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Description
What you would like to accomplish: I would like to be able to submit Transcoder API jobs for videos less than 5 seconds long, which is currently not permitted. Ideally, I would like to be able to have videos as short as 1 second.
How this might work: I understand that there may be a cost concern with the internal data transfer, job setup, etc, that the current pricing model would fall short with. If the cost to Google is the concern, then perhaps a different model would make sense. For example, instead of charging only per minute of outputted video, Google could slightly reduce those rates and then add a new SKU that would add a small flat cost to each job ran, that would roughly balance out the average cost before and after the change.
For example:
$0.03/minute->$0.029/minute + $0.005/jobA 3 second video before would cost
$0.03 * 3 / 60 = $0.0015.The same video after would cost
$0.029 * 3 / 60 + $0.005 = $0.00645.A 5 minute video before would cost
$0.03 * 5 = $0.15.The same video after would cost
$0.029 * 5 + $0.005 = $0.15.Just an example in case the current pricing model is what is preventing Google from supporting very short videos.
If applicable, reasons why alternative solutions are not sufficient: We have to do our own transcoding for videos shorter than 5 seconds, and we'd rather unify our pipeline if possible.
Other information (workarounds you have tried, documentation consulted, etc):https://cloud.google.com/transcoder/docs/reference/rest/v1/JobConfig#input