Using accelerated transcoding with hopped jobs

To reduce the transcoding time for certain jobs, use accelerated transcoding. In most cases, you submit accelerated jobs to on-demand queues, because reserved queues cannot run accelerated jobs. However, you can submit a job with Accelerated transcoding set Preferred to a reserved queue. When you do, if the job hops to an on-demand queue, it will run with acceleration enabled. For more information about accelerated transcoding, see Accelerated transcoding in the MediaConvert User Guide.

The following tabs provide different options for setting accelerated transcoding.

Console

To set Acceleration to Preferred in MediaConvert console:

1. Open the Create job page in the MediaConvert console.

2. Choose Job management from the Job settings menu.

3. Under Acceleration, choose Preferred by using the dropdown list.

API, SDK, or the AWS CLI

To specify preferred acceleration by using the API, SDK, or the AWS CLI, configure Mode under AccelerationSettings. This property is a direct child of Jobs, which is in the top level of the JSON job specification.

The following is an excerpt of a job settings JSON that specifies queue hopping to an on-demand queue with accelerated transcoding.

{
	"Settings": {
		"OutputGroups": [...],
		"Inputs": [...]
	},
	"AccelerationSettings": {
		"Mode": "PREFERRED"
	},
	"HopDestinations": [
		{
			"WaitMinutes": 10,
			"Queue": "arn:aws:mediaconvert:us-west-2:111122223333:queues/ondemandqueue",
			"Priority": 25
		}
	]
}

For more information, see the MediaConvert API Reference.