Technicals

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. How long of an audio file can I auto-transcribe?

    Audio up to 4 hours in length can be transcribed.

  8. 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