Thanks to the wide availability of fast connections, online video is no longer confined to the likes of YouTube but crops up on all kinds of websites.
This presents a challenge for the developers who need to maintain those sites but a new solution from online image management specialist Cloudinary is set to make life easier.
"Our customers frequently asked us for a video solution that offered the same capabilities as our image solution, a 'Cloudinary for Videos' if you may," says Itai Lahan, CEO and Founder of Cloudinary. "We are excited to unveil our brand new video support, a complete video service that complements our image-management solution perfectly. We hope that with this, we'll manage to save our customers additional valuable R&D, IT and DevOps time that could be re-focused on their core product instead, save IT costs, and greatly improve their users’ online experience".
Cloudinary's new video support provides a technical solution to all aspects of handling videos online, allowing developers to focus on their core product instead of spending time building and supporting in-house video solutions.
Videos can be uploaded at any scale using rich APIs, from a back-end application or directly from a browser or mobile application. They can be managed via an interactive online interface, and automatic transcoding makes it possible to generate HTML5 and mobile friendly videos for optimized viewing on all web browsers and mobile devices.
Videos can be manipulated on-the-fly, in real-time, to fit with graphic design and product requirements. Cloudinary also makes it easy to brand videos, embed ads and captions inside, generate thumbnails and convert to animated GIFs if required. End-user experience is improved too by optimizing videos and streaming them from a global content delivery network.
You can find out more about how Cloudinary can streamline image and video management for developers on the company's website.