Get started with Azure Video Indexer in Azure portal

This Quickstart walks you through the steps to get started with Azure Video Indexer. You'll create an Azure Video Indexer account and its accompanying resources by using the Azure portal.

To start using Azure Video Indexer, you'll need to create an Azure Video Indexer account. The account needs to be associated with a Media Services resource and a managed identity. The managed identity will need to have Contributor permissions role on the Media Services.

Prerequisites

Azure level

• This user should be a member of your Azure subscription with either an Owner role, or both Contributor and User Access Administrator roles. A user can be added twice, with two roles. Once with Contributor and once with user Access Administrator. For more information, see View the access a user has to Azure resources.

• Register the EventGrid resource provider using the Azure portal.

  In the Azure portal, go to Subscriptions->[<subscription>]->ResourceProviders. Search for Microsoft.Media and Microsoft.EventGrid. If not in the "Registered" state, select Register. It takes a couple of minutes to register.

Azure Video Indexer

• Owner^* role assignment on the Subscription level.

  • Owner* role assignment on the related Azure Media Services (AMS)
  • Owner* role assignment on the related Managed Identity

^{*Or both Contributor and User Access Administrator roles}

Azure portal

Create an Azure Video Indexer account in the Azure portal

1. Sign into the Azure portal.

2. Using the search bar at the top, enter "Azure Video Indexer".

3. Select on Azure Video Indexer under Services.

   

4. Select Create.

5. In the Create an Azure Video Indexer resource section enter required values.

   

   Here are the definitions:

   Name	Description
   Subscription	Choose the subscription that you're using to create the Azure Video Indexer account.
   Resource Group	Choose a resource group where you're creating the Azure Video Indexer account, or select Create new to create a resource group.
   Azure Video Indexer account	Select Create a new account option.
   Resource name	Enter the name of the new Azure Video Indexer account, the name can contain letters, numbers and dashes with no spaces.
   Region	Select the geographic region that will be used to deploy the Azure Video Indexer account. The location matches the resource group location you chose, if you'd like to change the selected location change the selected resource group or create a new one in the preferred location. Azure region in which Azure Video Indexer is available
   Media Services account name	Select a Media Services that the new Azure Video Indexer account will use to process the videos. You can select an existing Media Services or you can create a new one. The Media Services must be in the same location you selected.
   Managed identity	Select an existing user-assigned managed identity or system-assigned managed identity or both when creating the account. The new Azure Video Indexer account will use the selected managed identity to access the Media Services associated with the account. If both user-assigned and system assigned managed identities will be selected during the account creation the default managed identity is the user assigned managed identity. A Contributor role should be assigned on the Media Services.

6. Select Review + create at the bottom of the form.

Review deployed resource

You can use the Azure portal to validate the Azure Video Indexer account and other resources that were created. After the deployment is finished, select Go to resource to see your new Azure Video Indexer account.

Overview

Select on Explore Azure Video Indexer's portal to view your new account on the Azure Video Indexer portal.

Unique essentials

Name	Description
Status	When the resource is connected properly, status is Active. When there's a problem with the connection between the managed identity and the Media Service instance status will be Connection to Azure Media Services failed. Contributor role assignment on the Media Services should be added to the proper managed identity.
Managed identity	The name of the default managed identity, user-assigned or system-assigned. The default managed identity can be updated using the Change button.

Management API

Use the Management API tab to manually generate access tokens for the account. This token can be used to authenticate API calls for this account. Each token is valid for one hour.

Choose the following:

• Permission type: Contributor or Reader
• Scope: Account, Project or Video
  • For Project or Video you should also insert the matching ID
• Select Generate

Identity

Use the Identity tab to manually update the managed identities associated with the Azure Video Indexer resource. Add new managed identities, switch the default managed identity between user-assigned and system-assigned or set a new user-assigned managed identity.

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