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Harmonic Video Transcoding
A Complete Guide

Harmonic video transcoding

Broadcasters, Cable MSO’s, Media Companies, OTT services, Telcos or any other content distributors who’ve been looking to expand their workflow capabilities into the cloud can now do so with Encoding.com and Harmonic. Encoding.com has integrated both the ProMedia Carbon  and ProMedia Xpress transcoding engines into our cloud infrastructure. The integration delivers the best of Harmonic’s video transcoding engines with the scale, automation, and features of the Encoding.com cloud. You can now access a service that provides superior video quality, robust format support, dynamic and instant scale, and the flexibility of a feature-rich web application. Let’s take a closer look at what ProMedia Carbon and Xpress deliver.

Benefits of ProMedia Carbon and Xpress in the Cloud

Easy Migration

From cloud to on-premise and back again. Encoding.com extends your existing ProMedia Carbon or Xpress presets when initiating Carbon jobs in the cloud.

Economic Pricing

Flexible, utility-based pricing models that scale with volume.

Processing Speed

Encoding.com runs Carbon on 32 of the latest generation core servers for ultra-fast processing.

Dynamic Scale

Encoding.com scales compute resource with job volume. Send us 500 assets and we will dynamically spin up 500 servers.

Cloud Storage Ready

Encoding.com can download and deliver assets to and from the leading cloud storage and CDN providers, including Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Dropbox, Akamai, Limelight, and Edgecast.

Managed Software

Encoding.com runs the latest versions of Carbon and Xpress for access to the latest features.

Proximity to Source Content

Encoding.com runs in 10 global data centers, allowing you the fastest upload and download speeds for your source content.

Flexible Integration Methods

Automate a workflow with our well-documented API, setup watch folders quickly in our UI, or use our Aspera desktop client to upload large files fast.

Harmonic ProMedia Carbon

Supported Formats of ProMedia Carbon

Broadcasters, Cable MSO’s, Big Media, OTT providers, Telcos… any and all premium content distributors who’ve been looking to expand their advanced workflow capabilities into the cloud can now do so with Encoding.com and Harmonic. By integrating the ProMedia Carbon engine into our cloud platform, we’ve empowered media professionals with the best in on-premise transcoding and the scale and feature-rich workflow capabilities of Encoding.com. Simply, you can now access a service that provides superior video quality, robust format support, dynamic and instant scale, and the flexibility of a feature-rich web application.

Seamlessly burst from your existing Harmonic WFS The integration is available as either a pure cloud-based or integrated cloud-burst offering. The new service provides Carbon users with an unlimited cloud capacity for converting broadcast-quality video content into virtually any standard media format.

Generate MPEG-2 CableLabs spec in the cloud? Now you can. Access all of the Carbon features via the Encoding.com API or UI.

Designed for existing Harmonic video encoding customers utilizing ProMedia Carbon with a WFS™ file-based workflow engine, on-premise users can simply divert workloads to a watch folder that is routed to the Encoding.com cloud. Armed with the ability to burst to the cloud, users can significantly reduce content turnaround time from source to target. The image below illustrates configuration of the Harmonic WFS to burst transcoding overage into the Encoding.com cloud.

Using ProMedia Carbon with Encoding.com

Automating your workflow is easy with our robust API, the snippets below will get you started, for more details, see our API docs.

ProMedia Carbon preset GUID

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<query>
<format>
<output>harmonic</output>
<preset_guid>[HarmonicPresetUrl]</preset_guid>
<destination>[DestinationUrl]</destination>
</format>
</query>

ProMedia Carbon preset file

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<query>
<format>
<output>harmonic</output>
<preset_file>[HarmonicPresetUrl]</preset_file>
<source_filter_1_file>[FileURL]</source_filter_1_file>
<destination_filter_0_file>[FileURL]</destination_filter_0_file>
<destination>[DestinationUrl]</destination>
</format>
</query>

ProMedia Carbon other options

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<query>
<format>
<output>harmonic</output>
<!-- harmonic preset options -->
<use_grid_encoder>[yes|no]</use_grid_encoder>
</format>
</query>

Harmonic ProMedia Xpress

Supported Formats of ProMedia Xpress

Transport Stream I/O

wdt_IDnew_columnnew_column_1
1Baseband OperationsHigh-quality deinterlacer, High-quality scaler, Frame rate converter, Color space correction
2User-Selectable Filters and ToolsAudio channel mixer (including downmixer), Crop, Logo insertion
3Audio Channel MixerMap incoming audio channels and tracks to outgoing ones 5.1 and 7.1 to stereo downmixing

Supported Features

wdt_IDTypeInputsOutputs
1ContainerMPEG-2 TSSet of MPEG-2 SPTS
2VideoMPEG-2, H.264, including CableLabs and AVC1H.264
3AudioDolby® Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3), MPEG-1 Layer II, AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1 & v2, SMPTE 302MAC-3, E-AC-3, MPEG-1 Layer II, AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1 & v2
4MetadataClosed Captions: A/53, Teletext PID, DVB Subtitling PID, Splicing signaling: SCTE-35Closed Captions, Teletext PID, DVB Subtitling PID

Encryption Formats

Apple HLS
MSS
Adobe HDS
MPEG-DASH

ABR Streaming Protocols

wdt_IDnew_columnnew_column_1
1Apple HLSAES-128 CBC, Sample AES
2MSSPlayReady® AES-CTR
3Adobe HDSAccess 3.0

Using  Harmonic ProMedia Xpress with Encoding.com

Automating your workflow is easy with our robust API, the snippets below will get you started, for more details, see our API docs.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<query>
<format>
<!-- Format fields -->
<output>harmonic_json</output>
<preset_file_transcode>[PresetFileURL]</preset_file_transcode> <!-- REQUIRED -->
<preset_file_transcode_2>[PresetFileURL]</preset_file_transcode_2>
<preset_file_multiplex>[PresetFileURL]</preset_file_multiplex>
<!-- Destination fields -->
<destination>[DestFile]</destination> <!-- REQUIRED -->
</format>
</query>

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