8 billion media requests a day, now with median render times down from 100ms to ~40ms.
@googlecloud filmed how we moved Imgix to G4 VMs on @nvidia Blackwell GPUs, with almost no code changes.
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Bot Management is now generally available: block, allow, or rate-limit entire bot categories, like AI training crawlers, right from your source settings, and stop paying credits for traffic that isn't real. imgix.link/4huuS8q
crop= targets any of 80 detected subject types, from cup to dining table, and it's a real crop of your original pixels, not a generated replacement. imgix.link/4ADZYDI
Alt text generation just went from 5 supported languages to 52. Same API call, same on-demand pricing. imgix.link/4yUHgpv
New: Bot Management is generally available, stop paying credits for bot traffic. Plus smarter cropping and alt text in 52 languages. imgix.link/4xGwkuH
Clean up paint, isolate a studio background, or shift any photo to golden hour, all from the URL with AI Image Edit. imgix.link/45VKTz1
New: isolate backgrounds, remove wrinkles, and add consistent shadows across your whole product catalog, right from the URL. No design pass required. imgix.link/4gBTA6I
Empty room, flat sky, tired lawn: AI Image Edit fixes listing photos right from the URL. Stage, declutter, and relight without a re-shoot. imgix.link/3UFj7o1
New: AI Image Edit lets you declutter, stage, relight, and clean up images right from the URL. No editing software needed. imgix.link/4cbAsed
Two smaller updates worth knowing: trim by percentage instead of seconds, and pull broadcast-normalized audio straight from any video. video-clip-start=50% · fm=m4a imgix.link/4wmmqNW
Upload your own caption file instead of relying on auto-generated captions, built for accessibility-compliant content. Plus independent in/out transitions for text and overlays. imgix.link/4wUCBU2
Crop from any edge, not just center, and rotate or flip with one parameter. Your existing Imgix Image API syntax now works on video too. crop=top,left · rot=90&flip=h imgix.link/4bCbyV0
Reframing to a new aspect ratio doesn't have to mean plain black bars. Swap them for your own branded background instead:
fill=image&fill-image= imgix.link/3Rx1WUI
New this release: burned-in progress bars for muted autoplay clips, plus cinematic effects like film grain, bloom, vignette, and chromatic aberration. 🎨 imgix.link/3RBc9iW
Shaky footage, smoothed out. GPU-accelerated video stabilization, running in real time. Before/after: 👇 ?video-stabilize=true
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Bring your own soundtrack. Layer background music under any audio, with automatic ducking that dips the volume the moment someone talks. 🎵
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Your podcast MP3 becomes a captioned, vertical, waveform video, all from one URL: imgix.link/3RmW7sS
?fm=mp4&ar=9:16&video-wave=true&video-generate-subtitles=on🎙️
We just shipped 15 new video/audio features, our biggest release yet. Turn any podcast into a captioned, waveform video in one API call. Real-time stabilization for shaky footage. Chroma-key, custom backgrounds, and full compositing control. 🧵👇
Also new: film grain, bloom, vignette & chromatic aberration, a burned-in progress bar, bring-your-own subtitles, independent transitions, percentage-based trim, and clean audio-only extraction. Full breakdown + code: bit.ly/imgix-video-launch
