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Originally Posted by Ruseful
Hi Robbie, one of the most common mistakes I see on the tubes from content owners is that they look and say "I think I should try a few 7 min clips on the tubes" and tell their editor to, or themselves make a few 7 min clips for the tubes. This is what I normally see:
They tend to grab a 7 min segment from a full scene. i.e. simply grabbing min 5-12 of a 16 min scene.
This is a scene from their back catalogue.
They do not include an ending (cum shot/orgasm etc)
Their watermarks do not stand out
Their titles are terrible
Minimal keywords/tags
They try to cram too much in the 200x80 icon and their site description is awful.
All this ends in minimal views, minimal click throughs and zero sales. A real disaster zone. These content owners then tell everyone that the tubes don't convert and they are to blame for their demise.
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I fully agree with you about editing a sample clip. It's a piece of bait on the end of a hook designed to reel in a fish.
However with 90% of the porn produced it's impossible to do this well. Most shoot 15 to 30 minute scenes, most are shot by point and shoot guys. The editor at Manwin given express instructions of how to edit the scene I shot which included a start setting the scene up and a finish proving it was all real and the model was well exhausted and happy at the end. Left those parts out. If he with instructions of what to do can get it wrong, what hope does a webmaster have?
Shooting a porn scene and having something to submit as a trailer to the site takes more than point and shoot skills. It needs a scene to have a story, structure and point. Cutting 1/3 of an average porn scene into a tempting morsel to bring traffic requires skills, skills in production and editing. And above all knowing how to build something that will
sell the product.
You can give someone the recipe to make a sponge cake, but if they only have sawdust to work with. the recipe is useless. And in an industry that for years taught us not to give away the hardcore and cum shot, you now tell us it's the best way. Were they wrong for so long?
There's one way for you to
prove your method works. strike a partnership with a few sponsors, take their scenes, post them on your Tube and make the results public. Not supporters who feel the owners of the massive Tube sites are their best bet today. A few skeptics would work a lot better.
Far-L good luck editing an amateur movie, shot by real amateurs, into something that will really bring in the sign ups.