# How can I manually slice up my stream and copy the pieces into Azure?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-manually-slice-up-my-stream-and-copy-the-pieces-into-azure/51467>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [June 14, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-manually-slice-up-my-stream-and-copy-the-pieces-into-azure/51467 "2018-06-14T17:04:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Deanna\_Delapasse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Deanna\_Delapasse](https://community.wowza.com/u/Deanna_Delapasse)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-manually-slice-up-my-stream-and-copy-the-pieces-into-azure/51467/1 "2018-06-14T17:04:18Z")

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Using only Wowza Streaming Engine (not streaming cloud) I need to copy the long-running streams in small sections over to Azure storage but I want the already-transcoded mp4 and not the .stream files. Is this possible? I see the ModuleMediaWriterFileMover seems to allow me to configure to break apart the live stream but I don’t understand if this should also break apart the transcoded outputs? And then I’d have to write a service to watch the folder and copy the files myself over to Azure. Is this the correct approach? Or is there a better way?