Transcode a video with the Transcoder API

This page shows you how to create a basic video transcoding job using the default settings of the Transcoder API and curl, Windows PowerShell, or the client libraries.

You can also perform this quickstart directly in the Google Cloud console using either of the following programming languages:

• Node.js
• Python

Before you begin

Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
Install the Google Cloud CLI.
If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.
To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
gcloud init
Create or select a Google Cloud project.
Roles required to select or create a project
• Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
• Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator role (roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains the resourcemanager.projects.create permission. Learn how to grant roles.
Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.
• Create a Google Cloud project:

  gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

  Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

• Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

  gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

  Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.
Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.
Enable the Transcoder API:
Roles required to enable APIs
To enable APIs, you need the serviceusage.services.enable permission. If you created the project, then you likely already have this permission through the Owner role (roles/owner). Otherwise, you can get this permission through the Service Usage Admin role (roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin). Learn how to grant roles.
gcloud services enable transcoder.googleapis.com
Create local authentication credentials for your user account:
gcloud auth application-default login
If an authentication error is returned, and you are using an external identity provider (IdP), confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.
Grant roles to your user account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/transcoder.admin, roles/storage.admin
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="user:USER_IDENTIFIER" --role=ROLE
Replace the following:
• PROJECT_ID: Your project ID.
• USER_IDENTIFIER: The identifier for your user account. For example, myemail@example.com.
• ROLE: The IAM role that you grant to your user account.

Install the Google Cloud CLI.

If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

gcloud init

Create or select a Google Cloud project.

Roles required to select or create a project

• Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
• Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator role (roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains the resourcemanager.projects.create permission. Learn how to grant roles.

Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

• Create a Google Cloud project:

  gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

  Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

• Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

  gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

  Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

Enable the Transcoder API:

Roles required to enable APIs

To enable APIs, you need the serviceusage.services.enable permission. If you created the project, then you likely already have this permission through the Owner role (roles/owner). Otherwise, you can get this permission through the Service Usage Admin role (roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin). Learn how to grant roles.

gcloud services enable transcoder.googleapis.com

Create local authentication credentials for your user account:

gcloud auth application-default login

If an authentication error is returned, and you are using an external identity provider (IdP), confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

Grant roles to your user account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/transcoder.admin, roles/storage.admin

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="user:USER_IDENTIFIER" --role=ROLE

Replace the following:

• PROJECT_ID: Your project ID.
• USER_IDENTIFIER: The identifier for your user account. For example, myemail@example.com.
• ROLE: The IAM role that you grant to your user account.

Create a Cloud Storage bucket

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.

   Go to Buckets

2. Click add_box Create.
3. On the Create a bucket page, enter your bucket information. To go to the next step, click Continue.
   1. For Name your bucket, enter a unique bucket name. Don't include sensitive information in the bucket name, because the bucket namespace is global and publicly visible.
   2. In the Choose where to store your data section, do the following:
      1. Select a Location type.
      2. Choose a location where your bucket's data is permanently stored from the Location type drop-down menu.
         • If you select the dual-region location type, you can also choose to enable turbo replication by using the relevant checkbox.
      3. To set up cross-bucket replication, select Add cross-bucket replication via Storage Transfer Service and follow these steps:

         Set up cross-bucket replication

         1. In the Bucket menu, select a bucket.

         2. In the Replication settings section, click Configure to configure settings for the replication job.

            The Configure cross-bucket replication pane appears.

            • To filter objects to replicate by object name prefix, enter a prefix that you want to include or exclude objects from, then click add Add a prefix.
            • To set a storage class for the replicated objects, select a storage class from the Storage class menu. If you skip this step, the replicated objects will use the destination bucket's storage class by default.
            • Click Done.
   3. In the Choose how to store your data section, do the following:
      1. In the Set a default class section, select the following: Standard.
      2. To enable hierarchical namespace, in the Optimize storage for data-intensive workloads section, select Enable hierarchical namespace on this bucket. Note: You cannot enable hierarchical namespace in existing buckets.
   4. In the Choose how to control access to objects section, select whether or not your bucket enforces public access prevention, and select an access control method for your bucket's objects. Note: You cannot change the Prevent public access setting if this setting is enforced at an organization policy.
   5. In the Choose how to protect object data section, do the following:
      • Select any of the options under Data protection that you want to set for your bucket.
        • To enable soft delete, click the Soft delete policy (For data recovery) checkbox, and specify the number of days you want to retain objects after deletion.
        • To set Object Versioning, click the Object versioning (For version control) checkbox, and specify the maximum number of versions per object and the number of days after which the noncurrent versions expire.
        • To enable the retention policy on objects and buckets, click the Retention (For compliance) checkbox, and then do the following:
          • To enable Object Retention Lock, click the Enable object retention checkbox.
          • To enable Bucket Lock, click the Set bucket retention policy checkbox, and choose a unit of time and a length of time for your retention period.
      • To choose how your object data will be encrypted, expand the Data encryption section (expand_more), and select a Data encryption method.
4. Click Create.
5. Click Create Folder and enter a name to create a folder in which to save the encoded video outputs.

Transcode a video using the Transcoder API

You need a video at least 5 seconds in duration from your local machine for the following steps (sample video). See the list of supported input and output formats.

Note: The input video must have at least one video track and one audio track in order to use the preset/web-hd preset.

Upload a video to your Cloud Storage bucket

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Browser page.
   Go to the Cloud Storage Browser page
   
2. Click the name of your bucket to open it.
3. Click Upload files.
4. Select a video file to upload from your local machine.

Your video is now saved to the Cloud Storage bucket.

Create a transcoding job

By default, the Transcoder API transcodes video using H.264 encoding and MP4, HLS, and MPEG-DASH packaging. For each input video, it delivers output renditions in high definition (1280x720 pixels) and standard definition (640x360 pixels).

To create a job, use the projects.locations.jobs.create method. The following code samples create a basic transcoding job using a preset.

cat > request.json 


Web Proxy Viewer  |  New URL  |  Original Page