You easily convert digital video for streaming, downloads, set top boxes, or portable media players by subscribing to Advection.NET's high performance transcoding server farm.
If you have digital content already, created by digital video cameras, produced by software like Premiere, Final Cut, or even Windows Movie Maker, or copied from DVDs, you can upload that content to our network for automated transcoding into digital downloads or streaming media formats.
Or, if you operate a user generated content ("UGC") site that allows visitors to upload their own video, we can accept that video and convert it into the digital downloads or streaming media format your site offers.
Unlimited Transcoding Plans
The pricing for transcoding is based on the configuration and capacity of the system you'll be using to convert your media throughout the following month. We don't charge a "per file" processing fee.
You can choose the maximum file sizes you want to support, the number of formats you want to convert to, and the number of files you want to be able to process simultaneously.
| Transcoding | UGC | Pro | Studio | Profiles* | Queues* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price/Month | 149 | 449 | 1,850 | 10 ea. | 95 ea. |
| Setup | 95 | 195 | 495 | 45 ea. | 450 ea. |
| Max Source | 200 MB | 2 GB | 6 GB | - | - |
| Incl. Profiles | 1 | 2 | 4 | (+1 ea.) | - |
| Incl. Queues | Shared | 1 | 1 | - | (+1 ea.) |
| Working Space | 1 GB | 10 GB | 100 GB | - | +10 GB ea. |
| Priority | Shared | High | High | - | - |
| FTP Upload | Yes | Yes | Yes | - | - |
| HTTP Upload | Yes | Yes | Yes | - | - |
| Drive Shipping | No | No | Yes | - | - |
| Upload API | Yes | Yes | Yes | - | - |
| Queue API | No | Yes | Yes | - | - |
| Profile API | No | No | Yes | - | - |
At least one encoding profile and at least one encoding queue are included in each plan; see the table for details. Additional target encoding profiles or additional encoding queues can be added to any plan. To set up your transcoding, arrange for more profiles or additional queues, request special provisioning, or arrange for drive shipping, please contact our support team.
Simplified Conversion
We accept files in many standard formats, including MPEG1/2, MPEG4, Windows Media, Flash, QuickTime, DV, and more. We transcode to Windows Media, Silverlight, and Flash, in the latest versions and also typically support output to the most recent prior version.
The type of file we create is based on a "profile" that tells us the size, bitrate, and other parameters of the video you want produced. Many customers only use a single profile since all content on their site is the same size and bitrate. However, we're happy to configure any number of profiles, so you can produce, for example, a streaming file at 300 kbps, a download file at 700 kbps, as well as a "set top box" file at 2 mbps. In this example, you'd have your included profile plus two additional profiles.
À la Carte Performance
A transcoding subscription supports transcoding for one file at a time. If you upload multiple files, they are put into a queue, and are processed one at a time. Many formats take more time to transcode than the playback time of the file, so if you upload ten files that take an hour each to transcode, the process will take 10 hours. If you need to encode faster than that, you can subscribe to additional transcoding queues, to encode multiple files at once. For example, if you subscribe to 2 queues, you could process 10 hours of transcoding in 5 hours, or with 5 queues, you could process 10 hours of transcoding in 2 hours.