Create Video Derivatives

A derivative is a variation of the original asset either an image or video asset. Very often a derivative is a smaller version of the original asset.  Derivatives can be implemented into external websites and systems. Using smaller versions instead of high-quality files makes your videos load faster and will improve the end-user experience. Setting up derivatives can also be a huge time saver since all the variations and modifications can be automatically made in your Bynder portal during upload. Users will no longer have to download the files first, to then edit and re-upload them.

You can set up your permission to allow users to download derivatives and/or the original file.

Default Video Derivative

The default video derivative is used for preview playback in Bynder. By default, the maximum video quality for video previews is 720p for the Asset Bank, however, 480p, 1080p are also possible.

For video previews in Workflow, the default video quality is 1080p. The default video quality in Workflow cannot be adjusted. If you want to change the resolution of video previews to 480p or 1080p, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

Custom Video Derivative

If you want to enable custom video derivatives please contact your Customer Success Manager.

We support the following video derivative output formats and codec combinations:

  • MP4 (H.264 / AAC)

  • WebM (VP9 / Ogg Vorbis audio)

Supported settings customisation:

  • Dimensions of the video derivative:
    • keep original dimensions
    • set width and/or height in pixels (maximum value: 4096 x 4096 px)
      Note: "Long side" is not available as configuration option.
  • Automatic resizing or crop of the video based on set dimensions: 
    • if one of the two dimensions is adjusted and crop is not selected, then the video resizes to the max width/height selected (aspect ratio will be respected)
    • if crop is selected, the video will be cropped to the set size (aspect ratio not respected)
  • Quality of the video as Variable Bit Rate or Constant Bit Rate:
    • VBR:
      • supported values: 0-100% (recommended setting: 80%)
      • applies to both video and audio
    • CBR:
      • Video: from 16 to 62,000 kbit
      • Audio: from 32 to 320kbit
  • Video derivatives can be made publicly available

Please note:

  • Derivative Name/Prefix does not allow spaces or special characters
  • Frame rate, sample rate etc. are automatic based on the input file and cannot be adjusted

 

Manual Derivatives

The manual derivative feature allows you to make customizations outside of Bynder and then easily upload them back to Bynder as a manual derivative. 

Watermarked Derivatives

You can apply a watermark to your video derivatives to protect your assets used on external sites.  

Storage

Both image and video derivatives are stored in your portal and, therefore, count toward your storage

Recommended Image Derivative Sizes

Normally, we advise the image derivatives to be the following:

For videos, we recommend the following:

  • Original

  • Large (MP4 at 1920 x1080)

Read more about all the supported output file formats here.

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