Is there a way to configure the pixel format using AWS MediaConvert?

Question

I'm looking at moving some transcoding jobs from ffmpeg to AWS MediaConvert and one of the ffmpeg options that I use is -px_fmt yuv420p. What is the equivalent in MediaConvert?

I couldn't find any settings relating to pixel format or chroma subsampling.

Answer 1

Have a look at the MediaConvert API reference guide here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/mediaconvert/latest/apireference/mediaconvert-api.pdf#getting-started

and have a search for 'chroma subsampling'. The available settings vary by input and output file type.

The settings for 'colorSpaceConversion' allow you to specify the color space you want for each output.