Let me explain why I don't make clip "suggestions" or "ideas" on the promise that, "I would totally buy something like that."
I spent money on equipment. I use a $900 camera, a couple hundred bucks worth of lighting. I spent money on a top shelf laptop, a terabyte of hard drive, and video editing equipment.
Now onto filming... I'll spend an hour or more getting dressed. Doing hair and make-up to be camera ready. I'll spend half an hour setting up the room to film. Placing lights and a tripod at the best angles and making sure there is no clutter. Now to film the clip, usually there are some outtakes and prep shots to test lighting. It may be a 6 minute clip but so far I've spent 2 hours working on it and I'm not even close to done.
Now lets get to editing. Here I spend another hour getting that 6 minute clip cut into the best shots. Then I have to save it as multiple formats. Then I open it in another program to grab screenshots and edit those into a gif.
Now we are ready to upload. Lets upload those HD files to all my clip sites, write out pricing, a description, choose all the categories. This takes time. Add an hour.
In the end I would have spent 4-6 hours working on that little 6 minute clip "suggestion" of yours. This doesn't even take into account the fact that I need a sitter to get any of this done at all, or that I have actual paid custom clips to work on. I'm never just twiddling my thumbs looking for "ideas" of things to do.
If I price this "suggested" 6 minute clip at the standard rate of $6.99, I get 60% of that. Now I'm supposed to hope you'll remember to buy it so I get 4 WHOLE DOLLARS for all those hours of my time!!! Then I pay taxes on that so gee whiz, if I took video "suggestions" this means you expect me to work for not even $1 per hour. Now lets factor in what I spent on equipment and I would be netting spare change per hour!!! Get it?
So, Now you know!! And now that you know this, you can see how very reasonable my custom order rates are. Feel free to take that suggestion and make it a custom order as it should be, here.
As a side note, this is also why it is not cool to share my files on tube sites or fetish forums. (Yes, I see you.)
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