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About sessions

Before you can encode, you must set up an encoding session. As part of setting up the session, you must do the following:

In addition, you should check compression and quality settings before you encode. Default settings are applied, but it may be necessary to adjust the settings to meet your needs. For example, if you are planning to distribute your content for download-and-play on a computer, you may want to use quality-based VBR encoding and set the video and audio quality level to the highest possible.

After you have identified the source of your content and specified the output, you have a number of options for customizing a session. For example, you can apply preprocessing filters to improve the quality of the encoded content.

After configuring the session to meet your needs, you can start encoding. If you want to run the same session again, you can save the session to a session file either before or after you encode.

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