Before you begin

This page shows how to create a Google Cloud project, enable the Transcoder API, create authentication credentials, and grant your account one or more IAM roles. This page also shows how to set up a Cloud Storage bucket to save the transcoder job output files.

Create a project

1. 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.
2. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

3. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

   gcloud init

4. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

   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.

5. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

6. Enable the Transcoder API:

   gcloud services enable transcoder.googleapis.com

7. Create local authentication credentials for your Google Account:

   gcloud auth application-default login

8. Grant roles to your Google Account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/transcoder.admin

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

   • Replace PROJECT_ID with your project ID.
   • Replace EMAIL_ADDRESS with your email address.
   • Replace ROLE with each individual role.
9. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

10. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

    gcloud init

11. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

    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.

12. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

13. Enable the Transcoder API:

    gcloud services enable transcoder.googleapis.com

14. Create local authentication credentials for your Google Account:

    gcloud auth application-default login

15. Grant roles to your Google Account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/transcoder.admin

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

    • Replace PROJECT_ID with your project ID.
    • Replace EMAIL_ADDRESS with your email address.
    • Replace ROLE with each individual role.

Note: Add the IAM role roles/storage.admin to your Google account for more control over your project's Cloud Storage buckets.

Create a Cloud Storage bucket

To save the transcoder job output files, create a Cloud Storage bucket in the same location as your Transcoder API jobs. For more information, see the Media assets section of the Locations page.

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

   Go to Buckets page

2. Click Create bucket.
3. On the Create a bucket page, enter your bucket information. To go to the next step, click Continue.
   • 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.
   • For Choose where to store your data, do the following:
     • Select a Location type option.
     • Select a Location option.
   • For Choose a default storage class for your data, select the following: Standard.
   • For Choose how to control access to objects, select an Access control option.
   • For Advanced settings (optional), specify an encryption method, a retention policy, or bucket labels.
4. Click Create.
5. Click Create Folder and enter a name to create a folder in which to save the encoded video outputs.

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