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Host Assets on Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Storage is a managed object storage service offering high availability, global redundancy, and fine-grained access controls. Store and serve your assets from Google's infrastructure.

By using the Google Cloud Storage destination you can immediately send your assets to your own GCS bucket, making it quick and easy to host your assets in your own Google Cloud account.

Setup​

Sign up to Google Cloud and create a Cloud Storage bucket if you have not already set one up. Google Cloud credentials are required and must be added via the Shotstack dashboard.

Adding credentials​

Login to the dashboard and navigate to the integrations page, find the Google Cloud Storage destination and click configure.

Enter your credentials as shown. You can add different credentials for each Shotstack environment; sandbox and v1 (production).

Integration​

Basic integration​

To send files to Google Cloud Storage add the following to the output parameter of a render request JSON payload, JSON template or the root level of an ingest request:

"destinations": [{
    "provider": "google-cloud-storage",
    "options": {
        "bucket": "my-bucket"
    }
}]

This will send the generated or ingested files to the my-bucket bucket. The filename will be the render id, source id or rendition id plus extension, i.e. edc47d30-a504-4f16-8439-24c863a7a782.mp4 and will be saved to the root level of the bucket. Thumbnail and poster images will also be transferred.

Advanced integration​

You can also optionally set a prefix (folder path) and custom file name:

"destinations": [{
    "provider": "google-cloud-storage",
    "options": {
        "bucket": "my-bucket",
        "prefix": "my-renders",
        "filename": "video"
    }
}]

This will send the rendered files to the my-bucket bucket. If the rendered file is an mp4, the filename will be video.mp4 and will be saved with a prefix my-renders.

When using a custom filename omit the file extension, i.e. .mp4 or .jpg. This will be added based on the rendered file type. If a poster or thumbnail are created these will have -poster.jpg and -thumbnail.jpg appended.

Sending assets to multiple buckets​

It is also possible to send files to multiple buckets with one request:

"destinations": [{
    "provider": "google-cloud-storage",
    "options": {
        "bucket": "my-bucket"
    }
},{
    "provider": "google-cloud-storage",
    "options": {
        "bucket": "my-other-bucket",
        "prefix": "backups"
    }
}]

This will send rendered assets to my-bucket and to the backups prefix of my-other-bucket. Buckets must be accessible by the configured credentials.

Opting out from the Shotstack destination​

By default all generated files are sent to the Shotstack destination. If you are using Google Cloud Storage you may wish to opt out from hosting your videos with Shotstack using:

"destinations": [{
    "provider": "google-cloud-storage",
    "options": {
        "bucket": "my-bucket"
    }
},{
    "provider": "shotstack",
    "exclude": true
}]

This will send the generated video to Google Cloud Storage but not to Shotstack.