Content Delivery Guidelines

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Content Delivery Guidelines

This page contains guidelines and requirements for ingesting your assets into Frequency Studio. In order to successfully onboard your content, Frequency requires that information and specifications from the following areas are met:

Video Specifications - Ensure that source video specifications meet the minimum requirements for Frequency's platform in order for proper indexing and distribution
Content Delivery - Ingesting content into Frequency's platform using the supported methods for delivering video and related metadata

All questions about onboarding should be sent to your account manager or to operations@frequency.com.

Video Specifications

To prepare video to be compatible with Frequency's platform, the following video specifications must be followed. The specifications allows for video quality consistency, video technical metadata, and ultimately impacts video's ability for distribution.

Required Video Specifications

Item	Specifications
Video File Extensions	Accepted: mp4, avi, mov, mpg, mxf, mkv
Video Resolution	2160p (4K) 1080p 1080i 720p
Video Codec / Profile	Preferred: H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC) Accepted: HD422, Apple ProRes 422, Apple ProRes 444
Video Bitrate	1080p: 6 Mbps (Min), 102 Mbps (Max) 720p: 4 Mbps (Min), 102 Mbps (Max)
Video Frame Rate	Accepted: 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.96, 60
Video Aspect Ratio	Preferred: 16:9
Key Frame Interval	≤ 8 seconds
Audio Codec	AAC, AC3 - 16-bit 44.1 Khz / 48 Khz
Audio Bitrate	≥ 128 Kbps
Audio Channels	Preferred: 2.0 Stereo
Thumbnail	File extensions: png, jpg Minimum resolution: 1280x720, 72dpi
Closed Captions	Sidecar: srt, scc, vtt, stl, smi, ttml Embedded: CEA-608/708

Required Video Metadata

Item	Specifications
Title	Maximum: 255 characters
Description	Preferred: 110 characters for some distributors Maximum: 16,777,215 (2²⁴ - 1) characters
Genre	Must map category to values found in Genres and Subgenres or the video will be rejected Talk to your account manager if additional genres are required

Optional Video Metadata

There is a host of optional metadata that can supplement your content. Additional metadata is used to expand the possibility of distributor product implementations. You can find details in our Metadata Specifications.

Content Delivery

Frequency can ingest assets from multiple sources of ingestion including MRSS, SFTP, S3, Dropbox, as well as manual uploads. The preferred mechanism is for content partners to deliver content to Frequency via MRSS feeds. Please visit the respective pages for details on integrating with Frequency.

Delivery Type	Deliverables	Example
MRSS Ingestion	Standard MRSS Feed with available assets, thumbnails and metadata associated per item	Sample Feed
SFTP Ingestion	SSH public key Video assets Thumbnails Metadata file	P2JV5wbl3xjQ1R0fuVla manifest.csv
S3 Ingestion	S3/Access Key and Secret Video assets Thumbnails Metadata file	video.mp4 manifest.csv

Delivery Type

Deliverables

Example

MRSS Ingestion