Preparing content for upload

Bulk uploading usually breaks on the content, not on the phones: the wrong format, the same file on every account, an empty caption. This article is about preparing videos and text so that a publishing task runs through without manual fixes on each device. Below you will find the file requirements, the logic behind handing clips out to phones, and the order in which a file lands in the gallery.

What the app does with content, and what it does not

Lusiesta Studio does not edit video. There is no trimming, no watermarking, no automatic uniquification and no caption generation. The app takes finished files from your computer drive and finished caption lines that you prepared in advance.

What it does do: it hands clips out to devices one at a time, wipes the phone gallery, puts the file into the camera folder, runs the publishing scenario inside the platform app, and pulls the account name and the post link out of it for the "Statistics" page.

Video file requirements

• Vertical 9:16 - one format that works for TikTok, Reels and Shorts alike. A horizontal clip will be cropped by the platform or shown with bars.
• MP4 is the most predictable container. The "Select video" dialog accepts mp4, mov, avi, mkv, webm, m4v and 3gp, and the hint in the drag-and-drop zone mentions MP4, MOV, AVI.
• Length: clips under a minute pass equally well on all three platforms. Longer formats are accepted too, but platform limits change from time to time - check the current requirements before a bulk upload.
• File size: every clip is transferred to the phone over the USB cable. The heavier the file, the longer the transfer takes and the more obvious the difference between a good cable and a bad one.
• The file name on the computer can be anything, including non-Latin characters. During the transfer the name is replaced with a numeric one, so alphabets other than Latin cause no trouble.

Why you cannot post one file to every account

The same file, the same caption and a post published in the same minute across dozens of accounts is the most obvious sign of a farm. Platforms compare more than the file itself: they also look at behavior - posting time, IP, how fast the caption is typed.

The practical conclusion: prepare a separate clip for every account in advance. No software can guarantee that an account will avoid restrictions - but different content, different text and posts spread out over time remove the crudest matches. Individual proxies on each device and a warm-up before the first upload cover the other half of the job; the network side has its own article: why every device needs a proxy.

Captions and hashtags

Captions are prepared in advance, exactly like the videos. In the "Media" section of the "New publication" page, switch to "Local folder" - a "Captions" block appears under the file list with the hint "One caption per line".

1. Enter the captions as a list: one line, one caption. Hashtags go into the same line, there is no separate field for them.
2. The first line of the list goes into the current publication.
3. Turn on the "Delete after use" toggle and its "Caption line" option if you want a used line to be struck off so the next task picks up the next one.
4. Next to it there is a "Video" option - it deletes the file itself from the drive once the clip has been used.

Without a caption the task will not start: the app answers "Add a caption for a local publication". On the phone the text is pasted through the clipboard by the Siesta input agent, so emoji and non-Latin text arrive in the caption field intact.

Where to get the text. Put together 30-50 caption variants for your niche in advance: your own wording, questions to the viewer, short intros. Spread them across lines and turn on deletion of the used line - then the same caption will not land on two accounts in a row. The app does not generate captions; you prepare the text and the hashtag sets yourself.

How clips are handed out to devices

The upload engine follows one rule: one task = one device = one video. A batch is never pushed to a phone: exactly one file is taken from the shared queue.

• Start a publication on 10 phones with 500 clips in the folder and 10 different clips will be taken, one per device.
• The next run picks up the next files in order, not the same ones.
• If clones are enabled on a device, every clone takes its own separate video from the queue - and the gallery is wiped again before each one.
• The queue position is tied to the video folder. Rename or move the folder and the count starts over.

How a file gets into the phone gallery

Before every clip the engine runs the same sequence, and you do not have to do anything by hand:

1. A full media wipe on the phone, so the scenario is guaranteed to pick the right clip in the gallery instead of an old one.
2. Transfer of the file over USB into the device camera folder under a safe numeric name.
3. A media library rescan request, so the gallery shows the new file immediately.
4. Launch of the publishing scenario in the platform app.

The same operations are available manually in the "Quick actions" panel on the right: "Upload to gallery" sends the selected files to the devices (with several phones the files are handed out in a round robin), and "Clear gallery" removes media from the device.

The phone gallery is wiped completely before every clip. Do not keep photos or videos you care about on working devices - they will be deleted.

Where to keep your source files

• Keep the clips in a dedicated folder on a local drive. Network folders and synced cloud folders can serve a file slowly or swap it during the transfer.
• One folder, one queue. If you work with several niches, split the content across different folders and switch the folder in the "Media" section.
• Remember that the "Delete after use" toggle with the "Video" option physically deletes the file from the drive. If you need the source files, keep a copy elsewhere.

Checklist before your first upload

1. Clips are vertical, in MP4, and different for different accounts.
2. The files sit in a single local folder that you are not planning to rename.
3. The caption list is ready and has at least as many lines as the publications you plan.
4. There is no personal media on the phones that you want to keep.
5. Devices are connected, the agent is installed, proxies are assigned, and the accounts are signed in manually inside the apps.

All that is left is to create the publishing task: the steps are covered in uploading to TikTok and creating and running tasks.