AWS API Changes

2024/12/19 - 12 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for inserting timecode tracks into MP4 container outputs.

2024/11/20 - 4 updated api methods

Changes This release adds the ability to reconfigure concurrent job settings for existing queues and create queues with custom concurrent job settings.

2024/09/19 - 8 updated api methods

Changes This release provides support for additional DRM configurations per SPEKE Version 2.0.

2024/09/12 - 1 new 12 updated api methods

Changes This release includes support for dynamic video overlay workflows, including picture-in-picture and squeezeback

2024/06/17 - 8 updated api methods

Changes This release includes support for creating I-frame only video segments for DASH trick play.

2024/06/14 - 1 new api methods

Changes This release adds the ability to search for historical job records within the management console using a search box and/or via the SDK/CLI with partial string matching search on input file name.

2024/04/09 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release includes support for bringing your own fonts to use for burn-in or DVB-Sub captioning workflows.

2024/02/01 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release includes support for broadcast-mixed audio description tracks.

2024/01/03 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release includes video engine updates including HEVC improvements, support for ingesting VP9 encoded video in MP4 containers, and support for user-specified 3D LUTs.

2023/11/10 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release includes the ability to specify any input source as the primary input for corresponding follow modes, and allows users to specify fit and fill behaviors without resizing content.

2023/10/03 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release adds the ability to replace video frames without modifying the audio essence.

2023/09/22 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release supports the creation of of audio-only tracks in CMAF output groups.

2023/08/24 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release includes additional audio channel tags in Quicktime outputs, support for film grain synthesis for AV1 outputs, ability to create audio-only FLAC outputs, and ability to specify Amazon S3 destination storage class.

2023/06/21 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release introduces the bandwidth reduction filter for the HEVC encoder, increases the limits of outputs per job, and updates support for the Nagra SDK to version 1.14.7.

2023/05/18 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release introduces a new MXF Profile for XDCAM which is strictly compliant with the SMPTE RDD 9 standard and improved handling of output name modifiers.

2023/04/24 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release introduces a noise reduction pre-filter, linear interpolation deinterlace mode, video pass-through, updated default job settings, and expanded LC-AAC Stereo audio bitrate ranges.

2023/04/10 - 3 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK now supports conversion of 608 paint-on captions to pop-on captions for SCC sources.

2023/03/03 - 11 updated api methods

Changes The AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has improved handling for different input and output color space combinations.

2023/02/27 - 11 updated api methods

Changes The AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for HDR10 to SDR tone mapping, and animated GIF video input sources.

2023/01/12 - 11 updated api methods

Changes The AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for compact DASH manifest generation, audio normalization using TruePeak measurements, and the ability to clip the sample range in the color corrector.

2022/12/02 - 11 updated api methods

Changes The AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for configurable ID3 eMSG box attributes and the ability to signal them with InbandEventStream tags in DASH and CMAF outputs.

2022/11/07 - 11 updated api methods

Changes The AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for setting the SDR reference white point for HDR conversions and conversion of HDR10 to DolbyVision without mastering metadata.

2022/10/14 - 11 updated api methods

Changes MediaConvert now supports specifying the minimum percentage of the HRD buffer available at the end of each encoded video segment.

2022/06/14 - 7 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for rules that constrain Automatic-ABR rendition selection when generating ABR package ladders.

2022/05/24 - 7 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for rules that constrain Automatic-ABR rendition selection when generating ABR package ladders.

2022/04/29 - 11 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK nows supports creation of Dolby Vision profile 8.1, the ability to generate black frames of video, and introduces audio-only DASH and CMAF support.

2022/04/08 - 11 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for the pass-through of WebVTT styling to WebVTT outputs, pass-through of KLV metadata to supported formats, and improved filter support for processing 444/RGB content.

2022/03/08 - 7 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for reading timecode from AVCHD sources and now provides the ability to segment WebVTT at the same interval as the video and audio in HLS packages.

2022/01/21 - 11 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for 4K AV1 output resolutions & 10-bit AV1 color, the ability to ingest sidecar Dolby Vision XML metadata files, and the ability to flag WebVTT and IMSC tracks for accessibility in HLS.

2022/01/03 - 11 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added strength levels to the Sharpness Filter and now permits OGG files to be specified as sidecar audio inputs.

2021/11/12 - 11 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added automatic modes for GOP configuration and added the ability to ingest screen recordings generated by Safari on MacOS 12 Monterey.

2021/10/20 - 7 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for specifying caption time delta in milliseconds and the ability to apply color range legalization to source content other than AVC video.

2021/10/08 - 3 new api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert has added the ability to set account policies which control access restrictions for HTTP, HTTPS, and S3 content sources.

2021/09/23 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release adds style and positioning support for caption or subtitle burn-in from rich text sources such as TTML. This release also introduces configurable image-based trick play track generation.

2021/08/24 - 11 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added MBAFF encoding support for AVC video and the ability to pass encryption context from the job settings to S3.

2021/08/03 - 7 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added control over the passthrough of XDS captions metadata to outputs.

2021/07/09 - 11 updated api methods

Changes MediaConvert now supports color, style and position information passthrough from 608 and Teletext to SRT and WebVTT subtitles. MediaConvert now also supports Automatic QVBR quality levels for QVBR RateControlMode.

2021/06/28 - 11 updated api methods

Changes MediaConvert adds support for HDR10+, ProRes 4444, and XAVC outputs, ADM/DAMF support for Dolby Atmos ingest, and alternative audio and WebVTT caption ingest via HLS inputs. MediaConvert also now supports creating trickplay outputs for Roku devices for HLS, CMAF, and DASH output groups.

2021/05/10 - 11 updated api methods

Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added support for Kantar SNAP File Audio Watermarking with a Kantar Watermarking account, and Display Definition Segment(DDS) segment data controls for DVB-Sub caption outputs.

2021/04/01 - 11 updated api methods

Changes MediaConvert now supports HLS ingest, sidecar WebVTT ingest, Teletext color & style passthrough to TTML subtitles, TTML to WebVTT subtitle conversion with style, & DRC profiles in AC3 audio.

2021/02/09 - 7 updated api methods