Creating Legacy Ingest Profiles
The Ingest Profiles administration page can be used to create new legacy ingest profiles. Ingest profiles are defined using JSON. When creating a new legacy profile, it is helpful to review the Standard Ingest Profiles for Legacy Transcoding document and locate a profile similar to what you need. Then, in Studio, you can easily duplicate the profile and then edit it with your changes.
Note: For information on creating ingest profiles that use DRM, see the MPEG-DASH Video developer document.
Note: Each profile can create a maximum of 25 renditions. Poster and thumbnail images do count towards the maximum of 25.
To create a new legacy ingest profile:
- Click the ADMIN link in the Studio header.
- Click the Ingest Profiles link.
- Locate a legacy profile to duplicate. Click the profile name to open the profile editor.
- Click Duplicate Profile. The profile editor will open with the new profile.
- Scroll to the top of the profile. Edit the
name
element to give the profile a meaningful name. This name will be displayed inside Video Cloud Studio. - Edit the
description
element to give the profile a meaningful description. - Edit the rendition information as needed. The default size for the poster and thumbnail images is located at the end of the profile.
- Click Save.
Adding a watermark to a profile
A watermark can be added to each rendition by adding the watermarks
element to each rendition
:
watermarks": [{ "y": -20, "x": -10, "width": "20%", "url": "http://www.mysite.com/companylogo.png" }]
The watermarks
element has the following parameters.
Parameter | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
url |
string | URL for the watermark image |
width |
string | width in pixels or percent of frame width; e.g. 20 or 10% |
height |
string | height in pixels or percent of frame width; e.g. 20 or 10% |
x |
string | distance from left edge to center of image as pixels or percent of frame width; e.g. 20 or 10% (use negative values like -10 to position the watermark relative to the right edge) |
y |
string | distance from top edge to center if image as pixels or percent of frame height; e.g. 20 or 10% (use negative values like -10 to position the watermark relative to the bottom edge) |
A sample profile with a watermark is shown below:
