Creating Custom Live Ingest Profiles

In this topic you will learn how to create and manage custom Live ingest profiles.

The Ingest Profiles Administration page is used to manage custom Live ingest profiles. Live ingest profiles determine the number and quality of the renditions created by Brightcove Live. The Live ingest profiles are not used when uploading videos to a Video Cloud account. Ingest profiles are defined using JSON. Before creating a new ingest profile, review the Standard Live Ingest Profiles document to see if there is an existing profile available that will meet your needs.

Notes:

Trial accounts are restricted from creating profiles.
You can create renditions for vertical video - just include height and width values in the rendition specifications that match the aspect ratio of the video (1280 pixels is the maximum allowed value for the height).
When live profiles are hidden in Studio under Admin > Ingest Profiles, those won't be selectable in the Create Live Event UI but they can still be used with the Live API.
Live outputs are VBR.
The average video bitrate should be around the target value, but there can be brief periods when the measured video bitrate exceeds that target.
Live Tiers:
- SD Live streaming: Can have up to 3 renditions, max total bitrate of 2.5 mbps and max resolution of 720p.
- HD Live streaming: Can have up to 6 renditions, max total bitrate of 8 mbps and max resolution of 1080p.
- 4K Live streaming: Can have up to 8 renditions, max total bitrate of 15 mbps and max resolution of 2160p.

Creating a new profile

The Ingest Profiles Administration page can be used to create custom Live ingest profiles. Note that for the profile to appear in the Live module UI, it should have "model_version": 1 as part of the profile properties.

To create a new custom Live ingest profile:

Open the Admin module.
Click Ingest Profiles.
Click New Profile ˇ > Live.
Enter a Name for the profile and then click Create.
Use the Profile Editor to edit the profile as needed.
Click Save.

Duplicating a profile

It is possible to create a new profile by duplicating an existing profile. Then, you can edit the new profile with your changes. Note that for the profile to appear in the Live module UI, it should have "model_version": 1 as part of the profile.

To create a custom Live ingest profile by duplicating an existing profile:

Open the Admin module.
Click Ingest Profiles.
Locate a profile with a Type of Standard Live to duplicate. Click the profile name to open the profile editor.
Click Duplicate. 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.
Click Save.

The newly created profile will appear in the list of profiles. Custom profiles can be deleted by clicking the delete () button.