Video Settings Too Limiting

[skeletonstore]

You're trying to demonstrate an item and show it in 3D, but ebay wants your video to be 150MB,  that's too small.  You either have to cut your video short, which you might as well add another photo as 20-30 seconds is too short to explain yourself.  Or, you have to decrease the quality so the customer thinks they're playing Atari.  They do the same bogus things to our pictures by showing a lesser quality picture before a customer zooms.  Now they plan on giving us 24 awful photos?  Why not limit it to 3 photos or 6 and allow us at least 500MB per video?  Basically I have to host it on my own website and add an HTML5 code.  Who did they actually hire to come up with this nonsense?  A pitch is not fast,  it is slow and informative.  If you start making videos like you put sugar on your frosted flakes customers are going to look elsewhere.  I'd argue,  once again,  a drop in sales can be linked to ebay showing less quality images to save on bandwidth.  Ridiculous compromise.  Your 1st picture is your main pitch.  

[dhbookds]

Frankly, I wouldn't worry about video, I'd worry about improving my listings.  This item barely shows up in the gallery picture.....

Vintage Retro Halloween Horror Movie Prop Ripped Out Eyeball Décor Zombie Custom

Most of the rest of the pictures are sideways..

An this is the description: 

Horror Prop Halloween Décor Zombie Custom Life Size 19 Inches Long

 This is hand crafted and hand painted.  That was a long process.  This is one of a kind.  Exclusive prop.  

Happy Halloween!!!Happy Halloween!!!

You make these, from what I gather and they are quite impressive, but your listing really does them a disservice.....

just my opinion.........

[eunster1313]

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@skeletonstore wrote:

You're trying to demonstrate an item and show it in 3D, but ebay wants your video to be 150MB,  that's too small.  You either have to cut your video short, which you might as well add another photo as 20-30 seconds is too short to explain yourself.  Or, you have to decrease the quality so the customer thinks they're playing Atari.  They do the same bogus things to our pictures by showing a lesser quality picture before a customer zooms.  Now they plan on giving us 24 awful photos?  Why not limit it to 3 photos or 6 and allow us at least 500MB per video?  Basically I have to host it on my own website and add an HTML5 code.  Who did they actually hire to come up with this nonsense?  A pitch is not fast,  it is slow and informative.  If you start making videos like you put sugar on your frosted flakes customers are going to look elsewhere.  I'd argue,  once again,  a drop in sales can be linked to ebay showing less quality images to save on bandwidth.  Ridiculous compromise.  Your 1st picture is your main pitch.  

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Most of the videos on YouTube are no wears near 150MB.
So 150MB is more than enough. Try reducing the quality
settings on your camera, no one will know the difference
viewing it on eBay. If you can't get the size of the file down
enough you can use the settings in this freeware.

Any Video Converter Freeware

https://www.any-video-converter.com/en6/for_video_free/ 

[richwinefiddles]

I sell violins, and my demo videos tend to run 2.5  to 3 minutes at 1080P.  If I could just link to a YouTube video in the description text, that would be fine. Sometimes I can, but it seems random. I've got to be able to give a hint of the tonal range of the instrument, at least.

[mbub253]

They're idiots, I'm so sick of their garbage. Last year I was able to post a 3 minute video and today, I can't. They take away everything that makes sense and is useful to the seller. I'm so tired of this.

[downunder-61]

Very old thread

[kh-cathy]

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