the original aspect ratio then select the maintain source aspect ratio checkbox in the fps (frames per second) field, select one of the following options from the drop down list select original to use the original frame rate of the stream, or select a new frame rate from the list of frame rates if you select an fps that is different from the frame rate of the source video, "smooth frame rate conversion" is applied for zixi broadcasters v13 and up, the captions in the elementary stream are preserved when the framerate is converted if you would like to enable variable bitrate, select the vbr field and in the video bitrate section, enter the average and max video bitrate that the transcoder will output for this profile in the performance field, select the performance of the transcoding with options ranging from 0 (ultra fast) to 8 (very slow) (default value 4 (fast)) the higher the performance quality selected the greater the cpu usage selection of best quality in a system that doesn't have sufficient available cpu will generate errors if you would like to adjust the advanced video settings, click on advanced video the advanced video settings are displayed you can adjust the following settings gop – specify the number of frames in a gop (group of pictures) or select the source checkbox to use the gop setting of the source default value 30 closed – for a gop in which the previous pictures do not need data from the subsequent gop for bidirectional coding, select the closed checkbox (default) fixed – to always use the specified number of frames in the gop (as opposed to allowing the encoder to override), select the fixed checkbox (default) b frames – specifies the maximal number of consecutive b frames in the gop if you are using a player that doesn't support b frames then you must set the b frame value as 0 interlaced – select the checkbox if you would like to create interlaced video interlaced is supported for mpeg2 on sw transcoding (not h 264) reference frames – specify the number of frames that can be referenced for each frame (default 2) hrd buffer – specify the length of the hrd buffer in mpeg 2 (default 2) chroma subsampling – converts the source chroma sub sampling (method for "compression" of raw images) to 4 4 4/ 4 2 2 / 4 2 0 as source – maintains the same chroma subsampling as in the source 4 4 4 is applicable for nvidia hevc codec or x264 high profile 4 2 2 is not supported on nvidia gpu 4 2 0 is supported on nvidia and x264 in the audio section, select one of the following options transcode – select this option to perform transcoding on the audio use original – select this option to use the original audio settings this setting is used when you want to transcode the video only remove – removes the audio track completely when transcode is selected, the following audio settings can be specified in the audio profile field, select the profile to be used options are aac low complexity (default), aac high efficiency , aac high efficiency v2 (for use with broadcasters v13 and up) in the audio bitrate field, select from the drop down list the audio bitrate in kbps for this profile (default value 80) in the audio sampling rate field, select original in the drop down to apply the original sampling rate or select the desired resampling rate ( 1khz or 48khz ) in the audio gain field, specify the gain value which increases or decreases the volume of an audio pid encoded using this profile values between 0 1 means to decrease volume values > 1 means to increase volume 0 (if allowed in that screen) means mute 1 no change if you would like to insert a logo on the video during transcoding, check enable logo insertion you will then need to fill in the additional fields for the logo path , enter a url for a png file to be used for the logo note that while the image can be resized, the image quality will be best if the source has the same aspect ratio and is the approximate size of the logo as it should appear in the video select the coordinate mode if you choose pixels, the sizing and positioning of the logo will be exact pixels specified, regardless of the pixel size of the frame if you choose percentage the sizing and positioning of the logo will be a percentage of the pixel height and width of the frame for the x and y positions, enter pixel or percentage numerical values (depending on the coordinate mode) for the distances from the top left corner of the frame to the top left corner of the logo image for the height and width , enter pixel or percentage numerical values (depending on the coordinate mode) for the height and width of the logo optionally, enter an alpha value from 0 100 to define the opacity of the logo image leave blank to use the image file's alpha value click save the transcoding profile is added to the list of profiles available in the transcoding profiles screen