Use case

Content Creators & UGC Platforms

Run FFmpeg for UGC platforms and creator tools. Spiky weekend traffic, quiet weekdays — your bill follows the curve. Resize for TikTok, add watermarks, batch process 10,000 videos.

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Pain points

Commands

Links

Outcome

Your users create. We handle the formats. Every platform, every time.

Teams building creator tools, UGC platforms, social media schedulers, and any app where users generate and publish video content across multiple platforms.

step 01TikTok/Reels resize (landscape to 9:16)

step 02Watermark overlay

step 03Trim to 60s for Shorts

Problem

Video infra should not own your roadmap

Spiky traffic kills fixed-cost models

UGC platforms see 3-10x traffic on weekends. A $29/month subscription wastes money on quiet weekdays and throttles you on busy Saturdays. Per-GB billing means your costs breathe with your traffic.

Every platform wants a different format

TikTok needs 9:16, Reels wants 9:16 at a different bitrate, YouTube Shorts caps at 60s, Twitter has its own quirks. Your users expect one-click publishing to all of them.

Watermarks, captions, overlays at scale

Every video needs branded. When you're processing thousands of UGC videos, manually adding watermarks or captions is impossible. It needs to be programmatic.

Why us

Raw FFmpeg power without the worker fleet

Zero monthly minimum — your bill drops to near-zero on quiet weeks

100 concurrent requests — handle weekend spikes without queueing

Command chaining for multi-platform cuts in one API call

Real-time logs let you show processing progress to your users

Temporary file uploads — users can upload directly, no S3 bucket needed

GPU encoding for the fastest possible turnaround on social clips

Commands

Common FFmpeg commands for Content Creators & UGC Platforms

ffmpeg

TikTok/Reels resize (landscape to 9:16)

Convert horizontal video to vertical with smart centre-crop for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

-i {{input}} -vf "crop=ih*9/16:ih,scale=1080:1920" -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a aac -b:a 128k {{tiktok.mp4}}

ffmpeg

Watermark overlay

Add a branded watermark to every video in the bottom-right corner.

-i {{input}} -i {{logo.png}} -filter_complex "overlay=W-w-10:H-h-10" -c:v libx264 -crf 23 {{watermarked.mp4}}

ffmpeg

Trim to 60s for Shorts

Trim a video to exactly 60 seconds starting from the 30-second mark.

-i {{input}} -ss 00:00:30 -t 00:01:00 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a aac {{short.mp4}}

It's actually not bad.

Get an API key in 30 seconds. Your first 2 GB are free. No credit card required.

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Use case

Content Creators & UGC Platforms

Run FFmpeg for UGC platforms and creator tools. Spiky weekend traffic, quiet weekdays — your bill follows the curve. Resize for TikTok, add watermarks, batch process 10,000 videos.

Try free Read docs

Pain points

Commands

Links

Outcome

Your users create. We handle the formats. Every platform, every time.

Teams building creator tools, UGC platforms, social media schedulers, and any app where users generate and publish video content across multiple platforms.

step 01TikTok/Reels resize (landscape to 9:16)

step 02Watermark overlay

step 03Trim to 60s for Shorts

Problem

Video infra should not own your roadmap

Spiky traffic kills fixed-cost models

UGC platforms see 3-10x traffic on weekends. A $29/month subscription wastes money on quiet weekdays and throttles you on busy Saturdays. Per-GB billing means your costs breathe with your traffic.

Every platform wants a different format

TikTok needs 9:16, Reels wants 9:16 at a different bitrate, YouTube Shorts caps at 60s, Twitter has its own quirks. Your users expect one-click publishing to all of them.

Watermarks, captions, overlays at scale

Every video needs branded. When you're processing thousands of UGC videos, manually adding watermarks or captions is impossible. It needs to be programmatic.

Why us

Raw FFmpeg power without the worker fleet

Zero monthly minimum — your bill drops to near-zero on quiet weeks

100 concurrent requests — handle weekend spikes without queueing

Command chaining for multi-platform cuts in one API call

Real-time logs let you show processing progress to your users

Temporary file uploads — users can upload directly, no S3 bucket needed

GPU encoding for the fastest possible turnaround on social clips

Commands

Common FFmpeg commands for Content Creators & UGC Platforms

ffmpeg

TikTok/Reels resize (landscape to 9:16)

Convert horizontal video to vertical with smart centre-crop for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

-i {{input}} -vf "crop=ih*9/16:ih,scale=1080:1920" -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a aac -b:a 128k {{tiktok.mp4}}

ffmpeg

Watermark overlay

Add a branded watermark to every video in the bottom-right corner.

-i {{input}} -i {{logo.png}} -filter_complex "overlay=W-w-10:H-h-10" -c:v libx264 -crf 23 {{watermarked.mp4}}

ffmpeg

Trim to 60s for Shorts

Trim a video to exactly 60 seconds starting from the 30-second mark.

-i {{input}} -ss 00:00:30 -t 00:01:00 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a aac {{short.mp4}}

It's actually not bad.

Get an API key in 30 seconds. Your first 2 GB are free. No credit card required.

Try Free

Related use cases

Video SaaS Platforms Agencies & Freelancers AI Video Startups

Integrations for Content Creators & UGC Platforms

Zapier Make n8n Pipedream