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Cloudinary Video: Manage and deliver video at scale

Last updated: Nov-01-2024

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.

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Overview
Get started
Top links
Demos and explorers
Video tutorials

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
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.	Product or e-commerce Hero videos Social media short form Trailers, previews or teasers
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.	Marketing videos Explainer or how-tos Sports or news clips Video podcasting
Live streaming	Mechanism for streaming your own video out live to your users, can be simulcast via other platforms such as YouTube.	Webinars Explainers or live workouts Company or marketing events

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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.