Steem Video Studio Update: Advanced settings, Upload images, Community list, and more.

Greetings,

We continue to work and improve with great affection the Steem video studio, an interface that makes it easier for creators of video-based content to publish their work on Steemit in a simple way. A few days ago we showed the beginning of this tool and since then we have worked hard to add new things that improve the experience of using the website.

Today we bring quite important improvements to this tool, we have added the advanced settings that allow you to change the reward settings of your publications and add beneficiaries. We have also added a list of trending communities, which will allow you to quickly select a community where you want to publish. And finally, thanks to the guidance of @faisalamin we have managed to integrate the feature to upload images directly to the site, in this case the cover of your publication.

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To begin with, I would like to talk about the feature of uploading images, a rather complex process that was possible thanks to the help I got by reading the Steem Pro code.

• https://github.com/faisalamin9696/steempro-next/blob/master/src/libs/steem/condenser.ts

The hard work bears fruit and here is the result of this effort, users will be able to upload the cover of their publication directly from the tool making the experience much more compact and direct. In order to upload the images it is necessary to generate a signature using a posting key. The user must enter this password and his username to be able to upload the images, we have not yet managed to perform this process using Steem Keychain, so the whole process will occur on the client side to avoid compromising the keys of those who use this feature.

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To facilitate integration with the communities we have used the API bridge.get_community to obtain a list of the featured communities of the platform and allow users to select one of them in a very visual way, if the community you want to use is not on the list you can always place the tag hive-xxxxxx to publish in any community you want.

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To complement the experience and offer a complete tool we have added the advanced functions to configure the type of rewards you want to receive, you have to choose between SBD / SP, SP, OR reject the payment directly. You can also select a maximum of eight beneficiaries in your posts.

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We have also applied numerous general improvements that increase the usability of the site, among the most notable additional features are buttons to paste what you have on the clipboard in a simple way and thus save a few steps when you are creating your publication.

The page to create publications is already taking the shape we want and soon we will start working on new pages that make this website a 100% functional site.

Once the experience of creating publications is 100% complete, we will begin to actively promote this type of content to encourage the creation of this new format throughout the platform ecosystem.

cc @joslud, @marlys13, @pennsif, @steemcurator01

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