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 Arc XP Native Specification (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.