Edited Clips

I started life in the entertainment industry as an editor, now I do a lot of documentary type projects so I tend to "shoot for the edit." Does anyone offer three or four clips edited together as a single clip, or the same three or four clips "bundled" together?

Is that allowed? Is it a good or bad idea?

I have a couple of those. They sell from time to time but I also sell the individual clips and they sell more.
Remember the people that buy our clips may only use 2 or 3 seconds of that entire clip for what they want.
So you are giving away the rest for free so my thought is its a bad idea.


Plus the stock sites frown on it these days.

Jake

Originally P5 and other agencies asked that clips not be "bundled", each should be individual.

I get why they might frown on it, but as an editor I'm always looking for transitions not just establishing shots. For example there's an establishing shot of a truck with a boat on a trailer entering a boat dock, a second shot of the boat being backed into the water and a final close up of the boat being disconnected from the trailer. A simple sequence that get me from the land to the water so that I can sell all the great marina shots...

I'm not saying the three shots should be the same price as a single clip but maybe it doesn't have to be as expensive as the three individual clips? I'm new to providing stock footage but I've consumed a considerable amount of it and this was something that always drove me crazy. In fact, its the reason I started shooting footage in the first place.

My suggestion would be to sell them individually. Maybe put them in "collections" as sequenced shots and give the buyer the option to buy one or all.
Like this:
https://www.pond5.com/video-sound-effects-music-after-effects-photos-illustrations-images-3d-models/1/clipbin%3A736514.html?filter=psd

You can never second guess what people want. And as I said above they usually use only a few seconds of a video in a finished commercial.
So for someone to just happen to want (in your example) a full story of beginning, middle and end would maybe happen but probably not.

Jake

Thanks