Is Flix Cloud Right for Me?
Flix Cloud enables web application developers to convert digital video without physical encoding servers.
- Converts practically any video to Flash (VP6, H.264, Sorenson Spark), MP4, iPhone/iPod, mobile/3GP, HD and Windows Media.
- Requires no software installation or configuration, just a little programming to our RESTful XML API.
- Pay only for what you use, $1.75/GB in, $2.25/GB out.
- Scales to your video encoding needs, no matter how large or small.
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| Every week I take a few home movies of my kids and want to publish them on the web. | We'd recommend a free consumer service. Our favorite is Vimeo. If you want more control over branding & player appearance, check out ZenVDN. | |
| I'm starting a video web site on a tight budget. My IT guy tells me I'll need two transcoding servers at $4,000 each, $10,000 worth of software, and 80 hours of programming at $75/hour. |
Flix Cloud was made just for you:- No up-front costs - No hardware - Pay only for what you use - With a good programmer, probably fewer than 40 hours |
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| I have an archive of 1,500 church sermons in Windows Media format that I want to convert to Flash. The idea of spending months with a desktop transcoding program fills me with despair. |
Despair not. With a little basic programming you can send all 1,500 videos to Flix Cloud at once and have them transcode while you do more interesting things.
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| I work for a government agency. We do our own encoding and hosting. We produce 2-4 videos a month, each about 30 minutes. | For that volume of video, and because you do your own hosting, we'd recommend On2 Flix Pro. | |
| Unpredictable spikes in my site traffic create long transcoding wait times and make my users angry. Should I buy two extra servers just to watch them sit idle 80% of the time? |
Absolutely not. Use Flix Cloud to handle the spikes and obliterate those wait times.
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| In addition to Flash my users want videos to be available in 3GP mobile and MP4 formats. Do I need to buy a bunch of new encoding software? |
Flix Cloud can output Flash, 3GP, MP4 and WMV formats. All you need to do is define an encoding recipe for each and then create jobs for those recipes using the same input file. (We even cache the input file so you don't get charged a input fee for every job.)
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| I own an advertising agency. On Tuesday of every week we deliver 85 new video ads to clients. It takes my staff all weekend to do the transcoding and the overtime pay really adds up. |
You can send all those videos into Flix Cloud on Monday and they'll be encoded in plenty of time for Tuesday delivery. You can even directly upload each output video to the client's ftp server or Amazon S3 bucket.
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