Desktop Adobe Air Application

When you begin using the Encoding.com Desktop Application or the API, you'll need to locate your API key to access the platform. A unique API key will be generated and assigned to your used ID upon successful creation of your Encoding.com user account. Please protect your key, as this key is a safeguard that we employ to restrict access to your user account. If for any reason, you suspect someone is using your account, you may regenerate your key. Directions follow below.

To locate your API key, login to the customer area @ http://www.encoding.com/login. Select 'My Account' from the list on the left. Within that page, you'll see a 33 digit key, containing both letters and numbers. Copy this locally, as well as your 4 digit user ID, as you'll need to plug this into the Desktop Application to get started. If you're a developer, you're all ready to start sending XMLs via API to Encoding.com. To regenerate your API key at any time, select 'Regenerate' and new unique key will be created for your account, which will end all previous access to the platform with the pre-existing key.

+ To add the user ID and key to the Desktop Application, please open the app, then and select 'Preferences' from the menu at the top. Plug in your user ID and your API key. That's it. You're ready to encode.

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Encoding.com Desktop is a application available for installation on both OSX and PC operating systems and allows easy upload, management and encoding of video files from your desktop to the Encoding.com cloud for processing. Our Encoding.com desktop is great for uploading large video files to the cloud and offers all of the features of our web service with simple drag and drop functionality and pause, resume upload functions. After processing is complete, the application can be configured to send videos back to the directory of your choice on your hard drive or directly to a FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files account. Encoding.com Desktop requires a Encoding.com account and can be downloaded from www.encoding.com/desktop <-- Hide

1) Open the Encoding.com Desktop application on your computer. Ensure that you have your Encoding.com User ID and API Key added to the preferences section.
2) Click Add Media or drag and drop a source video from your computer's hard drive.
3) Click Add Task to add one of our encoding presets or choose to create your own preset by editing and saving one of ours.
4) Click the Upload or Proceed button to begin the upload and encoding process.

You can also watch the video tutorial of this process
 

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A watch folder is a directory that's specified to be polled periodically by an encoding platform for new content. When new content arrives, the system will pull the file and convert it to the flavor of video you have requested. Our popular watch folder is a great alternative to integrating with our XML API and requires nothing more than a FTP/S3/Rackspace location to use. Simply login to our client interface, click Watch Folder and specify four things.

1) A FTP folder for our system to "watch" for new video files
2) The encoding profile of your choice: (FLV, MP4, iPod, iPhone, etc)
3) A frequency anywhere from every 5 minutes to once a 1 day 4)A destination FTP location where you would like us to send the encoded files.

In turn, you can also specify the usage of local watch folders via our Desktop Application, if you wish. Thats it! You can be up and running encoding video files with encoding.com in less than 5 minutes.

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The Desktop Application requires you to plug in a few details before you can start encoding video. If you are receiving this error, stop for a moment and verify a few items. You can pull all the required information from your login page @ encoding.com. Login and go to the 'My Account' section of the user interface.

1) In the File menu, select Preferences.
2) Ensure that the UserID is a numerical value as opposed to your username.
3) Cross reference the API key with the value from the 'My Account' section of your login page. Make sure this is correct.
4) Hit SAVE! You're done. Restart any and all jobs and see if the issue corrects itself.

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Login to the Encoding.com Client Interface www.encoding.com/login Visit the My Account page and retrieve your User ID and API User Key Open Encoding.com Desktop and select Preferences from the menu Enter your User ID and API User Key in the Account section

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