ZEN Master
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Transformations
Transcoding Profiles
Viewing Existing Transcoding Profiles
2min
the transcoding profiles screen displays all existing transcoding profiles and details about their configuration when a profile is selected, the details of that profile are shown on the right side of the screen transcoding profiles list the main display includes the following data for each transcoding profile parameter description name the name of the transcoding profile as configured in zen master video the main video transcoding settings resolution bitrate video codec the video codec setting selected in the profile options include h 264 h 265 mpeg2 audio the main audio transcoding settings bitrate audio codec the audio codec setting selected in the profile options include aac dolby digital plus mpga (mpeg 1 layer2) when you select a transcoding profile the details of the selected profile are shown on the right side of the screen transcoding profile details the details pane includes the following data for the selected profile parameter description name the name of the transcoding profile video codec the video codec that is used, e g h 264/avc or h 265/hevc encoding profile the encoding configuration type, options are main baseline high resolution the video resolution settings fps the frame rate frames per second gop the number of frames in a gop (group of pictures) closed gop indicates whether or not the gop is closed fixed gop indicates whether or not the gop is fixed vbr indicated whether or not variable bitrate was enabled avg video bitrate the average bitrate for the profile max video bitrate the maximum bitrate for the profile performance the performance of the transcoding ranging from 1 (super fast) to 8 (very slow) b frames the maximal number of consecutive b frames in the gop interlaced indicates whether or not interlaced video was enabled reference frames the number of frames that can be referenced for each frame hrd buffer the length of the hrd buffer in mpeg 2 chroma subsampling the chroma subsampling conversion setting that was selected as source 4 4 4 4 2 2 4 2 0 audio codec the audio codec that was selected aac dolby digital plus mpga (mpeg 1 layer 2) audio profile the audio profile that was selected aac low complexity aac high efficiency aac high efficiency v2 audio sampling rate the audio sampling rate that was selected original 44 1 khz 48 khz audio gain the audio gain setting that was selected the audio gain increases/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 change tracking will list any changes made to profile sources will list any sources using this profile