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Spotlighted at Dreamforce '19: Cloudinary's Integration With Salesforce Commerce Page Designer

Topics Asset Management, Conference, Digital Asset Management
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We are excited to be at Dreamforce 2019 (booth #1912) in San Francisco this week meeting with partners, customers, and industry colleagues on the power of digital experiences and dynamic media management. We’re looking forward to demoing our new integrations with Salesforce Commerce Cloud , discussing the ways…

New Auto-Quality Setting for Content-Aware Video Compression

Topics Dynamic Video, Performance Optimization, Video, Video API, Video Transcoding, Video Transformation
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It’s widely known that video is the most effective way of communicating your brand to your audience. It is also an extremely varied medium. Take a look at the existing videos in your media library, you’ll find videos with differing lengths, colors, brightness and density of content. All of…

Automatic Video Transcoding With Cloudinary

Topics Dynamic Video, Performance Optimization, Video, Video API, Video Codec, Video Transcoding, Video Transformation
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Delivering video files to users can be a much more complex undertaking than many people stop to consider. There are a large variety of video formats and codecs to choose between, and various optimization parameters for encoding the videos. Parameters such as bitrate, key-frame-interval, and frame-rate will…

Seven Ways to Make Video Easier With a Dynamic Video Platform

Topics Asset Management, Dynamic Video, Video
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Increasingly, companies large and small, across all industries are enhancing their customer and brand experiences through video. We’ve just launched our dynamic video platform and shared our thoughts on the differences between traditional online video platforms (OVPs) and dynamic ones when it comes to creating, managing, and…

“Not Your Father’s” Online Video Platform

Topics Asset Management, Dynamic Video, Video, Video Codec, Video Player, Video Transcoding, Video Transformation
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Online video platforms (OVPs) first launched in the late 1990s and early 2000s with a similar promise to the once-iconic automobile brand: “Not your father’s Oldsmobile” campaign. However, as OVPs evolved, partly to address our insatiable appetite for video, they became more and more complex. Tools for every…

Taking Cloudinary’s Magento Extension to the Next Level

Topics Digital Asset Management, E-commerce, Magento
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Having an e-commerce platform that both provides a seamless and satisfactory shopping experience, while also serving as a powerful back-office system is crucial to business success today. As a leading e-commerce platform, Magento offers numerous essential features. Additionally, you can leverage its extensions, such as those for dedicated…

Developer Experience for a Modern Web: JAMstack Delivers

Topics JAMStack
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Off and on, the model of architecting software shifts. Over time, programming principles, best practices, toolkits evolve to accommodate the contemporary way of building fast, resilient, and reliable apps. Right now, the buzzword is J-AAAAAAM-STACK. What Is JAMstack? JAMstack is a modern web-development architecture that contains strictly client-side JavaScript, reusable…

Converting Videos to GIFs in Kotlin-Based Android Apps With Cloudinary

Topics Android, GIF, Video, Video API
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Among the image formats available today, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) works for both static and animated images. A popular use of GIF images—commonly called GIFs—is to repeatedly loop motions, which you cannot in real life. Many people have turned themselves into online celebrities through effective application of GIFs. Cloudinary is…

Simple Steps to Make Your Site Accessible With Cloudinary

Topics Accessibility, Image Transformation
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Web accessibility (a11y) is about gaining an insight into— What your users see or hear when they open your app. How they understand your app through interpretation. How they can use your app with ease. It’s a blurry line between accessibility and usability (or user experience) and one might…

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