{"id":21287,"date":"2015-05-05T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/introducing_cloud_based_service_for_video_upload_real_time_manipulation_and_optimized_viewing"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:55:32","slug":"introducing_cloud_based_service_for_video_upload_real_time_manipulation_and_optimized_viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/introducing_cloud_based_service_for_video_upload_real_time_manipulation_and_optimized_viewing","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Video Asset Management in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say that a picture<\/strong> is worth a thousand words. For modern websites, a video<\/strong> surely takes the visual impact to a whole new level.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, people enjoy the amazing capability of shooting videos with smartphone cameras that easily fit in their back pockets and are accessible nearly everywhere. Modern web applications have an opportunity to dramatically increase their visual impact by showcasing these videos online. Between news reports, user shared video snippets, explainer videos and ad campaigns, we see more and more videos appearing daily in our visited websites.<\/p>\n

Supporting the backend required to transcode these videos from non-normalized hi-res originals over to HTML5 web friendly video formats is a non-trivial technical process. Many developers spend considerable time building in-house solutions to solve these redundant tasks.<\/p>\n

Cloudinary announces video asset management<\/h2>\n

Cloudinary\u2019s image asset management service was publicly launched about 3 years ago. Since then it has become the leading cloud-based image solution, simplifying the life of more than 50,000 developers by leveraging Cloudinary\u2019s end-to-end solution: image upload, cloud storage, powerful administration, image transformation and fast CDN delivery. All that with simple one liners of code that developers love.<\/p>\n

Throughout the years we\u2019ve been asked by our customers for a solution for video clips. People were searching for \u2018Cloudinary for video\u2019. Today we are excited to introduce Cloudinary\u2019s new video asset management solution<\/strong>, an end-to-end cloud-based video asset management service that joins our image asset management<\/a> service, shares the same concepts, usage simplicity, high performance and strong integration with web and mobile development frameworks, and improves your website\u2019s loading speed while reducing your bandwidth requirements and IT costs.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a short overview video of Cloudinary\u2019s video management solution (make sure to turn on your speakers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Video asset management service<\/h2>\n

Cloudinary\u2019s service aims to cover all image and video related needs. With a single line of code, developers can start uploading media files to the cloud and with another line of code add dynamically generated image or video content<\/a> to their site, matching their graphic design and product requirements.<\/p>\n

The video asset management service currently supports the following:<\/p>\n