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Ask HN: Experiences with Image, Video and Doc processing services

For my web-app, I need to upload images, videos, audio and documents. Given the plethora of services out there, I am looking to hear other people's experiences with these services, or workflow?

Here is where I'm at so far:

1. Images: Just upload original hi-res, and use Imgix/Cloudinaryfor on-the-fly processing and delivering responsive images. Any experiences of Imgix vs Cloudinary?

2. Audio & Video: Use Transloadit to convert to formats so that it can be loaded on web and mobile, across browsers. Any experiences with Transloadit or any other similar services?

3. Documents: Use CloudConvert to convert documents to PDF and compress. Any experiences with CloudConvert or any other similar services?

Any general advice on uploading and processing these kind of files are also much appreciated!

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Hey,

This is Abdel from Transloadit! I just wanted you to know that we do provide free support for our customers for onboarding solving any issues you might along the way. you can ping me at abdel@transloadit.com for any inquiries or if you need further help starting with the service.

Hi,

You can use Cloudinary for all your media needs (documents included) :)

Images

After uploading an image to Cloudinary, you'll be able to perform on-the-fly transformations directly from the URL. For example, this is a Cloudinary URL of the sample image - http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/sample.jpg resizing it to a 350X200 image with the width and height parameters (w and h in URLs, respectively) - http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_350,h_200/samp... For more transformations options - http://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_transformations

Videos basically the same as image handling. Uploading videos is as easy as uploading images (same code, just changing the resource_type to video). Then, convert to a different format simply by changing the video's extension - The original dog.mp4 - http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/video/upload/dog.mp4 Transcoding to a webm video on-the-fly (webm is natively supported on Chrome browsers) - http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/video/upload/dog.webm You can get the audio channel by transcoding it to an mp3 file - http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/video/upload/dog.mp3

Docs Uploading by changing the resource_type to raw.

All resources are delivered by multiple CDNs.

For more information on uploads and delivery - http://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_images

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to support@cloudinary.com

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