Reduce costs
Lower bandwidth and storage expenses without compromising quality.
Select multiple files
Add source videos by entering URLs manually, uploading a CSV or TXT file with one URL per row, or uploading files from your computer.
Bulk Encoding
Transcode thousands of videos in parallel without managing infrastructure.
Overview
What It Is
Bulk encoding lets you submit hundreds or thousands of video transcoding jobs simultaneously and process them in parallel across Qencode's distributed infrastructure. Instead of building and maintaining your own queue systems or provisioning VMs, you send a batch request and let Qencode handle the compute scaling, resource allocation, and monitoring.
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Process
How It Works
Configure transcoding settings
Choose destination, formats, codecs, resolutions, and other output settings, or apply a saved template to the whole batch.Set unique output paths
Enter a separate output path and filename for each source file to prevent transcoded outputs from overwriting each other.Launch the batch
Click Launch Transcoding to start the bulk encoding workflow.Parallel processing
Your videos are launched as separate transcoding jobs and processed simultaneously through Qencode.Monitor job progress
Track each file in the Transcoding Jobs window as its status changes from uploading to transcoding started.Retrieve outputs
Review each completed file in Job History and access the transcoded outputs from the configured destination.
Overview
Why Bulk Encoding
Save time
Automate complex processing that would take hours manually.
Scale effortlessly
Handle thousands of videos with the same API call.
Integrate in minutes
Simple REST API with comprehensive SDKs and documentation.
Use Cases
Who Uses Bulk Encoding
VOD Platforms
ScenarioA Netflix-style platform needs to ingest a new 500-video content drop. Manual encoding would take days and require spinning up hundreds of encoding instances.
Bulk encoding processes all 500 videos in hours, reducing time-to-market by 80% and avoiding infrastructure overhead of $50,000+ per week.
UGC Platforms
ScenarioA user-generated content platform receives 10,000 uploads daily in mixed formats and resolutions. Each needs HLS and DASH variants for playback compatibility.
Automatic parallel processing handles the entire daily volume without queue backlog, keeping platform latency under 2 hours from upload to playable.
Enterprise
ScenarioA corporate media hub ingests training videos, town halls, and announcements across multiple departments. Each requires compliance transcoding to specific bitrate and codec standards.
Bulk encoding ensures all content meets security and accessibility standards within SLA, with audit logs for every transcoded video.
Tutorial
How to use Bulk Encoding
Watch a quick walkthrough showing how to configure and use Bulk Encoding through the Qencode dashboard.
Tutorial Video Coming Soon
For Developers
Technical Reference
| Workflow Type | Portal UI workflow. Bulk Encoding is documented as a Qencode Transcoding UI feature, not as a separate batch API endpoint. |
| Setup Requirements | Qencode account, project API key, source files or source URLs, selected template or transcoding settings, output format settings, destination, and unique output path per source file. |
| Source Input Methods | Enter URLs manually, upload a CSV/TXT list of URLs with one URL per row, or upload multiple files from your computer. |
| Supported Input Formats | Any video format — MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, HLS, WebM, and 200+ others |
| Supported Output Settings | Standard Qencode transcoding outputs selected in the UI, based on the chosen formats, codecs, resolutions, and templates. |
| Output Path Rules | Each source needs its own unique output path and filename to avoid overwriting files. Each file appears as a separate job in Job History. |
Pricing
What It Costs
Included with Transcoding
Bulk Encoding is available for all Qencode users. There is no separate fee for using bulk input; pricing is based on the standard transcoding usage for each source file processed.
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