Digital Asset Management
Cloudinary Video: Manage and deliver video at scale
Last updated: Jan-29-2025
Overview
Cloudinary Video provides a wide range of robust and versatile APIs and developer tools plus UI-based features for efficient video management and delivery. Upload, store, transform, and deliver videos across various devices and platforms, ensuring high-quality accessible playback and optimal performance for video assets.
With Cloudinary Video you can easily take advantage of functionality for a variety of video types which can be broken down into three categories:
| Description | Use cases | |
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| Short form | Short duration and designed to capture the attention of the user or showcase a product or feature. Consider optimizing performance and providing an impressive visual appearance. |
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| Long form | Longer in duration and a wider variety of use-cases. Consider the handling of uploads and optimizing delivery by using adaptive bitrate streaming. |
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| Live streaming | Mechanism for streaming your own video out live to your users, can be simulcast via other platforms such as YouTube. |
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Get started
Before getting started with any of the video features, make sure you've signed up for an account and configured your product environment as outlined in our onboarding guide.
We also recommend taking a look at our video best practices guide to better understand how to really take advantage of Cloudinary's video features.
If you want to jump straight into coding, our SDK quick starts provide step-by-step code snippets that help you get an end-to-end project up and running, from initial SDK setup through delivering optimized and transformed media in 5 minutes or less! You'll be working with images here but once set up, it's easy to move onto video.
For those looking to upload, manage, share and create videos from our UI, head to the Video hub to get you started.
Otherwise, keep reading this page to see our top video links, demos, explorers and video tutorials.
Top links
- Many of Cloudinary's APIs default to
imageas the resource type. When running these APIs for videos, remember to explicitly set theresource_typetovideo. - When using automatic format selection for videos, we recommend using
f_auto:videoto ensure a video is always delivered, even when no file extension is supplied. - The Video player studio allows you to easily create, share or embed a video player with a video of your choice. You can open the studio for a specific asset directly from the asset's context menu (right clicking the asset) in the Media Library.
Demos and explorers
Video tutorials
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