Flix Cloud

Transition Documentation

Switching from Flix Cloud to Zencoder is easy.

Switching to Zencoder: The abbreviated way

• Step 1. Authorize the transition of your account from Flix Cloud to Zencoder in the Flix Cloud dashboard. Keep in mind that Zencoder is a third-party service that is independent from Flix Cloud, so you’ll be creating a new account at Zencoder and agreeing to the Zencoder terms of use. Authorizing this transition will result in the transfer of all of your recipes and account settings to Zencoder.
• Step 2. Update your API key and change your API url from https://flix-cloud.com/api/jobs to https://app.zencoder.com/api/flix-cloud/jobs.
• Step 3. You may need to grant read and write permission on your S3 buckets to aws@zencoder.com.

That’s it. If you choose the abbreviated approach, most jobs will work the same as they did before (or better, in many cases). We’ll translate your Flix Cloud options to Zencoder options, and keep encoding as before.

This works because we’ve added support for the Flix Cloud API at https://app.zencoder.com/api/flix-cloud (our base API is at https://app.zencoder.com/api). You can send your old Flix Cloud API requests to this URL, and Zencoder will know what to do.

If you need to change your requests, or want to take advantage of the many features that Zencoder has that Flix Cloud doesn’t, you’ll need to use Zencoder API calls. The Zencoder API is pretty simple, and is conceptually quite similar to Flix Cloud, though there are some differences and some new features.

Note: Use of the Flix Cloud API may be deprecated in the future.

Switching to Zencoder: The complete way

To completely switch to Zencoder, you’ll need to create new API requests using Zencoder options. Our handy API builder and API docs tell you everything you need to know. We also have integration libraries ready for Ruby and PHP (and more are on the way). Notice that instead of sending the requests to https://app.zencoder.com/api/flixcloud/jobs, you’ll just send them to https://app.zencoder.com/api/jobs.

See our documentation and our API guide for full information on switching to Zencoder.