Azure Media Services Transform Builder

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Build Media Services transform configs with encoding presets, H.264 video layers, AAC audio, and thumbnail generation.

Azure Media Services Configuration

Build Media Services transform configs with encoding presets, H.264 video layers, AAC audio, thumbnail generation, and streaming policies.

Required Fields

accountNametransformNameoutputsoutputs[0].preset

{
  "accountName": "ams-contoso-prod",
  "resourceGroup": "rg-media",
  "location": "eastus2",
  "transformName": "AdaptiveStreaming-Transform",
  "description": "Transform for adaptive bitrate streaming with thumbnail generation.",
  "outputs": [
    {
      "preset": {
        "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Media.BuiltInStandardEncoderPreset",
        "presetName": "AdaptiveStreaming",
        "configurations": {
          "interleaveOutput": "InterleavedOutput",
          "complexity": "Balanced"
        }
      },
      "onError": "StopProcessingJob",
      "relativePriority": "Normal"
    },
    {
      "preset": {
        "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Media.StandardEncoderPreset",
        "codecs": [
          {
            "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Media.H264Video",
            "keyFrameInterval": "PT2S",
            "complexity": "Balanced",
            "layers": [
              {
                "width": "1920",
                "height": "1080",
                "bitrate": 6000000,
                "label": "HD-1080p"
              },
              {
                "width": "1280",
                "height": "720",
                "bitrate": 3500000,
                "label": "HD-720p"
              },
              {
                "width": "854",
                "height": "480",
                "bitrate": 1800000,
                "label": "SD-480p"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Media.AacAudio",
            "channels": 2,
            "samplingRate": 48000,
            "bitrate": 128000,
            "profile": "AacLc"
          },
          {
            "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Media.JpgImage",
            "start": "25%",
            "step": "25%",
            "range": "80%",
            "layers": [
              {
                "width": "640",
                "height": "360",
                "quality": 90,
                "label": "Thumbnail"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "formats": [
          {
            "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Media.Mp4Format",
            "filenamePattern": "Video-{Basename}-{Label}-{Bitrate}{Extension}"
          },
          {
            "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Media.JpgFormat",
            "filenamePattern": "Thumbnail-{Basename}-{Index}{Extension}"
          }
        ]
      },
      "onError": "ContinueJob",
      "relativePriority": "Low"
    }
  ],
  "streamingPolicy": {
    "name": "Predefined_ClearStreamingOnly",
    "drm": null
  },
  "streamingLocator": {
    "assetName": "output-adaptive-{uniqueId}",
    "streamingPolicyName": "Predefined_ClearStreamingOnly",
    "filters": ["first-30-seconds"]
  }
}

Generated Output

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Overview

Build Media Services transform configs with encoding presets, H.264 video layers, AAC audio, and thumbnail generation. This tool helps Azure engineers generate valid configurations quickly without consulting documentation, reducing errors and accelerating infrastructure deployment. All processing runs in your browser with no data sent to external servers.

How Engineers Use This

•Producing a Media Services Transform starting point for a new service that follows the Azure reference architecture rather than copy-paste from another team's repo.
•Comparing two candidate Media Services Transform layouts side by side to pick the one with the cleaner permission boundary.
•Generating a Media Services Transform starting point for an Azure Well-Architected Framework review where the reviewer wants to see baseline configs.
•Drafting a Media Services Transform change for an Azure Bicep or Terraform module before raising the pull request, so reviewers can see intent in plain text.

Questions & Answers

Can I use this Media Services Transform builder for Azure Government or sovereign clouds?

Most Media Services Transform primitives behave the same across commercial, Government, and other sovereign Azure clouds, but the endpoints, available regions, and a handful of services differ. The output is portable in terms of resource shape; you must verify service availability and adjust endpoints when targeting a sovereign cloud.

Will the output of this Media Services Transform builder pass `az deployment validate` or `terraform validate`?

It produces structurally valid output for the Azure schemas it supports. We still recommend running provider validation locally before applying — schemas evolve and a recently-released property may not yet be reflected. When validation does fail, the error message points at the exact attribute the schema rejected.

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