The Unsplash Image API enables limitless API requests, providing developers with the freedom to incorporate images into their apps without speed or quota restrictions. Leveraging Imgix, a sophisticated image processing service, it allows real-time modification of image dimensions and quality directly via URL parameters, facilitating client-side image transformations without extra API calls. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

I'm not sure if you have budget for this but companies like https://imgix.com/ and https://supabase.com/docs/guides/storage/serving/image-transformations let you do image transforms on the fly through url query params. Most of them can resize, crop, compress, and transform to webp. Source: 6 months ago

I know that imgix.com provides an API for image manipulations. There may be others. Source: over 1 year ago

I use ImgIX for a long time now. Very satisfied. Https://imgix.com. Source: over 1 year ago

I would highly recommend using Imgix as another image CDN. The free tier is insanely generous. Source: over 1 year ago

Alternatively, if your Internet connection can handle it, you could upload your videos to a cloud service that processes them for you. For example, Amazon's AWS has a transcoding service called Elastic, which charges 3 cents per minute of video (half of that if it's lower than 720p). Might be worth the reduced time and effort for business use. Source: about 1 year ago

If you're looking for an AWS specific solution, check out Amazon Elastic Transcoder. I think it'll do what you want with a pipeline and you can do it serverless. Source: over 1 year ago

If you use https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/ then you don’t need a computer, it’s a managed service, get your files to s3 somehow and thats it. There are some other services from other providers that can do the same too, I strongly encourage to look into that, unless you have specific encoding specs that you can’t do somewhere. Source: about 2 years ago

However compressing on the server is the better option in case you want to generate gifs, thumbnails, and different sizes and formats of the video. A lot of big video streaming companies will use something like Amazons media convert. Source: over 2 years ago

This is how I'd do it, but instead of using EC2 for step 5 I'd look into Elastic Transcoder. Source: almost 3 years ago