Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to coordinate control of bitrates among multiple computing devices employed in parallel to transcode portions of a motion video. A device to coordinate parallel video transcoding includes a processor component; and a monitoring component for execution by the processor component to determine whether a total current bitrate remains within a target range of bitrates to transcode multiple segments of an original video data using multiple slave devices in parallel to generate a transcoded video data, the total current bitrate comprising a sum of current bitrates of video compression performed by the multiple slave devices in transcoding the multiple segments. Other embodiments are described and claimed.