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Image and Video Manager
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GuideRecipesAPIRelease notesCLITerraformControl Center

Welcome

  • Welcome to Image and Video Manager
  • How it works
  • Prerequisites
  • Incompatible products and features
  • Best practices for source files
    • Best practices for pristine images
    • Best practices for pristine videos
    • Supported image and video formats
  • Key concepts and terms
  • Free trial guide

Hello World tutorials

  • Hello World tutorial (images)
  • Hello World tutorial (videos)

Configuration

  • Configuration workflow
  • Connect your images and videos
    • Add an Image and Video Manager rule
    • Add the Image and Video Manager (Images) behavior
    • Add the Image and Video Manager (Videos) behavior
    • Add the Set Parameter behavior
    • Improve image selection using Client Hints
  • Control user access with granular permissions
  • Create and edit a policy set
  • Create and edit policies
  • Test your policy on staging
  • Go live on production
  • Create perceptual quality previews
  • Optimize your images
  • Optimize your videos
  • Add image transformations and conditions
    • Apply your policies
    • Append
    • Aspect Crop
    • Background Color
    • Blur
    • Chroma Key
    • Composite
    • Contrast
    • Crop
    • Face Crop
    • Feature Crop
    • Fit and Fill
    • Goop
    • Grayscale
    • Hue/Saturation/Lightness
    • Hue/Saturation/Value
    • If Dimension
    • If Orientation
    • IMQuery
    • Max Colors
    • Mirror
    • Mono Hue
    • Opacity
    • Region of Interest Crop
    • Relative Crop
    • Remove Color
    • Resize
    • Rotate
    • Scale
    • Shear
    • Smart Crop
    • Trim
    • Unsharp Mask

Administration and monitoring

  • Manage your policy sets and policies
  • Purge images from the cache
  • Purge videos from the cache
  • Monitor image and video traffic
  • Gather information using Piez

Use cases and examples

  • Adapt for slow connections
  • Add text overlay to an image
  • Add a company logo or watermark to an image
  • Convert Animated GIF to MP4
  • Create a mobile-friendly hero image
  • Crop around important faces or features
  • Create a scaled thumbnail
  • Crop an image
  • Crop around a focal point
  • Display images using the filename or path
  • Dynamically resize images
  • Resize images to fit an image grid
  • Reduce an image to fill a shape
  • Select a specific derivative image or video
  • Share a policy across multiple properties
  • Use a placeholder video
  • Use query string parameters to apply transformations
  • Validate optimization using Piez

Troubleshoot

  • Troubleshooting tips
  • Derivative images in unexpected format
  • Images on mobile are heavier than expected
  • Unprocessable images
  • Unprocessable videos
  • Delivered image is larger in bytes than the pristine image

Developer tools

  • Image and Video Manager API
  • CLI module for Image and Video Manager


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