Issue Nº.001 — Spring 2026
Cloud Transcoding Quarterly
Vol. 7 / Changelog
— Changelog

What shipped,
and when.

Dated, newest first, and only real dates — the same standard the product holds its verification evidence to.

Studio Plus goes unlimited

The plan ladder is restructured around roughly $10 per worker per month: Team at $29 / $59 / $99 for 2 / 5 / 10 workers, Studio 25 at $249, Studio 50 at $479 with a second master — and Studio Plus drops its worker cap entirely, carries three master activations, and adds Slack support on a 3-hour SLA.

Downloads by platform

The account dashboard groups software downloads by operating system and adds the Linux worker build alongside Windows and macOS.

Operations documented

New docs volumes for running the product: backups and restore, correctness and QC verification, metrics, logs, and the delivery report — with console screenshots throughout.

Signed download links

Builds are never on a public URL: the Software card signs a short-lived CloudFront link per download click.

Client Review ships

The review & approval platform lands: scrubbable previews on your own master, approve/reject gates with comments, and per-deliverable sign-off before anything ships. Sold à la carte at $29/mo on any paid plan.

Self-service accounts and billing

The license service grows a customer surface: create an account, get Solo provisioned free, pick a paid plan through Stripe's hosted checkout, and manage or cancel it from the dashboard — no sales call anywhere in the loop.

Localization delivery

Declare dubs and subtitles per market, encode the picture once, and mux every territory from it — with per-territory conformance evidence attached after the run.

VFX ingest: EXR, OCIO/ACES, Flow

Plate sequences ingest through per-project profiles — handles, colour, codec, slates — and a ShotGrid / Flow Production Tracking event can trigger the whole thing: one shot becomes its master, dailies and references, versioned automatically.

The verification pass

Every finished job starts shipping with evidence: quality metrics (PSNR, SSIM, VMAF), timing audit, audio truth, fixity and lineage — the system that grows into today's 11 verifiers.

The pipeline takes shape

The first week of the codebase: the preset library, studio ingest, the NLE round-trip and watch folders all land beside the core master–worker scheduler. Scene-aware chunking and deterministic output are design goals from day one.