Flip cloud video file encoding

Highest quality video for web, multiscreen or broadcast

SaaS platform with the best video encoding quality for variety of formats - from mobile to broadcast. Extensive set of customizable encoding profiles built to ensure the output matches industry standards.

  • H264, H.265 or WebM for web publishing
  • HLS & MPEG-DASH with Common Encryption DRM for multi-screen devices
  • MPEG-2 TS, XDCAM, AVC-Intra, IMX and many more for broadcasting and professional workflows
  • The only cloud based service to offer Apple certified ProRes output
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Unlimited scalability to meet all of your encoding needs

Managed solution that scales seamlesly while eliminating infrastructure costs and need for maintenance work on your side. State-of-the art infrastructure from leading Cloud providers ensures rock solid performance for any encoding volume.

  • Instant and unlimited scalability with AWS or Google cloud
  • Multiple storage locations and encoding regions for optimized delivery times (S3, GCS, Rackspace, Aspera, FTP)
  • GPU encoders for high performance tasks
  • High speed file transfer with Aspera FASP
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Standards conversion in the cloud

High quality standards conversion for professionals who deal with various broadcasting formats. Two video processors to choose from - Tachyon and Telestream.

  • On-demand standards conversion with usage based pricing
  • The award winning Tachyon high-quality format and standards conversions tools
  • Cost effective standards conversion with Telestream video processor
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Easy API integration and Vantage capacity extension

Streamline and manage encoding of large files volume with the help of REST API. Expand capacity of your existing Vantage setup by sending part of the encoding jobs to the cloud.

  • Easy yet powerful API with 99.99% Service Level Agreement and extensive documentation
  • Number of SDKs for all major programming languages
  • LiveSync watchfolder quick integration without writing a single line of code
  • Scalable cloud extra transcoding capacity for Vantage enterprise systems
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Standard pricing for video transcoding

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Easily produce high quality content for a variety of applications with fast and cost effective transcoding in the cloud.

  • Highest quality video for web, multiscreen or broadcast
  • Unlimited scalability to meet all of your encoding needs
  • Easy API integration and Vantage capacity extension
  • Standards conversion in the cloud

Pay As You Go Plan

Activate the service now and pay as you go for only what you use. No activation charge, and no hidden costs outside actual usage.

Managed solution that scales seamlesly while eliminating infrastructure costs and need for maintenance work on your side. State-of-the art infrastructure from leading Cloud providers ensures rock solid performance for any processing volume.

Enterprise

In addition to convenient pay-as-you-go options, Telestream offers enterprise plans that can be tailored to your specific needs. Enterprise plans include:

  • Significant discounts for volume & term commitments
  • API & console monitoring
  • Onboarding & integration services
  • Flexible payment & billing options

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How are minutes calculated?

We’re applying multipliers based on output quality and resources required to create encoded files. There are also additional per minute charges for add-ons on top of encoding rate.

Format & Quality Multiplier (<=30 fps) Multiplier (>30 and <=60 fps) Multiplier (>60 fps)
Web and Multiscreen (H.264 MP4, VP8, OGG)
SD 1x ($0.0100/minute)* 1.25x ($0.0125/minute) 1.5x ($0.0150/minute)
HD 2x ($0.0200/minute) 2.5x ($0.0250/minute) 3x ($0.0300/minute)
UHD 4x ($0.0400/minute) 5x ($0.0500/minute) 6x ($0.0600/minute)
4K+ 8x ($0.0800/minute) 10x ($0.1000/minute) 12x ($0.1200/minute)
Pro Formats (H.264 MPEG TS/PS, XDCAM, AVC Intra)
SD 2x ($0.0200/minute) 2.5x ($0.0250/minute) 3x ($0.0300/minute)
HD 4x ($0.0400/minute) 5x ($0.0500/minute) 6x ($0.0600/minute)
UHD 8x ($0.0800/minute) 10x ($0.1000/minute) 12x ($0.1200/minute)
4K+ 16x ($0.1600/minute) 20x ($0.2000/minute) 24x ($0.2400/minute)
Premium Formats (ProRes, DNxHD, HEVC, VP9)
SD 4x ($0.0400/minute) 5x ($0.0500/minute) 6x ($0.0600/minute)
HD 8x ($0.0800/minute) 10x ($0.1000/minute) 12x ($0.1200/minute)
UHD 16x ($0.1600/minute) 20x ($0.2000/minute) 24x ($0.2400/minute)
4K+ 32x ($0.3200/minute) 40x ($0.4000/minute) 48x ($0.4800/minute)
Add-ons Price
Telestream Standards Conversion $0.0800/minute
Tachyon Standards Conversion SD $0.8000/minute
Tachyon Standards Conversion HD $0.8800/minute
Tachyon Standards Conversion UHD $0.9600/minute
Tachyon Standards Conversion 4K+ $1.0400/minute
Others Multiplier
Audio 0.5x ($0.0050/minute)
Transmuxing 0.5x ($0.0050/minute)

Examples

Cost of transcoding 1 minute source to 6 HLS outputs (H.264 MP4), 4 SD and 2HD, 30 fps and audio only variant:
(4 x $0.0100) + (2 x 2 x $0.0100) + (0.5 x $0.0100) = $0.0650

Cost of transcoding 1 minute source to XDCAM HD, 50fps (progressive) with Tachyon Standards Conversion
(4 x 1.25 x $0.0100) + $0.880 = $0.930

Cost of transcoding 1 minute of ProRes UHD, 60fps (interlaced)
(16 x $0.0100) = $0.160

Supported Formats

Input formats

Telestream Cloud can accept pretty much any video or audio codec as input. If you need to have a very specific format supported in Telestream Cloud please contact us.

Output formats

We offer encoding to most popular output formats for web publishing, professional broadcasting, multiscreen and audio, including most commonly used listed below.

Web and professional formats & codecs

MP4
WEBM
QuickTime
OGG
MXF
MPEG2-TS
MPEG2-PS
H.264
H.265
VP8
VP9
Theora
MPEG-4
MPEG-2
MPEG-TS
ProRes (Apple Certified)
XDCAM HD
XDCAM HD422
XDCAM EX
IMX
AVC-Intra
DNxHD

Adaptive bitrate formats & codecs

HLS
MPEG-DASH
H.264

Audio formats & codecs

MP3
AAC
Vorbis
Opus
PCM

See Complete List of Supported Formats and Codecs Below


Name Input Output
3gp 3gp2
3gpp amr
A64 - video for commodore 64
Adobe filmstrip
ADTS AAC
Apple Core Audio format
ASF
Audio IFF
AVI
CRC testing
Creative Voice
CRI ADX
D-Cinema audio
DV
Extract pts as timecode v2 format, as defined by mkvtoolnix
F4V Adobe Flash Video
FFM
Ffmpeg metadata in text
FLV
Framecrc testing
G.729 bit file format
GIF animation
GXF
HNM4
IEC 61937
ILBC storage
Image2 sequence
Ipod h.264 mp4
ISMV/ISMA
Jacosub subtitle format
Lego Mindstorms RSO
LOAS/LATM
Loki SDL mjpeg
Matroska
MD5 testing
MicroDVD subtitle format
Microsoft Windows ICO
MIME multipart jpeg
MP2 MP4
MP3
MPEG-1 systems / MPEG program stream
MPEG-2 ps
MPEG-TS
MXF
NUT
Name Input Output
OGG
ON2 IVF
PCM 32-bit/64-bit floating-point little-endian/big-endian
PCM a-law/mu-law
PCM signed 16-bit/24-bit/32-bit little-endian/big-endian
PCM signed/unsigned 8-bit
PCM unsigned 16-bit/24-bit/32-bit little-endian/big-endian
Per-frame MD5 testing
Piped image2 sequence
PSP MP4
Quicktime / MOV
RAW AC-3
RAW chinese AVS
RAW Dirac
RAW DNXHD
RAW DTS
RAW E-AC-3
RAW FLAC
RAW g.722/g.723.1
RAW h.261/h.263/h.264 video
RAW ID ROQ
RAW mjpeg video
RAW MLP
RAW MPEG-1/MPEG-2 video
RAW MPEG-4 video
RAW TrueHD
RAW video
RealMedia
RTP output
Segment
Smooth Streaming Muxer
Sony OpenMG audio
SOX native
SSA
Streaming Segment Muxer
Subrip subtitle
Sun AU
SWF
VC-1 test bitstream
WAW/WAVE
WAVpack
WEBM
Windows Television
Yamaha SMAF
YUV4MPEG pipe

Name Input Output
4X movie
8088Flex TMV
Aja kona 10-bit RGB codec
Amazing studio packed animation file video
American laser games mm video
AMV video
Apple mjpeg-b
Apple ProRes
Apple Quickdraw
ASCII/ANSI art
Asus v1/v2
ATI VCR1
Auravision aura/aura 2
Autodesk animator flic video
Autodesk RLE
Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB packer
Avid AVI codec
Avid Meridien
AVS
Beam Software VB
Bethesda VID video
Binary text
Bink Video
Bitmap Brothers JV video
BMP
Brute Force & Ignorance
Camstudio
Canopus Lossless Codec
CD graphics video
Chinese AVS
Chronomaster DFA
Cinepak
Cirrus Logic accupak
Commodore CDXL video
CPIA video format
Creative YUV
Delphine Software International cin video
Deluxe Paint animation
Dirac
Discworld II BMV video
DPX image
Duck Truemotion 1.0/2.0
DV
DVB Teletext
Dxtory
Electronic Arts CMV/MADCOW/TGQ/TGV/TGI video
Escape 124/130
Extended binary text
Feeble files/scummvm DXA
Ffmpeg video codec #1
Flash screen video v1/v2
FLV / sorenson spark / sorenson h.263
Forward uncompressed
Fraps
GIF
GoToMeeting
H.261
h.263 / h.263-1996, h.263+ / h.263-1998 / h.263 version 2
h.263+ / h.263-1998 / h.263 version 2
h.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
h.265 / HEVC
HNM4
Huffyuv/Huffyuv ffmpeg variant
IBM ultimotion
Icedraw text
ID quake II CIN video
ID ROQ video
IFF byterun1/ilbm
Intel h.263
Intel Indeo 2/3
Intel Indeo video interactive 4/5
Interplay c93/Interplay MVE video
JPEG 2000
JPEG-LS
Karl morton's video codec
Kega game video
Lagarith lossless
LCL
Loco
Lossless JPEG
Name Input Output
Lucasarts Smush video
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
Mimic
Mirillis FIC
Miro Videoxl
Mobotix Mxpeg video
Motion JPEG
Motion pixels video
MPEG-1 video
MPEG-1/2 video XVMC
MPEG-4 part 2
MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft Variant version 1
MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft Variant version 2/3
MS ATC screen
MS Expression encoder screen
MS screen 1
MS Windows media video V9 screen
Multicolor charset for commodore 64/ext with 5th color
Nintendo Gamecube THP video
Nuppelvideo/rtjpeg
ON2 VP3/VP5/VP6
ON2 VP8
Openexr image
PAM
PBM
PC Paintbrush PCX image
PGM
PGM YUV
Pictor/PC Paint
Pinnacle Targa Cinewave YUV16
PNG
PPM
Psygnosis YOP video
Q-Team QPEG
Quicktime 8bps Video
Quicktime animation
Quicktime graphics/video
RAW video
Realvideo 1.0/2.0
Realvideo 3.0/4.0
Renderware txd
RL2 video
SGI image
Sierra VMD video
Smacker video
SMPTE VC-1
Snow
Sony Playstation MDEC
Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson video 1 / SVQ1
Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 / Sorenson video 3 / SVQ3
Sun rasterfile image
Sunplus JPEG
Techsmith screen capture codec
Techsmith screen codec 2
Theora
Tiertex Limited SEQ video
TIFF image
Truevision Targa Image
Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit/4:4:4 10-bit
Uncompressed packed 4:2:0/4:4:4
Uncompressed packed MS 4:4:4:4/QT 4:4:4:4
Uncompressed RGB 10-bit
Uncompressed YUV 4:1:1 12-bit
UT video
V.flash PTX image
VBLE lossless codec
VC3/DNXHD
Vmware screen codec / vmware video
VP9
Westwood studios VQA
Windows Media Video 7/8
Windows Media Video 9/9 image/9 image v2
Wing Commander III / XAN/IV / XXAN
Winnov WNV1
XBM
XWD
Zerocodec lossless video
ZIP motion blocks video

Name Input Output
8SVX exponential/Fibonacci
8SVX RAW
AAC
AAC LATM
ADPCM 4x movie
ADPCM CDROM XA
ADPCM Creative Technology
ADPCM DTK
ADPCM Electronic Arts
ADPCM Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XA
ADPCM Electronic Arts r1/r2/r3
ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS
ADPCM IMA AMV
ADPCM IMA Cryo APC
ADPCM IMA Duck DK3/DK4
ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts EACS/SEAD
ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS
ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJPEG
ADPCM IMA Quicktime
ADPCM IMA Radical
ADPCM IMA WAV
ADPCM IMA Westwood
ADPCM Microsoft
ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube THP
ADPCM Shockwave Flash
ADPCM Sound Blaster PRO 2-bit/2.6-bit/4-bit
Adpcm yamaha
ADU
ALAC
Amazing Studio packed animation file audio
AMR-NB/AMR-WB
ATRAC 1/3/3+
ATSC a/52a/a/52b
Bink audio
Constrained Energy lapped transform
Cook / Cooker / Gecko
DCA
Delphine Software International cin audio
Discworld II BMV audio
DPCM ID ROQ
DPCM Interplay/SOL/XAN
DSP Group Truespeech
FLAC
G.722 ADPCM/G.726 ADPCM
Name Input Output
G.723.1
G.729
GSM/GSM microsoft variant
IAC
ILBC
IMC
Lucasarts Vima audio
Mace
MLP
Monkey's audio
MP1
MP2/MP3
MP3 on MP4
MPEG-4 audio lossless coding
Musepack SV7/SV8
Nellymoser ASAO
Opus
Qcelp / Purevoice
Qdesign Music
Qdesign Music codec 2
Realaudio 1.0
Realaudio 2.0
Realaudio lossless
Realaudio sipr / acelp.net
Sega CRI ADX ADPCM
Shorten
Sierra VMD audio
Smacker audio
SMPTE 302M
Sonic
Sonic lossless
Sony ATRAC3+
Speex
TrueHD
TTA
Vorbis
Voxware MetaSound
VQF Twinvq
Wave synthesis pseudo-codec
Wavpack
Westwood audio
Windows Media Audio 1/2
Windows Media Audio 9 Professional
Windows Media Audio lossless/voice

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