Migrating video files onto Video Center

You can migrate your existing videos from your legacy system onto Arc XP’s Video Center platform. If you have a Customer Enablement (CE) contract in place, the CE Team can assist with the migration.

However, note that Arc XP charges for the video files that require re-encoding onto Video Center (including mezzanine-only imports).

Progressive MP4s and HLS MPEG-2 do not require re-encoding, and Arc XP does not charge for these specific file types.

How video migration works

During import, Video Center evaluates the streams object in the provided ANS structure.

• Video Center attempts to import and store each stream it finds (and each MP4).
• The largest MP4 file in the streams object is treated as the source video.

You can upload multiple encodings for a given video (import the whole ladder).

Note

An encoding ladder is a group of renditions at various bitrates. These “ladders” are used for adaptive bitrate streaming.

You must set the query parameter encode=true flag when you want Video Center to encode and create a new adaptive-bitrate stream ladder for your imported source video.