Missing thumbnail contact sheets

User125855

No thumbnail contact sheet, no purchase of video.

g2kbuffetboy

jdogfunk100 There is no way this feature gets less than 150 visits a day. I personally use it 15 to 20 times a day (for 15-20 videos). Based on the above comments, your metrics are off.

doublevr
I use it multiple times a day as well. It is an extremely useful feature.

Convenient for timestamps
Great for camera position and angle references
Important for source file metadata
Extremely vital to see when a revision has been posted (there is a "RC" in the filename on contact sheet when this occurs)

I hope it comes back.

tmynx

Definitely need to bring contact sheets back, it's the only way to get a good idea of what the scene will entail.

onyxone

This was a useful feature to get an overview of what a video contained. It's a downgrade for me losing it.

db456

Is this why none of the videos are showing the preview when hoving over it? Why get rid of that? It was so helpful.

doublevr

db456 previews are being fixed

klassh

doublevr no response for the rest of us?

slrUser

Whew... Glad these are being fixed. You guys would be foolish to remove this feature. Glancing at a contact sheet can save us tons of time, and you tons of bandwidth.

Mathyace123

You can also remove trailer, video description and tags - nobody using it

Hairsational

Mathyace123 Passthrough as well. Nobody uses that /s

fuccaneer

Hairsational seems like a pretty good rationale to remove flat too

crazyfists

That really sucks if they are gone for good, I always use them.

jommy

RIP, it uses such a tiny amount of compute resources to generate thumbnails for VR videos and they are indeed very useful - no BS unlike cover artwork

jdogfunk100

It's counter-intuitive to reduce the value of a service. Most companies improve their features, not take them away. It just makes no sense at all. It's just a big 'F-You' to your customers.

jommy

jdogfunk100 It's counter-intuitive to reduce the value of a service. Most companies improve their features, not take them away. It just makes no sense at all. It's just a big 'F-You' to your customers.

Removing useful features and customer value while also increasing prices (pay to download original quality videos..) usually means one of two things..

Bad finances, cutting costs

Fattening up ready for a sale

🤷

erniescar69

slrUser I think he was referring to the tiny preview vids when you hover over a video and not contact sheets. As far as I'm aware the contact sheets are gone and not coming back. He explicitly stated near the top of this topic that contact sheets would not be implemented on the new site.

fuccaneer

jommy
Yup, loans taken out with ridiculous terms. Not being able to make the vig so they give up points in the business. Their new "partners" flex on them pretty hard so they scramble to both generate quick revenue/reduce costs and to try and find some way out of the situation they got themselves into.

BTW: I have a treatment script for "SLR: Behind the Bros" if anyone is interested.

erniescar69

fuccaneer You'd think that if things are bad for them financially they would be trying to keep subscribers, not pissing people off by taking away useful features that we like.

DVR is as stubborn as the day is long so I have little doubt that contact sheets are gone for good.

I've had annual subs for at least 6 years now, and I have always used and relied on the contact sheets to help me choose which scenes I wanted to DL. I hate the site without them, the short preview vid and 4 promo pics are useless so I simply won't be renewing.

doublevr

fuccaneer none of that. Just optimizing transcoding flow for faster releases. Surprisingly CS takes significant rendering time and slows release process.
Also every feature takes some maintenence and qa costs - it's important we can justify it.

Anyway let me see if we can move it down the list so we can release videos without CS and generate it separately later on without holding scene release

wongry

I really relied on these contact sheets to properly pick out a scene I want to watch.
Discovery is much harder without them; restoring contact sheets would help me use SLR more.

YouThotYet1996

Not many things would make me stop supporting SLR, but this is one of them. Bring it back, this was a very stupid decision. I think you massively underestimated how much these are relied upon for shopping scenes. Many trailers don't show all the content in a scene. This was a very anti-consumer move. If it won't be included on the new site either, I'm officially done with SLR.

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