CloudConvert is made for converting files and is not a file storage provider. Because of this we had to do a little change in the API default behaviour. Up to now all input and output files of the conversions were stored until the conversion was deleted (automatically after 24h). This caused some problems for us: We had to store TB of files nobody used any more: In most cases the output files were already download or saved on Google Drive / S3 / FTP and there was no need to keep them on our servers any more.

To handle this problem we changed the API default behaviour to the following:

• Files are automatically deleted after the first download of the output file
• Files are automatically deleted if they were stored on some output provider like Google Drive or S3

In 99% of all cases this fits for our API users and the change does not require any changes of your API implementations. Nevertheless there are cases in which you relay on the longer storage of the output files:

• If you need to download the output file multiple times
• If you want to do multiple conversions of the same file

For these cases we added the new save parameter. If you set this parameter you will get the old behaviour back: All files are stored until the conversion is deleted.

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Good news for OneDrive users out there: Microsoft OneDrive is now integrated the same way as Google Drive or Dropbox. Now you can open files from OneDrive, convert them using CloudConvert and save them to your OneDrive again without downloading them to your PC!

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CloudConvert now offers the possibility to burn text subtitles (hardsubs) into videos. Therefore you need the SRT file (SubRip Subtitle File) which contains the texts. Afterwards select the video file using the CloudConvert webinterface. As output format you can choose to keep the video format. Using the advanced options select the SRT file (see the screenshot) and start the conversion!

Update: We now also support the more advanced ASS files for adding subtitles!

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A long requested improvement went live this night! We significantly improved the conversion results of DOC(X), PPT(X), XLS(X) and other office formats. The conversion results will now like like as they were natively saved with Microsoft Office. Moreover we support complex and well formatted  documents and embedding fonts.

Just try it out and let us know if you have any feedback!

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We know that our users like the flexibility and the fairness of our prepaid packages. Because of this we will not touch this payment model. Nevertheless there are cases in which a fixed subscription makes more sense: For example if you are using CloudConvert for a customer and you do not want the customer to manually buy new packages every few months. Or maybe you know exactly how much conversions per month you need. For these cases we now offer subscriptions: You can subscribe for a fixed amount of conversion minutes per month. Not used conversions will expire at the end of the month. There is no minimum term, so you can change or cancel the subscription at anytime.

Because the unused quota expires at the end of the month, we can offer our subscription packages up to 50% cheaper than our prepaid packages. Checkout the different pricing models here.

The best part of the new payment model is: You can combine subscriptions and prepaid packages! Quota from subscriptions will be used up first before we touch your quota from prepaid packages. This means if you use a certain minimum of conversions per month, you can buy a subscription for this. Additionally you can buy a prepaid package as backup, which will only be used if your subscription quota is used up.

Besides this we added some bigger prepaid packages: 50,000 and 100,000 conversion minutes (with some good discount, of course!).

We hope you like our new payment model. As always we are open for your feedback on this!

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The CloudConvert REST API is a very powerful and extensive tool. To make it even more easy to use for developers we offer now a new API Console. It is possible to play around with the CloudConvert API without writing any line of code! And the best part: It even offers small code snippets (Bash, PHP, node.js, Python) which can be directly integrated in applications.

 

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