As an addendum for everyone else, the ET team has been super helpful, and is much more active in their support forums than most of the other AWS teams. These guys seem eager to earn your business, and have iterated quickly.
Big thanks goes to them for moving fast, getting involved, and acting [quickly] on user feedback.
I don't know how I managed to miss that, but thanks for pointing this out. The bitrate and framerate settings plus this have us sitting pretty for using Elastic Transcoder now. Exciting stuff!
Big thanks goes to them for moving fast, getting involved, and acting [quickly] on user feedback.