Author Topic: Clipcanvas new look, should I re upload? (Read 7411 times)

hafakot · « **on:** July 31, 2015, 03:25 »

Hi all,

After seeing first change in their site after years
I was wondering...

I have small amount (10%) of my portfolio there,
With very rare sales.

I wonder if any of you have different experience with them.

KB · « **Reply #1 on:** July 31, 2015, 12:00 »

I have about 25% of my port there, and haven't had a single sale since January 2014. I haven't bothered uploading there this year at all, but I see no reason (yet) to go and delete what I have uploaded.

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2015, 22:50 »

Quote from: KB on July 31, 2015, 12:00

I have about 25% of my port there, and haven't had a single sale since January 2014. I haven't bothered uploading there this year at all, but I see no reason (yet) to go and delete what I have uploaded.

Ditto.

dnavarrojr · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2015, 04:07 »

When they stopped letting us price or own stuff, I went from several hundred Euro a month to 1 to 3 sales a month. But in the past 6 months I've only had one sale.

Whoever is running things there is an idiot.

KB · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2015, 16:21 »

Quote from: KB on July 31, 2015, 12:00

I have about 25% of my port there, and haven't had a single sale since January 2014. I haven't bothered uploading there this year at all, but I see no reason (yet) to go and delete what I have uploaded.

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I just learned that my above statement was not correct.

I had not logged in to ClipCanvas in over a year. Today I decided to close my account, and discovered that I had had a few sales since the last sale I knew about in Jan 2014. It's not great, but I had 2 more in 2014, and 2 more this year (the last one being in May). They used to send emails to report sales, but it seems like they stopped doing that.

I requested payment, and I'll see if that happens or not. If it does, I may throw up some clips just to keep my account going.

gcrook · « **Reply #5 on:** October 10, 2015, 21:53 »

New look or not,site is -still- slower than a turtle doing pot, and sales almost nonexistent.
I wish they could get their act together.This is the only agency that has failed me completely (1year,1sale,600clips online) and for some reason i like them more than most agencies that do well for me.

KB · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2015, 00:08 »

Quote from: gcrook on October 10, 2015, 21:53

New look or not,site is -still- slower than a turtle doing pot,

I hadn't been on since the new site was introduced, and had never noticed the slowness before that. But before I posted earlier I tried to look at a clip, and it was excruciating. I was hoping it was a "one-off", or just something about my connection. So it's disappointing to hear it isn't just me.

But I will say that the few interactions I had with support in the past were all wonderful (and the two words 'support' and 'wonderful' don't often go together). I wish they could get their act together, but it must be extremely difficult in the current environment.

I wonder if the commission rate is back up to 50%? They announced a "temporary" drop to 40% in March 2014, promising to raise it back up after 12 months. If they haven't done that, then that would seem to indicate things aren't getting better there. In fact, I see now, sadly, that I can answer that question. At least as of my last sale in May 2015, it was still 40%.

helloitsme · « **Reply #7 on:** October 11, 2015, 08:11 »

NOPE. Waste of time.

KB · « **Reply #8 on:** October 15, 2015, 13:02 »

ClipCanvas paid me the entire balance due today, which was amazingly fast (I must have hit the pay cycle just right). I must say, Paypal really takes their cut. It's bad enough that the exchange rate they used for EUR to USD was 1.11 (the current exchange rate is 1.138), but they also charged an almost 4 EUR "fee" (reason unspecified). Since the balance wasn't that large, Paypal's total cut wasn't far from 10%.

I do wish ClipCanvas could get back on their feet. It's hard to justify the time to upload given how few sales I've had, however since they've paid me what they owe (unlike you-know-who), I feel I should support them by UL'ing some more clips.

gcrook · « **Reply #9 on:** October 15, 2015, 13:32 »

Yeah the thing is that when an agency has 600.000 clips and exactly 1 year ago it had 450.000 you know that things are not going to pick up.
A year ago when i started uploading there i started uploading prores and suddenly half way through the system wouldn't accept prores codec anymore only mjpeg and the rest.
When i contacted them they said they would bring this function back soon and would notify contributors but after months nothing and i guess it's still the same.
I suppose they took these codecs out to save on storage/speed.
So what can i say,they propably dont care about making money, which is both good and bad.
So i dont expect anything from them sadly.

Now that i recall, last year as well, for a period of time i was monitoring the recently sold clips daily.If these were actually the reported sales, daily quota was less than 10-20 clips at most.
Not sure what their daily quota is now.
I should reach payout in a couple of years,hopefully.

Edger Footage · « **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2015, 12:22 »

ClipCanvas seems to be sinking. Slower and slower site. Logs (contributors) out after about 3 minutes making it impossible to function. I'm not sure if it's the same on the buyer's end too. They also don't accept ProRes 422 encoded video, so I stopped uploading.
My sales history:
2013: 15 sales
2014: 8 sales
2015: 3 sales

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