Transloadit Blog

Today, we are officially announcing support for Google's WebM video format.

Please check out the new rotation parameter for the /image/resize Robot. It allows you to specify rotation degrees for your images and by default fixes any miss-rotated images. You can see it in action on the rotation demo page.

As you probably know, Transloadit has been running its production infra on Amazon's cloud since day 1 - our block stores, encoding servers, load balancers, the full monty. Except for 1 often forgotten, yet essential part of infra: our name servers.

After a few recent complaints from our customers, it became evident that our x264 encoding configuration was way too slow. Not only had we missed some critical optimizations when configuring the library, but we were not using optimal parameters for the encoding itself either.

Last night, we switched our default machine type from Amazon's c1.medium (2 core) instances, to x1.large.

Today the Transloadit team is happy to announce the arrival of a new feature: image cropping based on coordinates.

We are excited to announce that we have launched a major overhaul of our documentation. It is much more structured now, has a full example of a minimal integration and is all in all easier to grasp. Please check it out and give us your feedback.

For those of you curious about what it's like for us to run on top of Node.js, I gave a talk on the subject last night:

Today we are excited to announce a big new feature: real-time encoding.

When we designed the Transloadit API, we tried to keep things simple.