Choosing Pipeline and Preset Group
Your media content items may contain pipeline and preset group options. The default content types delivered with the Video plug-in contain the following two fields, which you will find on the content items' Metadata tabs:
- Pipeline
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Pipelines are Amazon Elastic Transcoder job queues (see About Amazon Elastic Transcoder for details). Usually you will have two pipelines to choose from:
- Default
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Use this queue unless the content item needs to be transcoded and published in a hurry
- High Priority
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Use this queue only for rush jobs
- Preset Group
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A preset is an Amazon Elastic Transcoder parameter set defining the output required from a transcoding job (see About Amazon Elastic Transcoder for details). By choosing a preset group, you determine what formats your audio or video item will be published in. You will usually have a fairly small number of options to choose from, for example:
These fields may not be available in your media content items (or may be present in some, but not others), and may have different names.