AWS for M&E Blog
Author: Jeremy Johnson
Jeremy is a Sr. Technical Specialist for AWS Elemental MediaConvert at AWS. His role is helping customers build and support their video on demand solutions using AWS services. He is not a cat, but would like to be one.
Using Amazon IVS and MediaConvert in a post processing workflow
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) can now record live streams to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This allows you to save previous live streams to Amazon S3 for later re-use. Pairing this with AWS Elemental MediaConvert HLS ingest allows customers to use broadcast-grade features such input clipping, stitching, SCTE-35 insertion, and image overlay […]
Creating dashboards and alarms for AWS Elemental MediaConvert using Amazon CloudWatch
Introduction If you are developing an automated video-on-demand workflow, you may at times need to monitor specific parts of the workflow pipeline. When it comes to the transcoding piece of the workflow, AWS Elemental MediaConvert is integrated with Amazon CloudWatch to provide metrics and events from the MediaConvert service. You can create simple CloudWatch dashboards […]
How to migrate workflows from Amazon Elastic Transcoder to AWS Elemental MediaConvert
March 2025: The contents of this post are outdated. Please refer to this post for updated info: Migrating workflows from Amazon Elastic Transcoder to AWS Elemental MediaConvert Introduction At re:Invent 2017, AWS Elemental released five new media processing and delivery services. One of these services, AWS Elemental MediaConvert, shares functionality with another file-based video transcoding service on […]