An instant streaming video page for sharing videos with clients. Would it help?

omar_

omar_

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Hey guys, I'm a long time DVXuser. Recently, we've run into a problem when sending clients video files. We use wetransfer and other FTP software to share video projects.

The problem is it takes long and believe it or not, sometimes the client is like "I can't open this" or even worse, they approve and then just take the file, without paying or without it being a high res version.

So what we created was a simple online app where we could simply drag an .Mp4 file in the browser and then it creates an instant online video page with the video streaming, viewable in any browser and mobile. Then we just send the link to the client. On the page it says "Approve" and "Comments" if they want to send us feedback.

The reason we don't use Vimeo and Youtube is only because we have to control the branding on the page.

So I'm wondering is this something I should open up access to for other video creators?

Does anyone else find this useful beside us?
 
Thanks for your feedback @dpstewart. In your opinion,

How long do you think the average video would be? And how many videos would the average videomaker send out a month?
What would be a reasonable amount to charge?

The reason I ask is that there are definitely costs to streaming videos over and over.
 
This is something you'll need many people to chime in on. I know plenty of people in production, yet I don't really know exactly how many pieces they would be displaying in a given year.
Perhaps some type of poll could be used.

Lengths will be all over the place for certain.

And some users will have pieces that by nature of the product will stream more times than others.

So, while this is still a good idea - the pricing structure will depend on data that will need to come from many sources in order to best serve your market.
 
A lot of people are already using YouTube and Vimeo for this. If you have an Adobe CC account, you can use that as well. And companies with the budget use services like MediaSilo. That doesn't mean you shouldn't start your own service, but there's already a lot of competition.

Re: clients who steal the review video and don't pay- you should be posting very lo res videos, and you should add a timecode burn or other watermark. If you place the TC or watermark in the middle of the video, they can't crop it out.
 
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