Step A: Prepare the MOV asset

1. Create a file – Use a third-party process to create a MOV file encoded with Apple QuickTime Run Length Encoding. Other codecs in the MOV container are not supported. Take care with the following settings:

   • Aspect ratio: The motion overlay can have any aspect ratio. It does not have to match the aspect ratio of the video output.

   • Frame rate: The frame rate of the motion overlay asset must match the frame rate of the underlying video.

   • Size: The motion overlay can be any size, in pixels, up to the size of the underlying video. The motion overlay must be prepared in the desired size; there is no way to resize it when setting it up in the event.

   • Position: The motion overlay cannot be positioned so that part of the motion overlay runs beyond the right edge or bottom edge of the underlying video.

     • If you set up a motion overlay so that it is too big or it overruns and Elemental Live can identify this error at event creation time, then an error message will appear.

     • If Elemental Live cannot identify the error in advance, an error message will appear while the event is running. The event will not stop but the insertion request will fail.

2. Place the file – Place the MOV file in a location accessible to the Elemental Live: on a local directory, on a remote filesystem accessible via mount point, or in an Amazon S3 bucket.

   You can specify the location in one of the following ways:

   • Local to the Elemental Live appliance. For example, /data/assets/motion overlay.mov

   • A remote server via a mount point. For example, /data/mnt/assets/motion overlay.mov

   • An Amazon S3 bucket, using SSL. For example, Amazon S3ssl://company.test/DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/motion overlay.mov

   • An Amazon S3 bucket, without SSL. For example, S3://company.test/DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/motion overlay.mov