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Cloudinary handles image and video transformations on demand — resize, format conversion, watermarking, smart cropping.
Full walkthrough being written.

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When to pick over Convex file storage

  • You need on-the-fly transformations (responsive images, format negotiation).
  • Heavy image volumes where Cloudinary’s optimizations save real bandwidth.
  • Video processing (transcoding, adaptive bitrate).

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Setup

CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME, CLOUDINARY_API_KEY, CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET in vly secrets. Upload via Cloudinary’s signed-upload flow from a Convex mutation.

Convex file storage

Built-in alternative.

Mux

Video-specific.

File uploads recipe

Patterns.
Last modified on April 18, 2026