What’s new in video: transitions, chapters, CMAF, and more
Crossfades and chapters, styled subtitles, multi-language HLS audio, CMAF for HLS and DASH, and iPhone recordings that encode and transcribe.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Posts from 2026
Let AI pick your video thumbnails
Set smart to true on /video/thumbs, and a vision model scores candidate frames and returns the ones that make the best previews.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Python SDK 2.0: asyncio support and Python 3.12+
Python SDK 2.0 adds AsyncTransloadit, an asyncio client for FastAPI and aiohttp apps, and requires Python 3.12. Here is what changes when you upgrade from 1.x.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Transloadit now speaks your language
The Transloadit website, docs, and Console are now available in German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French. Here is what is translated.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Transloadit is enterprise-ready
SAML single sign-on, passkeys, scoped Auth Keys, SHA-384 signatures, and SOC 2 Type II. The answers your security review needs from Transloadit.
Kevin van Zonneveld
A machine-readable API: OpenAPI 3.1, Markdown docs, and llms.txt
Generate typed Transloadit clients from our OpenAPI 3.1 spec, validate webhooks against real schemas, and give AI agents every docs page as Markdown.
Kevin van Zonneveld
From zero to a processed file with the Transloadit CLI
Log in to the Transloadit CLI from your browser, describe a job in plain English, lint and auto-fix Assembly Instructions, and process whole folders.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Switching from Cloudinary, Filestack, Mux, or Uploadcare
Move Cloudinary, Filestack, Mux, and Uploadcare media workflows to Transloadit, with migration maps, cutover checklists, and a runnable image backfill.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Upload once, transform forever
Keep one original per asset in Transloadit Storage and let the Smart CDN render every size, format, and crop on demand from signed URLs.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Store uploads and results without setting up a bucket
Keep uploads and Assembly results in Transloadit Storage — no S3 bucket, no IAM policies — browse them in the Console, and serve them through the Smart CDN with a signed URL.
Kevin van Zonneveld
How to convert WebP to PNG
Compare browser, ImageMagick, Node.js, and managed API approaches for converting WebP images to PNG while preserving transparency.
Tim Koschützki
Best media processing platforms for startups with limited engineering resources
Compare Transloadit, Uploadcare, Mux, Cloudinary, and self-hosted media infrastructure for a startup with a small engineering team.
Tim Koschützki
Extract text and images from PDFs with /document/extract
The /document/extract Robot is now generally available. Pull text and images out of PDFs for search, RAG, and archives, in the same Assembly as the upload.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Content-aware cropping: keep the subject in frame
Crop photos to banners, squares, and stories without cutting off the subject: /image/resize can now crop around the point of interest.
Kevin van Zonneveld
How we responded to an npm supply-chain attack
We reviewed the Mini Shai-Hulud npm supply-chain attack, found no evidence of impact to Transloadit, and tightened dependency and CI safeguards.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Collage effects for /image/merge: polaroid-stack and mosaic
Our /image/merge Robot now supports two styled collage layouts — polaroid-stack and mosaic — turning uploads into ready-to-share images in one Step.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Node SDK Intents: CLI commands for common tasks
Our Node SDK now ships with Intent commands: high-level CLI commands for common tasks like Markdown conversion, image generation, background removal, and more.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Upscale and enhance low-res images in one Assembly
Fix small, flat photos in the Assembly that already resizes and stores them. /image/enhance corrects tone, and /image/upscale adds pixels with AI.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Transloadit team meetup 2025: Mallorca edition
A look back on our company trip in August of 2025.
A.J. van Loon
How we built Transloadit agent skills
Six Agent Skills give Claude, Codex, and Cursor repeatable media workflows for Transloadit. Router pattern, deterministic CLI, and end-to-end testing.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Builtin Templates: stable, versioned transformations
Use our new Builtin Templates for common transformations like HLS encoding without creating a Template first. Stable, versioned, and pinnable.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Transloadit MCP Server: agent-native uploads and processing
Give AI agents the ability to upload, encode, and transform files. The Transloadit MCP Server connects Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Cursor to 86 media Robots.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Convex + Transloadit: uploads and processing
Launch a Convex app with secure uploads, Transloadit processing, and a ready-to-copy Uppy workflow.
Kevin van Zonneveld
What is an audio codec?
Learn what an audio codec is, how it compresses sound, and how to choose between lossy and lossless codecs for streaming, voice, and archives.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Assembly Execution Progress: real-time status for your Assemblies
Give users real-time, per-file progress for Transloadit Assemblies by enabling Assembly Execution Progress.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Let's Build: AI resume parser with Transloadit
Build a resume parsing pipeline with Transloadit’s document conversion and AI robots.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Let's Build: AI invoice parser with Transloadit
Build a production-ready invoice parser by combining Transloadit’s document conversion and AI robots.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Let's Build: AI business card scanner with Transloadit
Build a business card scanner that extracts contact details from images with Transloadit.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Let's Build: background remover with Transloadit
Build a background remover service using Transloadit’s image robots.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Let's Build: document intelligence pipeline using Transloadit
Build a Reducto-style document intelligence pipeline with Transloadit’s OCR, split, and AI Robots, plus flexible storage and workflow primitives.
Kevin van Zonneveld
