On Nov 15, 2010, the Flix Cloud service will be shutting down. Flix Cloud is a video encoding service jointly offered by On2 Technologies (now Google) and Zencoder. Fortunately, Zencoder has made it easy for Flix Cloud customers to transition to the Zencoder service, which is a new and improved version of Flix Cloud.
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Support for watermarking is one of the top requests we received from early Zencoder customers. Today we're announcing support for advanced watermarking capability. We have spent a lot of time scrutinizing just how to implement watermarking and we solicited feedback from our customers. We're really excited about where we ended up. We support: GIF, JPEG, BMP, or PNG files Index or alpha transparency Positive and negative offsets Percentage-based scaling and offsets Multiple watermarks per video
All of us at Zencoder love new things and we love how fast things are moving in online video right now (for example, we've had VP8 support since the day it was announced publicly). However, there are still many codecs in wide use today that must continue to be supported for some time. We launched Zencoder with excellent support for the most commonly used formats. Today, we're announcing advanced VP6 support.
Our goal from day one has been to provide the simplest, highest quality, and fastest transcoding service available. Zencoder processes video for customers around the world but file transfers to the US are not always fast and efficient (even with the download acceleration we have already implemented). In order to speed things up for our international customers we have been working on first-class support for Amazon's data centers in Europe and Asia. This will help to cut down on transfer times of large video files between regions. Support for processing in these regions is entering public beta today.
Comparing online encoders can be a difficult task, especially when it comes to price. For encoding services like Zencoder, there isn't one pricing model that works perfectly and is easy to understand by everyone, so each encoding service has made their own choice on how to charge customers. The three models currently used are: Video Duration (minutes of output video) Video File Size (gigabytes of input and output) Encoding Server Time (months of encoding machine usage)
Thank you for helping make Zencoder so successful these first few months. We’ve had hundreds of sign-ups, and received tons of great feedback from everyone. We’ve listened to that feedback and are building great features into the platform, while continuing to make it even faster and easier to use.