Every title ready for every screen, for your release workflow.
silken takes whatever the distributor sends and returns the versions your apps and TVs play, in a picture your viewers notice, written into your own storage. It plugs into the way you work today, so titles go out sooner and your team stops fixing files.
A free test on your own files · or book a meeting
What changes for your business.
Titles ready to publish
Whatever the distributor sends goes through, with the Fast tier when a release window is tight; unusual masters are set up with you during onboarding. Fewer files go back, fewer releases slip.
When it matters A new licence deal, a release-window peak, festival season.
HDR, 4K and advanced colour, done right
Premium titles look premium on new TVs, and HDR titles still look right on older ones, shaped by our proprietary power features under your control.
When it matters New 4K and HDR licences; viewers on older TVs complaining.
A catalogue refresh in bulk
A whole back catalogue ingested at high speed for a new device, market or quality standard, with capacity ready now.
When it matters A new device launch, a new market, an encoder reaching end of support.
Nothing to replace.
- Distributor file
- your storage
- silken
- your storage
- your apps, players and delivery
Mezzanine in, renditions to your spec, feeding your origin or packager. Your storage, apps, copy protection and delivery stay as they are, and your team keeps its tools.
Your delivery spec, met per title.
The detail your engineers will ask about. Every line is set up with them against your ladder spec and your device matrix during the test.
- Versions
- Every rung of your ladder in H.264 up to 4K or in AV1, to your naming, with H.264 fallback rungs selected explicitly. HEVC file recipes depend on live worker qualification.
- Packaging
- HLS for your origin or packager, or plain files if your packager does the rest; DASH/CMAF when live job options admit it.
- Protection
- DRM (SPEKE v2, CENC cbcs) is enabled per account with your own key server; ask us to switch it on.
- Extras
- Captions, loudness normalisation and extra audio languages depend on live worker qualification. Posters, thumbnail galleries and scrub previews help viewers find their next scene, included with Standard and Fast jobs.
Availability follows your account’s live job options and qualified worker capabilities.
An HDR title still needs an SDR version.
Retail platforms ask for the SDR alongside the HDR, and older TVs in your device matrix only play SDR. When a title arrives HDR-only, silken makes the SDR version as a ladder of SDR renditions, with controls your engineers tune per title, so nobody sees a washed-out fallback.
“All HDR deliveries must include a separate, standard dynamic range (SDR) source in the same resolution as the HDR source.”
Judge it on your own titles.
A pilot runs on your masters, in your bucket, against checks you write down first. Nothing in your delivery path changes until it passes.
- 01Pick three titles
Ones that represent the catalogue: an HDR feature, a dark drama, a fast animation title.
- 02Send your ladder spec
The rungs, codecs and naming your origin expects, and the devices in your matrix.
- 03Compare cost per title
Outputs, turnaround and the whole-job cost per title next to what you pay today: pay for delivered versions only, with no input fee, storage or egress line from silken.
Questions
Can silken feed our origin or packager?
Yes. Renditions to your ladder spec land in your storage for your JIT origin or packager to pick up unchanged, so your DRM provider, CDN and player stay as they are.
What about HDR titles for SDR audiences?
HDR10 and HLG masters can produce SDR rungs, with tone controls you set per title. HDR10 and HLG can also stay HDR in HEVC Main10 versions alongside SDR versions in one HLS ladder, at the HEVC price.
How do we evaluate it?
Book a pilot on a handful of your own titles with agreed acceptance checks: outputs, picture, turnaround and the full job price.
Send us your hardest files.
Send us 3-5 titles, including the ones that get bounced today, and we match them to your current versions. We agree the results date after engineering confirms capacity. You judge the picture on your own TVs and see the hours per title, the failures and the cost per title. Free within the standard scope.