diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
index 18cf5a63f..47d702681 100644
--- a/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -154,3 +154,6 @@ features = ["gl-egl", "gl-x11", "gl-wayland"]
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "subclass"
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "video_converter"
diff --git a/examples/src/bin/video_converter.rs b/examples/src/bin/video_converter.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7a55d0c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/src/bin/video_converter.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+// This example demonstrates how to use the GStreamer video converter
+// API to configure the compositor element to do specific
+// formatting of an input video.
+//
+extern crate gstreamer as gst;
+extern crate gstreamer_video as gst_video;
+use gst::prelude::*;
+
+#[path = "../examples-common.rs"]
+mod examples_common;
+
+fn example_main() {
+    gst::init().unwrap();
+
+    // This creates a pipeline by parsing the gst-launch pipeline syntax.
+    let pipeline = gst::parse_launch(
+        "videotestsrc name=src ! video/x-raw,width=640,height=480 ! compositor0.sink_0 \
+         compositor ! video/x-raw,width=1280,height=720 ! videoconvert ! autovideosink",
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+
+    let pipeline = pipeline.dynamic_cast::<gst::Pipeline>().unwrap();
+    let compositor = pipeline.get_by_name("compositor0").unwrap();
+    let sinkpad = compositor.get_static_pad("sink_0").unwrap();
+
+    /* Completely contrived example that takes the 4:3 input video, cuts out a 5:4 frame
+     * and then adds pillarbox borders to place it in a 16:9 target area */
+    /* The output will be the full frame: */
+    sinkpad.set_property("xpos", &0i32).unwrap();
+    sinkpad.set_property("ypos", &0i32).unwrap();
+    sinkpad.set_property("width", &1280i32).unwrap();
+    sinkpad.set_property("height", &720i32).unwrap();
+
+    let mut converter_config = gst_video::VideoConverterConfig::new();
+    /* Crop the input frame to 5:4: */
+    converter_config.set_src_x((640 - 512) / 2);
+    converter_config.set_src_width(Some(512));
+    converter_config.set_src_y(0);
+    converter_config.set_src_height(Some(480));
+    /* Add postbox borders to output 900x720 */
+    converter_config.set_dest_x((1280 - 900) / 2);
+    converter_config.set_dest_width(Some(900));
+    converter_config.set_dest_y(0);
+    converter_config.set_dest_height(Some(720));
+
+    sinkpad
+        .set_property("converter-config", &*converter_config)
+        .unwrap();
+    pipeline
+        .set_state(gst::State::Playing)
+        .expect("Unable to set the pipeline to the `Playing` state");
+
+    /* Iterate messages on the bus until an error or EOS occurs,
+     * although in this example the only error we'll hopefully
+     * get is if the user closes the output window */
+    let bus = pipeline.get_bus().unwrap();
+    for msg in bus.iter_timed(gst::CLOCK_TIME_NONE) {
+        use gst::MessageView;
+
+        match msg.view() {
+            MessageView::Eos(..) => {
+                println!("received eos");
+                // An EndOfStream event was sent to the pipeline, so exit
+                break;
+            }
+            MessageView::Error(err) => {
+                println!(
+                    "Error from {:?}: {} ({:?})",
+                    err.get_src().map(|s| s.get_path_string()),
+                    err.get_error(),
+                    err.get_debug()
+                );
+                break;
+            }
+            _ => (),
+        };
+    }
+
+    pipeline
+        .set_state(gst::State::Null)
+        .expect("Unable to set the pipeline to the `Null` state");
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    // tutorials_common::run is only required to set up the application environent on macOS
+    // (but not necessary in normal Cocoa applications where this is set up autmatically)
+    examples_common::run(example_main);
+}