Below are the specifications for uploading your video for FYC, College Television Awards, Los Angeles Area Awards, Television Academy Honors, or Sneak Peek on our Viewing Platform. Please be sure your submitted video conforms to these parameters:
Video: 1920x1080 progressive
Codec: H.264
Bit rate: 6-8 MB
Audio: AAC, stereo, 192-320kbps, 44-48 kHz
MP4 format is preferred.
No added slates, timecodes, bars & tone, commercials or promos.
Audio Channel Requirements:
Content may be 2-channel stereo, or 5.1 surround. Please refer to the information below for reference for suitable ways of supplying audio tracks.
We support items listed under 'Stereo' and '5.1 + Downmixed stereo'. As for Atmos, Bitmovin requires ADM or DAMF input and output as DD+ with JOC in an MP4 container.
Supported 2021
Stereo
1 stream with 2 channels
2 streams with 1 channel each
5.1 + Downmixed stereo
1 stream 8 channels (layout as above) - Note NOT 7.1
2 streams, one with 2 channels, one with 6 channels
8 streams, 1 channel each in the layout above
ATMOS
Input - ADF or DAMF
Output - DD+ with JOC in an MP4
Please refer to this link on file formats that are accepted by the Viewing Platform.
HDR Requirements:
SUPPORTED FORMATS
As described here, the input video files should be high-quality masters or mezzanines carrying properly color-graded HDR visual content and provided with all necessary metadata needed to describe HDR format being used.
Dolby Vision (DV)
To encode Dolby Vision output a Dolby Vision Mezzanine file is required as source. There are two common types of a Dolby Vision Mezzanine:
Dolby Vision MXF: A Dolby Vision MXF deliverable contains a J2K-MXF video track. It can have the Dolby Vision metadata interleaved or provided as a separate XML file
ProRes 422/422 HQ/4444/4444XQ with sidecar XML metadata file
HDR10, HLG
Source Video Parameters:
| Resolutions | 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p |
| Frame Rate | 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 48, 50, 59.94, 60 |
| Color depth | 10 bits |
| Color space | Rec:2020 |
Container Encoding:
| MOV/QuickTime MP4 MKV | H.265 10+ bit ProRes 422/422 HQ DNxHR HQX |
UNSUPPORTED FORMATS
HDR10 Plus
PQ10 (ST.2084 Perceptive Quantizer - HDR10 without the metadata)
HDR by Technicolor (SL-HDR1, 2 and 3)
VESA DisplayHDR
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
bitmovin.com/4k-hdr-dolby-vision-content
Closed Caption & Subtitles
Please refer to the following table for guidance on supported formats.
| Streaming Format | Subtitle/CC |
|---|---|
| MPEG-DASH | WebVTT |
| HLS | WebVTT |
| MPEG-DASH | SCC |
| HLS | SCC |
updated 4.13.21
