Five stages, one job ID. Submit a file, the master chunks it on scene boundaries, the fleet encodes in parallel, and every chunk is verified before it ships.
Deterministic output. The same source and preset produce a byte-identical result whether one worker ran it or forty.
Point the web console, the API, or a watch folder at a source. The master probes it, validates it against the preset's source rules, and returns a job before the first chunk is cut.
$ curl -X POST https://master.studio.local:7443/jobs \
-d '{"source_uri": "/vol/clip.mov",
"preset_id": "youtube-4k-h264"}'
→ 201 created · 235 chunks plannedA scene-detect pass finds real cut points, then chunks are merged toward a target duration. Boundaries land where the encoder was going to insert a keyframe anyway — so no seams, no re-encode penalty.
The scheduler matches each chunk to a worker that can actually encode it — right codec, right accelerator, right FFmpeg build. Slow workers get fewer chunks. Dead workers get their work reassigned.
Each worker runs a plain FFmpeg invocation you can read, copy, and debug. Progress streams back frame by frame — fps, bitrate, speed — so a job's state is never a guess.
frame= 14260 fps=184 q=23.0
bitrate=14723kbits/s speed=2.41xEvery chunk is decoded and checksummed before concat. If a chunk drifts, it's re-encoded — not shipped. The finished master lands in your output directory with a manifest of exactly how it was made.
The same master and fleet serve a self-contained post house, a tracking-system pipeline, and an editorial round-trip. Pick the entry point that matches the way you already work.
Watch folders auto-submit whatever lands in them, one-click ingest turns a shot into its masters, dailies and references, and reviewers approve or reject against a scrubbable preview — slates and burn-ins included. Every deliverable ships with its verification evidence. No ShotGrid required; the console is the pipeline.
A Flow Production Tracking event triggers ingest on its own: the project resolves to an ingest profile — handles, OCIO colour, EXR codec, preset bundle, slate and burn-in templates — and every shot lands as versioned masters, dailies and references, tracked shot by shot beside the same review queue and QC evidence.
Editorial proxies matched to Avid, Premiere, Final Cut and Resolve; a Resolve reattach kit beside every proxy; a Hiero or OTIO timeline exploding into one job per clip; markers and chapters that survive the encode; chunking that aligns to your EDL's cuts. In development: a full Resolve round-trip — submit from the timeline, relink automatically.
Install the master, join a worker, submit a job. Self-hosted and free to run on hardware you already own.