Buying content

[6071842]

do many people do this? is it a reguar thing or a one off? all comments would be appreciated. Thanks!

[pa235]

I don't buy content and I have found no people to buy it when I sell it. Such is life.

[Motionreactor]

Yes I found a similar experience. The interest level in buying content is low.

[6071842]

Originally Posted by Motionreactor

Yes I found a similar experience. The interest level in buying content is low.

have you tried to sell them also?

[vjair]

this is not aimed at anyone, but is my view as a buyer:

personally as someone who does pay for some content, i think the key is to not offer me countless videos which use the presets in AE, something which is far too common in "content librarys" in my experience. there are some suppliers who i return to again and again because i can see that thier content gives me something a little different from the normal"plasma clouds" and other AE standard fare. for me the main thing i look for when buyin gcontent is that it is something that i either cannot produce or would take me too long to learn.

[robotfunk]

what vjair said.
there's too much filler available, I'd buy something if it was really special.
I wonder how much topherz sold of his dandelion disc, that's an example that would be worth buying in my book.

[Motionreactor]

Yes I've tried selling. My clips weren't presets, they were unique.. but they weren't incredibly interesting either and I only was testing the whole idea. I just don't see value for money putting the time into selling content. I'm not a VJ though, so I was only producing for sale and therefore wasn't using my own clips and getting value from producing them in that way.

I asked the question on the forum, what kinds / styles etc of content people were interested in. I got one or two serious replies and the rest were offtopic.

[vjair]

yeah, i'd agree on the dandelion disks, they have some interesting original content i have a few of them myself, and motionloops.com is another favourite of mine - realy nice renderring on the 3d stuff and some interesting alternative styes of footage on there too. i think the key to a lot of the motionloops and dandelion stuff is that a lot of it is made by VJ's, so maybe they avoid the slightly more obvious as theyve seen it all themselves.

[SteveG]

More clips on the "dark side" of things would be great, also multiple clips that you can make good narratives from if that makes sense. I'd also like to see more clear un-effected film work available so that you can add your own effects and stamp on, not just adding more and more effects to clips that allready have more than enough. Cheap clear film work with a resale license would be superb but for a realistic price......I may do this

[makemassair]

what u all said.

in partic about the uneffected stuff.