So I'm a n00b at movie galleries...
 

If you feel like being helpful, please comment on the following things (I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be interested):

1. I'd love to hear what software you guys are using for cutting vids, and making thumbs out of them, if you don't mind sharing...

2. what do you use to protect your videos from hotlinking bastards? hotlinking is annoying with picture galleries and I bet it's 10 times more annoying with movies...

3. Is it really a lot easier to make sales with movie galleries? get more traffic? partner accounts?

4. Sponsors that offer movie content and free hosting fot movie files, feel free to post here..

5. feel free to give any other tips or advice...

1. TMPEnc to chop up videos and SnatchIt to make thumbs - photoshop to touch them up
2. http://antihotlinking.com/
3. I've never promoted pic galleries, only movie galleries so I have no way to compare. I've very happy with movie galleries...all about those partner accounts. Mostly paid though
4. Almost all sponsors offer free hosting and movie content these days, just gotta ask ;)

i dont do pics anymore

Tip #1: Always keep your individual clips at least 1MB or larger (usually around 14 seconds is the norm for a single clip).

thanks for the replies so far....

I'd have to totally agree on these points above. :thumbsup

to cut/encode the movies I'm using videocharge.
I make the thumbs from pics, I don't like vidcaps quality.

I I'm noob too in movie galleries, but in thumbs galleries of course NO :P

I fuckin hate cutting movies, pain in my ass. I would rather pay someone. But I do use the photoshop cutter, video project or something?


Hell I dont know. I hate cutting movies into clips... did I say that already?

hehe yeah that's probably the most annoying part of the job

1.I've used TMPEGnc or whatever it's name was in the past, and since ~2 years I'm using EO-Video to cut Movies. It splits Movie files into clips automatic and is able to handle a lot more things etc. so it's a nice tool.
For the Thumbs I'm using Photoshop, and do them by hand. I think it's important that they look good, cause they are more or less that what should make the surfer curious and willing to sign up.

2.I don't use any hotlink protection, IMHO most hotlinkers try to find victims where they can hotlink an entire collection of movies at once like

yourdomain.com/mpeg1.mpg
yourdomain.com/mpeg2.mpg
yourdomain.com/mpeg3.mpg
yourdomain.com/mpeg4.mpg
yourdomain.com/mpeg5.mpg

if you rename them in a random way it's not possible for hotlinkers to find the entire set, they can only hotlink the movies they find in your gallery, and that doesn't hurt too much. So that's my hotlink protection :)

3.I don't think that it's easier to make more sales with Movie Galleries, you'll make more sales if you show movie galleries to TGP surfers, cause you show them something special. But on a common MGP with tons of other Movie Galleries you'll not convert better. And in the end I make pretty much the same with either Movie or Picture Galleries.

4. Have fun finding them, many sponsors either offer too small movie files (should be above 1.5MB), or too small sets so you can't make an gallery out of them (at least 3 Movies of 1 set would be good)

You can try out Braincash, or take a look at some AENs and build your own Site

thanks for the input and that's an interesting opinion regarding the hotlinking

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Pleeeeeaaaaase , Hotlink ALL my video clips .... I am looking for traffic....
Just make sure to add an intro ( Such movie at suchsite,com ) and a watermark ( or text) on the full clip...

Virtual Dub, Vegas 5.0 , Videocharge will do that.... :2 cents: