Video previews, MGPs, etc. to promote paysite videos

[Toby]

My submit rules are the old 3 clips minimum with a total of at least 1 minute of video. It may be time to change that up. However, my submit rules don't apply to sponsor hosted galleries. I don't get many submitted video galleries anyway.

Something I do like to see when there's only one longer clip are thumbs for three or four jpg captures or matching photos. That gives a little better idea of what is on the clip besides just the one image. Plus, if it's a hosted gallery, that gives alternate images to use to make thumbs. If I list a gallery on more than one of my TGPs I prefer the thumbs to be slightly different.

One more thing... if you're using flv's instead of wmv/mpg clips the additional still images are critical, since most TGP scripts can't make a thumb for the gallery from the flv.

Ohh, and one other thing... Please make sure that one of those images can be used to make a decent portrait oriented thumb. I don't have a separate section on the main page for video galleries with portrait oriented thumbs, I just mix them with the image galleries and put a film clip icon in the corner of the thumb. If I can't make a decent portrait thumb I usually just pass on listing the gallery. Without a decent thumbnail image, the gallery just won't get many views no matter how good the clips are.