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

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.
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.
Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.
Enable the Transcoder API:
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
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="user:USER_IDENTIFIER" --role=ROLE
• Replace PROJECT_ID with your project ID.

• Replace USER_IDENTIFIER with the identifier for your user account. For example, user:[e-mail].

• Replace ROLE with each individual role.

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.

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.

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

Enable the Transcoder API:

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

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

• Replace PROJECT_ID with your project ID.

• Replace USER_IDENTIFIER with the identifier for your user account. For example, user:[e-mail].

• 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. Create a Cloud Storage bucket and configure it as follows:
   • Set the storage class to S (Standard).
   • Set the storage location to the following: US (United States).
   • Replace BUCKET_NAME with a unique bucket name. Don't include sensitive information in the bucket name because the bucket namespace is global and publicly visible.

   gcloud storage buckets create gs://BUCKET_NAME --default-storage-class STANDARD --location US

2. Click Create Folder and enter a name to create a folder in which to save the encoded video outputs.

More information

Receive Pub/Sub notifications for job updates from the Transcoder API.