Short answer: no — SmartVideo doesn’t create or edit videos, and it can’t build a video out of images. SmartVideo is a video hosting, delivery, and optimization service. You bring a finished video file, and SmartVideo handles getting it onto your website fast, ad-free, and with your own branding instead of a platform’s.
Here’s the simplest way to think about it:
- A video maker / editor (like CapCut, iMovie, Canva, or Adobe Premiere) is where you’d turn images into a slideshow video, trim clips, add music, and export a finished
.mp4. - SmartVideo is what you use after that — it takes your finished video and serves it on your site with faster playback and less buffering, no ads, and no platform branding pulling viewers away. It encodes up to 1080p and automatically adapts the quality to each viewer’s connection.
So if you have images you’d like to turn into a video, you’ll first create the video in a video-editing tool of your choice, then bring that finished file to SmartVideo to host and deliver it.
How you bring a video to SmartVideo
Once you have a finished video file, point SmartVideo at it with a direct link to the video file — for example, an .mp4 you host on Amazon S3, Wasabi, or your own server. The src should be a direct video URL, not a YouTube link:
<smartvideo src="https://your-video.example.com/file.mp4"></smartvideo>That’s the whole idea: you own and create the video, and SmartVideo makes it load fast and look clean on your pages.
If you don’t have a SmartVideo account yet, create one here — every plan includes a 14-day free trial.
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