Compress Video Via API

Build automated image and video editing workflows and applications with Shotstack.

The internet's most advanced image and video editing API

Shotstack is the most user friendly, powerful and reliable infrastructure solution to programmatially compress video.

The only thing you need is some JSON

{
    "timeline": {
        "background": "#000000",
        "tracks": [
            {
                "clips": [
                    {
                        "asset": {
                            "type": "video",
                            "src": "https://shotstack-ingest-api-v1-au.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/62hne3bb81/zzyb59hr-40pm-1t1j-xkqm-1uooql4lmrbi/source.m4v",
                            "trim": 2
                        },
                        "start": 0,
                        "offset": {
                            "x": 0,
                            "y": 0
                        },
                        "position": "center",
                        "length": 6
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "output": {
        "size": {
            "width": 1280,
            "height": 720
        },
        "format": "mp4",
        "quality": "low"
    }
}