Your transcoding and QA, handled.
Same broadcast quality, a fraction of the cost.
Transcoding and QA are essential, relentless, and expensive to run well. Every title has to be converted into every format, on every device, and checked until it is flawless — and the team, tooling, and infrastructure that takes is a standing cost most studios would rather not carry.
Arcadian does it for you. We take your content and deliver broadcast-grade video and audio in every format you need, built to your exact specifications and quality-checked before it ever reaches your audience. You set the standard. We meet it — at lower cost than running the operation yourself, and without you adding headcount or hardware.
Two ways to hand it off.
Both built around your specifications.
You decide how much you keep in-house. Either way, the work runs to the codecs, resolutions, packaging, and delivery targets you define.
Integrated into your supply chain
We slot into the pipeline you already run — your asset management, your delivery endpoints, your toolchain — and take ownership of the transcoding and QA stages so your team stays focused on everything else.
Fully managed, end to end
Or hand us the files and nothing else. Give us your source video and your spec, and we run the entire transcoding and QA process ourselves, returning finished, verified deliverables ready to publish.
A full transcoding and QA service,
built to support the entire media lifecycle.
Consultation & Workflow Design
We capture your requirements — codecs, resolutions, packaging formats, delivery targets — and design a transcoding and QA workflow aligned to exactly how you distribute. Your spec drives everything we build.
Transcoding & Packaging
Optimized video and audio in all industry-standard formats — H.264, HEVC, AV1, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos — packaged and ready for streaming delivery across every platform and device.
Automated & Human-Verified QA
We automate as much testing as possible to move at volume, then put highly trained QA specialists at the end of the line as the final arbiters of quality. Software flags the obvious; people catch the artifact, the sync drift, and the compliance error automation misses. Nothing ships until a person signs off.
Caption, Subtitle & Audio-Track Handling
We package, sync, and verify the caption, subtitle, and multi-language audio assets you supply — so your tracks line up, conform to spec, and meet accessibility requirements in every market you serve.
Ongoing Support & Optimization
Standards and requirements change. We adjust as they do, so your deliverables always meet current specs.
Done your way —
and engineered to cost less.
No two clients are alike, so we don't run a one-size pipeline. We tailor the transcoding and QA workflow to your distribution model and your specifications, whether you operate at studio scale, run a streaming platform, or manage a smaller catalog.
Cost is where we earn the engagement. Because this is what we do all day, we run it more efficiently than an in-house team built for it part-time — and we deploy modern, power-efficient infrastructure, including purpose-built VPU transcoding, where it lowers the cost without touching quality. That efficiency is ours to engineer, not a requirement we impose on you. The result is the same broadcast-grade output, delivered for less.
What partnering with Arcadian gives you.
Same Quality, Lower Cost
Broadcast-grade output — all major codecs, resolutions up to 8K HDR, immersive audio — delivered for less than building and staffing the operation in-house.
Built to Your Specification
Your codecs, your formats, your delivery targets. We run the process exactly the way you define it.
Human-Verified Quality
Automation accelerates throughput; expert reviewers make the final call — so nothing reaches your audience unchecked.
Proven at Scale
Capacity that flexes to peak demand across tens of thousands of titles, including five years and 150,000+ hours delivered for Sony Pictures.
Hand us the hard part.
Tell us how you need your content delivered, and we'll handle the transcoding and QA — to your spec, at broadcast quality, for less. Plug us into your pipeline or hand us the files. Either way, your team gets the time back.