In the DIY transcoding guide, it tells you to send a ticket to disable automatic transcoding if you intend to do it yourself. What about if you have an on-prem shotgun server? Do I just take the transcode workers offline? How does this work with uploads, then? What does calling sg.upload effective…

Wow, can this be added to the docs more clearly? Because I have been kind of in a pickle about this where I don’t want to turn of the automatic trancodes for the whole site. Just for certain projects/publishes where we want a bit more resolution/quality. Do we have to supply both h264 and webm?

For those cases, Ricardo, just make sure you never upload anything to sg_uploaded_movie and you should be able to manage image, filmstrip_image, sg_uploaded_movie_mp4 and sg_uploaded_movie_webm manually. You don’t have to supply both the mp4 and the webm it all depends which browser you use in your…

Hey Patrick, Where does Shotgun store the filmstrip thumbnails? I’d like to see an example of one as it was transcoded. Might help me understand how to re-create it.

One more question: Will the “download source file” button still work? It will then download the mp4 file?

Hi Ricardo, I just tested this and as I suspected you would not have a download button in the Client Review Site because there is no originally uploaded movie (which would live in the sg_uploaded_movie field). Only transcoded movies would exist as supplied in the sg_uploaded_movie_mp4 and/or sg_upl…

You made my day! This is just great to know :slight_smile:

Hi, I would be interested in the transcode parameters that other people are using. We switched from the default 720p / 2 Mbit (ouch!) to 1080p with a default constant rate factor of 24. The resulting quality is pretty close to awesome, even though the responsiveness when switching single frames i…

Hi, I’m debating whether or not turning off auto transcoding is a good option for us as well. Let’s say I: keep auto transcode on upload my_mp4 and my_webm to sg_uploaded_movie_mp4 and sg_uploaded_movie_webm do not upload anything to sg_upload_movie Will this: keep my_mp4 and my_webm in the sg…

Hi @Nik , If you do not upload anything to sg_uploaded_movie, then the transcoder won’t get triggered at all for that particular version. This means that: Anything you populate the sg_uploaded_movie_mp4 and sg_uploaded_movie_webm fields with will stay as is. The sg_uploaded_movie_frame_rate, imag…

Hey, just saw that banner that announces the shift for default transcodes from 720p to 1080p. I am wondering if this would render our internal DIY transcoding unneccessary? This is of course dependent on all paramters that you use for ffmpeg. Can you give us some insight what these new default se…

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You made my day!
This is just great to know

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