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Upload once. Every crop keeps the face.

Mark the face once, and the banner, the card and the phone story all keep it. Alt text in each language, and nothing to relink when you replace a file.

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The Media library in the Studio: a grid of posters, and MAISON-3’s portrait open beside it, a ring on the robot’s face marking its focal point, and under it “Crops keep the marked point.”The Media library in the Studio: a grid of posters, and MAISON-3’s portrait open beside it, a ring on the robot’s face marking its focal point, and under it “Crops keep the marked point.”
MAISON-3’s portrait: the ring marks what every crop keeps.

Try it

Move the point, watch the crops

Cut from the centre, the wide banner slices off the top of MAISON-3’s head. Click its face, or drag across the picture, and every crop follows.

A 1975 portrait of MAISON-3, a round orange robot head with an antenna, on a brown body, against a mustard circle; its name in a dark band along the bottom.

Click the picture to mark what crops must keep.

"focalPoint": { "x": 0.50, "y": 0.50 }

  • 21:9 A wide banner

    …/resize/demo/mq1mrfrc-dkesa9o9?v=…&ar=21:9&w=800

  • 16:9 A card

    …/resize/demo/mq1mrfrc-dkesa9o9?v=…&ar=16:9&w=800

  • 4:3 A listing

    …/resize/demo/mq1mrfrc-dkesa9o9?v=…&ar=4:3&w=800

  • 9:16 A story

    …/resize/demo/mq1mrfrc-dkesa9o9?v=…&ar=9:16&w=800

Moteur cuts each crop this way. When the point moves, the crops are cut again, so nobody sees the old ones.

The library

Around the library

From the day a file is dropped in to the day it’s replaced. Your client’s team never resizes a thing.

  • Uploads

    Checked on the way in

    Every picture is opened before it’s accepted, and one that can’t be read is refused. Location and camera data are removed.

    • No phone’s GPS on the public site
    • 50 MB a file, unless you change it

  • Sizes

    Every size, made once

    The site asks for the width it needs, never larger than the original. Each size is made once, then kept.

    • From thumbnails to sharp large screens
    • In light formats like WebP and AVIF

  • Crops

    Eight shapes

    From a wide banner to a phone story, each cut around the point you marked. A field can ask for its own shape.

    • Set once, on the field
    • Cut again when the point moves

  • Languages

    Alt text in each language

    Alt text, title and caption in every language. A field can say it differently where the picture is used.

    • Searchable in every language
    • Written by AI when it’s on

  • Usage

    Where it’s used

    Each file lists every entry and page that uses it. Deleting one puts it in the bin, and the bin gives it back.

    • “Used in”, field by field
    • Find the files nobody uses

  • Replace

    Replace, don’t relink

    Upload a new file over an old one. It keeps its alt text and its focal point, and every page that used it shows the new one.

    • Nothing to relink
    • New crops, made for you

In the site

Everything an <img> needs, in one call

Ask for an entry with its pictures, and the client writes the image’s attributes for the shape you want. No second request.

  • Alt text in the language asked for
  • Width and height, so the page doesn’t jump

src/pages/journal/[slug].astro

import { createMoteurPublicClient, imageAttributes } from '@moteurio/client';

const moteur = createMoteurPublicClient({
  baseURL: 'https://api.moteur.io',
  auth: { type: 'apiKey', apiKey: process.env.MOTEUR_KEY, projectId: 'client-site' },
});

const article = await moteur
  .channel('public')
  .entries.get('article', 'issue-03-1', { resolveAssets: true });

const img = imageAttributes(article.data.cover, { ratio: '16:9', sizes: '50vw', locale: 'en' });
// {
//   src: '…/resize/demo/mq1mrz9k-7n3w8itd?v=mq1mrzau&ar=16:9&w=1024',
//   srcset: '…&ar=16:9&w=160 160w, …&w=320 320w, … , …&w=1600 1600w',
//   sizes: '50vw',
//   width: 1600,
//   height: 900,
//   alt: 'The Rouyn-Noranda plant, 3 a.m.'
// }
The answer is the client’s, for the demo journal’s “The Factory That Never Stops”.

Questions about media

A client’s editor asksWhich files can we upload?

MoteurPictures (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, AVIF), video (MP4, MOV), audio, PDF and Word documents, and 3D models (glTF, GLB, USDZ). SVG isn’t accepted as an upload.

An agency owner asksHow much room is there?

Moteur100 MB on Free, 1 GB on Personal, 5 GB on Pro and 20 GB on Extra, counted on the files as uploaded.

An agency owner asksWhat if someone deletes a picture that’s in use?

MoteurIt goes to the bin, and the places that used it show nothing until it’s restored. Only a content lead or an admin empties the bin.

A reader asksDoes AI write the alt text?

MoteurWhen an admin turns it on, a new picture with no alt text gets one, in the project’s main language. It costs credits, and anyone can change it.

A developer asksCan video go to a video host?

MoteurYes, with a plugin: Mux, Vimeo, Cloudflare Stream or YouTube. Moteur keeps a copy first, so a video can move hosts later.

Keep reading

Drop in your client’s pictures.

Start a free project with 100 MB of files, mark a face, and ask the API for a banner.

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