Getting started with Panda

At the core of Panda is a REST API which supports uploading and managing of videos, encodings and output profiles.

Every Panda account can create an unlimited number of clouds. Typically you will want to create a separate cloud for each website you plan to integrate Panda into. You can also use clouds to separate production and staging environments. Each cloud has a single Amazon S3 bucket which you specify attached to it. All uploaded videos, resulting encodings and thumbnails are then saved to this S3 bucket.

To access the API there are client libraries available in many languages: See all client libraries. Refer to the API Docs when using the API. All API responses are in JSON.

The following guides are also available: Rails How-to and PHP How-to.

Panda provides to ways of sending video files in for transcoding. The first is by using the url of a video anywhere on the web (see API Docs for details). The other method is by using our excellent jQuery uploader which supports seamless HTML5 and Flash uploads, automatically detected depending on the client’s browser.

To configure the encoding output formats, refer to the Encoding Presets documentation.

If you have any questions or problems don’t hesitate posting to the Support Forum and we will do out upmost to resolve your issue.