Video Toolkit
Need to prepare VOD files in a hurry?
Our Video Toolkit service rapidly transforms your stellar content library into ready-to-stream DRM-enabled formats. We help you focus on what matters: getting your content to market fast and affordably.
Harness cloud power
Instead of maintaining software and dedicated hardware, we’ll handle video preparation for you. Popular tools are ready as cloud services with complete configuration.
- FFmpeg
- Bento4
- Shaka Packager
- Py-caption
- Unified Packager
Ready to work with your flow
With our simple API you can add powerful content processing automation to your over the top (OTT) workflow.
Encode / transcode
Encrypt
Package
Subtitle conversion
Transmux
Watermarking
Studio security
We’ve put security in place along the entire workflow route to satisfy studios. Your content is encrypted during transfer, while processing, and as the output file-set.

Super secure
Video Toolkit has received the Farncombe Security Audit® mark from Cartesian’s extensive review of our service.
Key control
During encryption you can have keys easily managed with our DRMtoday licensing service or your own DRM solution.
Forensic watermarking
Studios require enhanced security for UHD and HDR media. Session-based forensic watermarking fulfills this by identifying nasty thieves down to the user level.
A/B for OTT
- Deploy directly on an origin server or your CDN
Bitstream manipulation for IFE
- Local server option lets watermarking be applied securely on-prem and on-the-fly
- No need for duplicate streams
Scalable speeds for your needs
Our multi-region AWS servers run lightning fast to minimize your content turnaround time.

Control those costs
Pay only for what you need. Our cloud service is low-cost and ideal for variable demand.
Your content is compatible
Video Toolkit supports over 100 video/audio codecs and formats. No matter how your assets are stored, we’ll get them ready for OTT.
Supported inputs & outputs | |
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Packaging | CMAF, MPEG-DASH, Smooth Streaming, HLS, CSF |
Container formats | ISO-BMFF (fMP4), WebM, MPEG2-TS, MOV, MXF, IMF, and more… |
Encryption | Common Encryption, Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay Streaming, WisePlay, CMLA-OMA |
Encryption modes | All modes defined in CENC v3 (CTR, CBC) |
Multi-key
For example: Different keys per resolution and audio track
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Video codecs | H.265 (HEVC), H.264 (AVC), VP9, AV1 |
Audio codecs | AAC, DTS, Dolby AC3/EAC3, and more… |
Subtitles | TTML (SMPTE-TT, DFXP, IMSC), WebVTT, SRT, and more… |
Resolutions | SD, HD, UHD/4K + |
60fps | |
HDR | HDR10+ compliant, Dolby Vision |
Source | AWS S3, FTP, HTTP/HTTPS |
Destinations | AWS S3 |
Forensic watermarking | Session-based |
Third-party encodes as inputs | |
Workflow definition | JSON REST API |
View our online documentation to learn more.
Example workflows

From OTT to IFE, our team’s ready to help you with custom workflows for fast and efficient processing.
- Want a custom tool? We can load it in the cloud for you. Just let us know!
- Want a cloud tool available on-prem? We can adapt it for you!