Retranscoding Videos

This topic shows you how to retranscode an existing video in your account to produce a new set of renditions.

Brightcove reserves the right to update the default ingest profiles associated with Beacon accounts. You may also have the need to update your own, custom ingest profiles. When ingest profiles change, you may wish to have existing videos in your account retranscoded so that they have renditions that correspond to the new ingest profile settings.

Videos can be retranscoded using the Media module or by using the Dynamic Ingest API. Using the Dynamic Ingest API may be a better solution when you have a large number of videos that require retranscoding. To retranscode videos using the Dynamic Ingest API, see the Dynamic Ingest API Overview developer document.

Steps to retranscode a video

Follow these steps to replace the existing renditions for a video.

Open the Media module.
Click on the video you want to retranscode.
Click the Video and Tracks tab.
In the Video Files section, click Retranscode.
Select an ingest profile to use.
Check Keep existing thumbnail and poster images to keep the existing images. If you uncheck this box, new images will be generated based upon the image settings in the selected ingest profile.
Note that if you check the box, the existing images will be preserved - however, the image URLs will change.

Note: If the account is enabled for forensic watermarking, there will be an option to either add a forensic watermark or keep the existing forensic watermark.
Click Retranscode .

While the new renditions are being created, the video will remain playable using the existing renditions.