Definitely need to bring contact sheets back, it's the only way to get a good idea of what the scene will entail.
Missing thumbnail contact sheets
This was a useful feature to get an overview of what a video contained. It's a downgrade for me losing it.
Is this why none of the videos are showing the preview when hoving over it? Why get rid of that? It was so helpful.
You can also remove trailer, video description and tags - nobody using it
Mathyace123 Passthrough as well. Nobody uses that /s
That really sucks if they are gone for good, I always use them.
Hairsational seems like a pretty good rationale to remove flat too
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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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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
doublevr Surprisingly CS takes significant rendering time
I'm not buying that. 48 downscaled screenshots of a scene is something a script could do in minutes. That's a drop in the ocean compared to the video encoding you guys have to do.
doublevr Also every feature takes some maintenence and qa costs - it's important we can justify it.
It's a stable feature that hasn't seen any significant change is years, what possible maintenance and QA would be needed?