Making money aside... maybe they just consider some vids really good and worth a relook.
I've noticed numerous studios doing this on clips4sale?
Is business this bad that you have to go back to page 40 in your studio, pick a clip, then re-upload it to page 1 as a new clip?
Comes off a bit dishonest in my opinion
It also keeps your company near the top of Clips4Sale, since it tends to go by recent updates. If a company releases one new video a week but re-releases 3 others, that's four times it gets bumped.
In other words, it's good business sense.
though I don't understand why that's possible
It's possible for a multitude of reasons.
For one thing, producers may have upgraded their software to allow for better processing. F'rex, back when I was muddling around with video editing I had a very basic suite that did little more than let me muck with sliders. Now that I do FX work I have a full package that does white-balancing, noise reduction, recoloring, and a whole host of other effects, and the end results are like night and day. Sometimes you have a really good clip that needs some retouching, and it's worth doing because we all know how the community loves to cry about video quality.
It's also possible because maybe the original clip was recorded in a particular format that C4S doesn't support, and the conversion caused a loss in quality. Newer software packages (and more experience from the producer) allow for more accurate recoding.
Finally, Clips4Sale's technical specifications for allowable videos - bitrate, length, file size, etc. - have changed over the years. A clip that was originally squashed down to low-res in order to be uploaded at all can now be re-released in its original, hi-res format to be enjoyed anew.
Technology and experience marches on. It'd be a shame of we couldn't re-process old works to make them better than they were, IMHO.
How far can things be improved? From my understanding you can manipulate the conditions that the source material was recorded (the camera, lens, light exposure, e.t.c) but how much can be improved? Not sure. I know with audio you can process things throughout, but if you're trying to make a sound completely different, the source material dictates how far you can go.
Finally, Clips4Sale's technical specifications for allowable videos - bitrate, length, file size, etc. - have changed over the years. A clip that was originally squashed down to low-res in order to be uploaded at all can now be re-released in its original, hi-res format to be enjoyed anew.
Technology and experience marches on. It'd be a shame of we couldn't re-process old works to make them better than they were, IMHO.
How far can things be improved? From my understanding you can manipulate the conditions that the source material was recorded (the camera, lens, light exposure, e.t.c) but how much can be improved? Not sure. I know with audio you can process things throughout, but if you're trying to make a sound completely different, the source material dictates how far you can go.
It's possible for a multitude of reasons.
For one thing, producers may have upgraded their software to allow for better processing. F'rex, back when I was muddling around with video editing I had a very basic suite that did little more than let me muck with sliders. Now that I do FX work I have a full package that does white-balancing, noise reduction, recoloring, and a whole host of other effects, and the end results are like night and day. Sometimes you have a really good clip that needs some retouching, and it's worth doing because we all know how the community loves to cry about video quality.
It's also possible because maybe the original clip was recorded in a particular format that C4S doesn't support, and the conversion caused a loss in quality. Newer software packages (and more experience from the producer) allow for more accurate recoding.
Finally, Clips4Sale's technical specifications for allowable videos - bitrate, length, file size, etc. - have changed over the years. A clip that was originally squashed down to low-res in order to be uploaded at all can now be re-released in its original, hi-res format to be enjoyed anew.
Technology and experience marches on. It'd be a shame if we couldn't re-process old works to make them better than they were, IMHO.
How far can things be improved? From my understanding you can manipulate the conditions that the source material was recorded (the camera, lens, light exposure, e.t.c) but how much can be improved? Not sure. I know with audio you can process things throughout, but if you're trying to make a sound completely different, the source material dictates how far you can go.
It is true that some producers may simply be correcting/improving older clips, which is a legitimate reason for re-releasing them. However, a number of the larger producers on C4S (not necessarily tickling producers) do simply recycle the exact same clips as a matter of routine. They basically delete and then re-add them as if they are new, giving them that bump that goes with each new release. Again, this became so widespread that C4S banned the practice although it still goes on.
As for file sizes/formats, C4S have actually become stricter on this, introducing more size limits and restricting the use of older, less commonly used video formats.