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Overview

Build media processing pipelines that handle large files and long-running operations. Process videos, images, audio, and documents with automatic retries, progress tracking, and no timeout limits.

Benefits of using Trigger.dev for media processing workflows

Process multi-hour videos without timeouts: Transcode videos, extract frames, or run CPU-intensive operations for hours. No execution time limits. Stream progress to users in real-time: Show processing status updating live in your UI. Users see exactly where encoding is and how long remains. Parallel processing with resource control: Process hundreds of files simultaneously with configurable concurrency limits. Control resource usage without overwhelming infrastructure.

Example workflow patterns

Simple video transcoding pipeline. Downloads video from storage, batch triggers parallel transcoding to multiple formats and thumbnail extraction, uploads all results.