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Pricing
There is a charge for running a channel that has the Smart Subtitles feature enabled. The charge is applied to each pipeline, which means that it applies once in single-pipeline channels and twice in standard channels.
To stop this charge, you must disable the feature. For information about the
current rates for using this feature, see Elemental Inference
pricing
Supported languages
Smart Subtitles supports the following languages:
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eng– English -
spa– Spanish -
fra– French -
deu– German -
ita– Italian -
por– Portuguese
Source requirements
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Input type: All supported input types.
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Audio codec: AAC
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Smart Subtitles supports a single audio track only.
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The source must contain audio in one of the supported languages.
Output requirements
Smart Subtitles generates subtitles in the following formats:
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TTML – Supported as a sidecar in MediaPackage V2, CMAF Ingest, and Microsoft Smooth output groups.
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WebVTT – Supported as a sidecar in HLS and MediaPackage output groups.
Important
When outputting subtitles, you must create a separate captions-only output within your output group specifically for the subtitles. The subtitle output should contain only the captions encode, with no video or audio encodes. For detailed instructions on creating a sidecar captions output, see Create sidecar or SMPTE-TT captions encodes.
