Elastic Transcoder and AWS Elemental MediaConvert

• MediaConvert a fairly new AWS product replacing Elastic Transcoder
• MediaConvert is a superset of features provided by Transcoder
• Both of the systems are file based video transcoding systems
• They are serverless transcoding services for which we pay per use
• For both we add jobs to pipelines (ET) or queues (MC)
• Files are loaded from S3, processed and stored back to S3
• MC supports EventBridge for job signalling
• ET/MC architecture example: ET/MC architecture
• We use these products when we need to the media convert in a serverless, event-driven media processing pipeline

Choosing between ET and MC

• ET is legacy, by default we should chose MC
• MC supports more codecs, design for larger volume and parallel processing
• MC supports reserved pricing
• ET required for WebM(VP8/VP9), animated GIF, MP3, Vorbis and WAV. All of these codecs are supported for MC. For everything else we should use MediaConvert