I decided to start this thread in order to discuss about the state of Clips4Sale as a store.
I have been buying videos on C4S for a long time, and I think that that store is terrible.
C4S has had its limitations since forever, but in the last months it got even worse. First of all, one of the most basic features of a store that worked before now it doesn't anymore: searching a clip through the search engine. When I type the exact title of a clip, C4S fails to find the clips, and it instead returns a lot of results. This is really ridiculous, I can't believe that they expect to be paid for a service this bad.
Another limitation is that different versions (for example SD, HD and Full HD) of the same video are not merged as a single product and one can select a different version to purchase, but they are showed as separate products, so it's very annoying to scroll most stores, because most of them sell 2 or 3 (in some cases even more!) versions of the same video, making it really tedious to search videos. I guess producers are ok that the consumer experience is terrible in their stores /s
Then there is the video preview function, which is a joke. 10 second video previews, likely generated automatically, are useless 99% of the times: they are too short and most of the times they don't give a good showing of the product at all.
The new one if the streaming functionaly. It looks like videos are reencoded, and that is done terribly, especially old clips are ruined. Image quality goes down, and audio doesn't work properly. Again I can't believe how low effort C4S is.
I have been buying videos on C4S for a long time, and I think that that store is terrible.
C4S has had its limitations since forever, but in the last months it got even worse. First of all, one of the most basic features of a store that worked before now it doesn't anymore: searching a clip through the search engine. When I type the exact title of a clip, C4S fails to find the clips, and it instead returns a lot of results. This is really ridiculous, I can't believe that they expect to be paid for a service this bad.
Another limitation is that different versions (for example SD, HD and Full HD) of the same video are not merged as a single product and one can select a different version to purchase, but they are showed as separate products, so it's very annoying to scroll most stores, because most of them sell 2 or 3 (in some cases even more!) versions of the same video, making it really tedious to search videos. I guess producers are ok that the consumer experience is terrible in their stores /s
Then there is the video preview function, which is a joke. 10 second video previews, likely generated automatically, are useless 99% of the times: they are too short and most of the times they don't give a good showing of the product at all.
The new one if the streaming functionaly. It looks like videos are reencoded, and that is done terribly, especially old clips are ruined. Image quality goes down, and audio doesn't work properly. Again I can't believe how low effort C4S is.