Advanced Content: Video, Books, & Audio
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Do we support Video (.mp4), Books (.pdf), and Audio (.mp3) files? Yes, we sure do! They take a little more effort and this document will walk you through the needed steps.
starbeam.one protects your content so that only the buyer can view it upon purchase. This protects against someone simply right-clicking and saving your file without purchasing it. It also protects against bots from crawling and downloading files uninhibited as they can do with NFTs on the blockchain.
To start, advanced files are not supported on the Standard Market. You can instead use these on the Featured and Traditional Markets.
To Start, Turn Off Simple Mode By default, all product definitions are Simple Mode enabled to keep things... simple! Press it to toggle it off. This will display the Content Template selector under Packaging and Content:
Now that the Content Template selector is displayed press it to open the options and select your desired advanced template type. For the purposes of our documentation here we will use Video:
Assign Featured Content. Now that the advanced content type has been selected, you should now see a featured content file field. Select this and provide the content you would like to publish.
Supply optional values. Like the Featured Market quickstart, you can assign additional content to add more style to your product, such as a cover and background image. See the Featured Market quick start for more details about this.
Now for the tricky part. With images, it is easy to generate and provide a watermarked preview file for you. With advanced files, however, preview files are not supported at the moment. Thus, you need to make two additional files:
Product Preview Image - This is what is displayed in the marketplace as a thumbnail whenever your product is viewed in a catalog such as the front page. This could be the first frame of your video or one that contains the most action, it is up to you. This is displayed under Optional Values:
Supplemental Storefront Sample File - For Video and Audio files especially, we provide a way to provide a shorter sample file that gives the potential buyer an idea of what they are buying before they actually purchase it. These files should only contain a few seconds of material and be shorter than the original featured product file. This can be assigned under the Storefront Files section, selecting the pertinent file type:
Finally, if your product is already published as inventory, you can assign a sample file by getting into its details following the 1-2-3 below:
Then scroll to Storefront Files and assigning the sample file using the appropriate tab. Be sure to press Save Changes when complete to save the changes to your storefront.
