Technicals
How big of a file can I load?
Files up to 5TB in size can be uploaded - but we hope (for your sake) that you aren’t handling 5 terabyte files! Since a 1 gigabyte file represents about an hour of standard resolution video, 5,000 gigabytes would be a very big file indeed.
What file types are supported?
Scout PD supports:
Video (see questions 3, 4)
Audio (MP4, MP3, WAV, FLAC, WAV, AMR, AMR-WB, OGG, WebM)
Images (JPG/JPEG, PNG, HEIF/HEIC, GIF, BMP, SVG)
PDF
Text (.txt)
Zip
What video containers (file formats) does Scout PD support?
Scout PD supports eighteen (18) different file types:
3G2
3GP/3GPP
ASF (Advanced Systems Format)
AVI
Adobe Flash
Genetec (G64x, G64)
HLS (MPEG-2 TS segments)
IMF (Interoperable Master Format)
Matroska
MOV (Quicktime)
MPEG-PS (Program Stream)
MPEG-TS (Transport Stream)
MPEG-SS (System Stream)
MP4
MXF (Material eXchange Format)
no container
WebM
WMV (Windows Media Video)
*Media Container = video format (video codec) + audio format (audio codec) + subtitle.
What video formats (codecs) does Scout PD support?
Scout PD supports thirty-one (31) different codecs:
Apple ProRes
AVC (H.264)
AVC Intra 50/100
Canopus HQ
DivX/Xvid
DNxHD
DV/DVCPRO
DV25
DV50
DVCPro HD
Flash 9 File
H.261
H.262
H.263
H.264
HEVC (H.265)
JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000 (J2K)
MJPEG
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4 part 2
Panasonic P2
PCM
QuickTime Animation (RLE)
SonyXDCam
SonyXDCam MPEG-4 Proxy
Uncompressed
VC-1
VP8
VP9
*Media Container/File contains a video format (video codec) + audio format (audio codec) + subtitle.
What is the min/max frames per second (FPS) that Scout PD supports?
The minimum frame rate is 5 fps and there is no maximum.
How long of a video can I analyze?
Videos up to 6 hours in length and up to 10GB in size can be analyzed with computer vision.
How long of an audio file can I auto-transcribe?
Audio up to 4 hours in length can be transcribed.
What languages are supported for transcription?
Gulf Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic
Chinese Mandarin (Mainland)
Dutch
Australian English*
British English*
Indian English
Irish English
Scottish English
US English*
Welsh English
Spanish
US Spanish*
French*
Canadian French*
Farsi
German
Swiss German
Hebrew
Indian Hindi
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Malay
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Tamil
Telugu
Turkish
translation supported for 987 language pairs
*supports streaming real-time transcription