Is there anyway to append 4k version to existing HD clip?
digitalemotion
18 Feb 2015 07:09
I have a number of clips that have been on Pond5 since before 4k was available (outside of R3D zip uploads). Is there any way to append the 4k versions to these HD versions, or should I delete the HD versions and upload the 4k versions? Will I lose all sale history of those deleted clips?
tiberio
28 Feb 2015 01:55
you can have videos associated but I highly recommend you don't do it.
you can contact them with the 2 clip id's and ask them to be joined.
I did this for many of my clips, hundreds if not more.
all of the stats info gets reset to zero. this includes sales, views, etc.
you lose the ability to set the prices for different clips. if you have a 1920x1080, and a 1440x1080 associated for example, and you change the price for 1, it will change the price for both
when I did some clip association, some of the clips disappeared from search results.
the clips also had their rank reduced to basically being 0. so if they were highly ranked in my portfolio, they ended up at the bottom with the lowest quality clips of my portfolio, even if they were previously highly ranked clips.
they will be sorted by the highest price, not by the lowest. so if you associate 2 clips, a 4k and an HD, and the 4k is $100 and the HD is $50, and you sort by price, it will be sorted as if it were a $100 clip, even if you sort the pricing from lowest to highest.
the good news is that when people bought lower resolutions of my footage, it was responsible for 50% of the total income. so 50% of the income was from the lower resolution, and 50% from the highest in the set.
after I discovered these issues, I stopped having clips associated.
you can contact them with the 2 clip id's and ask them to be joined.
I did this for many of my clips, hundreds if not more.
all of the stats info gets reset to zero. this includes sales, views, etc.
you lose the ability to set the prices for different clips. if you have a 1920x1080, and a 1440x1080 associated for example, and you change the price for 1, it will change the price for both
when I did some clip association, some of the clips disappeared from search results.
the clips also had their rank reduced to basically being 0. so if they were highly ranked in my portfolio, they ended up at the bottom with the lowest quality clips of my portfolio, even if they were previously highly ranked clips.
they will be sorted by the highest price, not by the lowest. so if you associate 2 clips, a 4k and an HD, and the 4k is $100 and the HD is $50, and you sort by price, it will be sorted as if it were a $100 clip, even if you sort the pricing from lowest to highest.
the good news is that when people bought lower resolutions of my footage, it was responsible for 50% of the total income. so 50% of the income was from the lower resolution, and 50% from the highest in the set.
after I discovered these issues, I stopped having clips associated.
tiberio
2 Mar 2015 16:50
actually, I think the example of the video disappearing from search results after being associated, I seem to recall that it was something that only happened temporarily and then after a week or so it came back.