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Video transformations
Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that provides an end-to-end media management solution for images and videos, including upload,
storage, administration, manipulation, optimization and delivery.

Using Cloudinary's comprehensive API and easy to use manipulation URLs, uploaded videos (upload_videos) can be automatically
transcoded to all relevant formats suitable for web viewing, optimized for web browsers and mobile devices, and normalized and
manipulated in real time to t your graphic design. The videos can be easily embedded in your website using HTML5 video tags (or Flash)
and then streamed to your users via a fast CDN. Get the most out of all the video functionality described on this page by embedding your
videos using Cloudinary's video player (cloudinary_video_player).

On this page:

On-the- y video encoding and delivery

Embedding videos in web pages

Resizing and cropping videos

Trimming videos

Concatenating videos

Rotating videos

Rounding corners and creating circular videos

Video settings

Control access to videos

Video E ects

Audio settings

Generating video thumbnails

Generate waveform images

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Adding text captions
OK Settings
Adding subtitles

Applying 3D LUTs to video

Adaptive bitrate streaming - HLS and MPEG-DASH

Audio manipulation and streaming

Creating animated images

Video transformation reference

The Video Transformation Reference (video_transformation_reference) summarizes all parameters available for manipulating videos as well
as video transformation ags (video_transformation_reference#video_ ags) that adjust the default behavior of certain transformations.

On-the-fly video encoding and delivery

You deliver video using Cloudinary HTTP or HTTPS URLs. You can add transformations to any Cloudinary URL and deliver your video,
encoded to the speci ed format, on-the- y. Multiple users can then stream the video even while it is being encoded and delivered via CDN.
You can also deliver videos that were encoded in advance with eager or explicit (upload_videos#eager_video_transformations)
transformations. Furthermore Cloudinary supports HTTP progressive download for media players capable of progressive download
playback.

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