Catalog and Enrich Your Media
Extract, modify, and enrich your media files with metadata for better organization.
- GPS
- 40.7128°N, 74.0060°W
- Device
- iPhone 16 Pro
- Serial
- C02X…9QHV
Fingerprint any file with MD5, SHA, or Blake2 algorithms for deduplication and integrity checks.
Embed copyright notices, author information, and usage rights into your media files.
Remove sensitive metadata like GPS locations and camera serial numbers for privacy.
Preview and Enrich Media Files
Generate a preview thumbnail and embed copyright, authorship, and keywords into any file — all in one Assembly.
{"steps": {":original": {"robot": "/upload/handle"},"previewed": {"use": ":original","robot": "/file/preview","width": 400,"height": 300,"format": "jpg","resize_strategy": "fit"},"tagged": {"use": ":original","robot": "/meta/write","data_to_write": {"copyright": "© Acme Studios 2026","author": "Jane Doe","keywords": "nature, wildlife"}}}}
Robots for Media Cataloging
At Transloadit, a Robot is an automated worker that performs a single task in your file pipeline — like hashing files, generating previews, or writing metadata.
Fingerprint any file with MD5, SHA, or Blake2 algorithms for deduplication and integrity checks.
/file/hash
Create thumbnails from images, videos, and documents so you can preview content at a glance.
/file/preview
Embed copyright, authorship, and custom keywords into your files, or blank fields to strip them.
/meta/write
Stop handling metadata manually
Work with EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and ID3 tags across images, videos, and audio files.
Apply metadata changes to thousands of files at once during your processing pipeline.
Automatically remove GPS coordinates and device information for user privacy.
Embed copyright notices, author names, and usage rights directly into your files.
Read and modify creation dates, modification times, and other temporal metadata.
Combine metadata operations with resizing, encoding, and exporting in one workflow.
Take Media Cataloging into production
The guides, Robot reference, and working demos teams reach for when Media Cataloging has to run reliably at scale.
“We were looking for simplicity and speed. It didn’t necessarily have to be cheap, but it had to be fast. Fast to develop with and fast to do the transcoding.”
Charlie Brown, Solutions Architect at Cambridge University Press
Guides
- A complete guide to digital-asset workflowsDesign a digital-asset workflow from intake and processing through review, publication, retention, and deletion.
- Five ways asset-management technology transforms operationsFive ways modern asset-management technology improves intake, discovery, reuse, governance, and delivery.
- Integrating DAM workflow systems with media processingConnect DAM states to media-processing jobs without duplicating ownership or creating callback races.
- AI photo organization: metadata, grouping, and privacyOrganize photo collections with AI-assisted metadata while preserving originals, dates, privacy, correction paths, and human meaning.
- AI metadata governance inside a digital asset managerPlace AI around a DAM without confusing model enrichment and file processing with the governance responsibilities of the asset system.
What Media Cataloging costs to run
Every plan runs every Robot, so nothing about this service is held back for a bigger one. You are paying for the volume you put through it.
Community
FreePerfect for trying out Transloadit
5 GB every month200 priority slots/region2 collaborators0.5 GB file size limitOutput video and audio are trimmedOutput images are watermarkedService stops working when 5GB reachedEnterprise
CustomFor teams with advanced needs
Tailored monthly GB allowanceCustom priority slots per regionUnlimited collaboratorsTailored file size limitsTiered pricing availableCustom features & invoicing availableCustom Slack channelMonthly spending limits and alertsEnterprise support SLAsFaster file processingWhitelabeling support