Clone Azure Media Services asset/video using AMS v3

Question

What's the best approach to cloning video assets in Azure Media Services?

Scenario: I've got the project in my app with various videos already processed (submitted transform job, processed and published on CDN) by Azure Media Services. I'm using this project as a template project for other projects in my app so I need to clone videos created by Azure Media Services as well. What's the best approach? I've found this documentation for cloning blobs in v2, however, I haven't found any resources for v3.

Is it safe to clone just generated blobs using Blob Storage API? If so how to create streaming locators/publish cloned blobs to be accessible via CDN?

What I tried: I know I can submit a new transform job for the original video asset and create new blobs using Azure Media Services API, nevertheless, from a performance perspective, I reckon it could be much efficient just to clone assets on the blob layer and then publish them instead of processing them again.

Is there any other way?

Edit: Cloning videos are essential since users can edit/delete videos in their projects, however, template projects mustn't be affected.

Answer 1

UPDATE

Maybe you can read this document. You can download/upload asset. So users can edit/delete videos in their own space, and template asset won't be affected. Azure-Media-Services v3 don't have document about copying existing blob.

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Why you need to clone videos to other project? Your assets have been storaged in azure and publish on CDN. You can read directly, it's just media content. I think clone to other blob or container may cost you a lot.

I have read document about V2 and V3. In V2, it show us how to copy blobs between two AMS accounts, but V3 not. I also read source code about Azure-Media-Services-Explorer For V3, it's a good tools for azure-media-services. In this tools, it support to copy asset to another ams account or self. Pic like below,

1、Copy asset on Azure-Media-Services-Explorer

2、Choose AMS Account...

You can read source code about it if you also want to clone asset. I think it will useful to u.