Apply on-the-fly video transformations (transcoding, cropping, watermarking) using the Cloudinary Video API
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Steps
Upload a video asset to Cloudinary via API, SDK, or the upload widget and note its public ID.
Build a delivery URL applying transformation parameters in the URL path, such as crop and gravity parameters, e.g. c_fill with g_auto for smart cropping.
Add fetch_format or f_auto to transcode/deliver the video in an optimized format based on the requesting browser.
Layer a watermark by adding an overlay transformation referencing another uploaded image or video asset's public ID with positioning parameters.
Request the resulting URL from a client or CDN; Cloudinary generates the transformed video on first request and caches it for subsequent requests.
Known gotchas
Transformations are generated on-the-fly and cached after first request, so the first viewer of a new transformation URL experiences extra processing latency.
f_auto and q_auto select format/quality based on the requesting client, so the same transformation URL can serve different bytes to different browsers.
Chained transformations are order-sensitive in the URL path; applying a crop after an overlay produces a different result than the reverse order.
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