Save on Transcoding and Storage Part 3

This week’s Tip of the Week is another installment of our current series on how to conserve video minutes, save on transcoding and storage. Read previous Tips of the Week at: https://help.lightcast.com/tips-of-the-week

Last week we talked about optimizing the file size/quality ratio of the video files before uploading. Another way to reduce storage and transcoding, while keeping the video quality high, is to upload videos with shorter durations (longer videos produce bigger file sizes of course). Don’t forget: viewers' attention spans decrease continuously. 

If you use Lightcast’s LIVE-to-VOD CDN-side recording of Live-Events for workflow automation, then you can use the cloud-trimming feature to cut/trim start-point and end-point of video files directly on our servers through the Media Cloud before sending them into transcoding and onto the CDN storage. This way you can ensure that you are not transcoding and storing unnecessary parts of Live-Events which you could have removed. Of course, all your VOD files edited and exported on your editing suites locally are probably optimized in length already. 

Trimming Live Recordings: