A paid or subscriber-only video gets an automatic preview, so a visitor who has not bought it can see what it is before deciding.

If you add your own promo clip, it is shown instead of the automatic preview.

The automatic preview is shown blurred, while your own promo clip plays clear.

As the owner, you always see the real player for your own paid video.

Free public videos play normally and never show a teaser.

Private videos and videos shared only by link do not get an automatic preview.

When you turn a finished free video into a paid one, its preview is prepared at that moment.

A video that is still uploading is never cut into a preview before all of its bytes have arrived.

The same rule covers pay-per-view videos, subscriber videos and tier-exclusive videos, so every locked video invites a visitor in the same way.

Make a short promo clip around the strongest moment of the video, because a buyer decides in the first seconds.

Let the title and the description say what the full video contains and how long it runs, so the teaser and the text tell one story.

If you make a video paid while it is still being processed, its preview is prepared when the processing finishes.

Editing the title or the description of a video that already has its preview does not prepare the preview a second time.

If the automatic preview could not be prepared the first time, one more attempt is made when the video finishes processing.

A video whose processing failed or was cancelled is not cut into a preview when you make it paid.

A video that already carries your own promo clip does not get an automatic preview at the end of processing, because your clip is shown instead.

Pay-per-view lets you sell access to a single video or a single live event, and the buyer pays once for that item.

The charge is made directly on your own connected Stripe account, and the platform commission is taken as a fee on that charge.

Sales open only after Stripe confirms that your account is fully set up to take charges and to send payouts.

Until then, a buyer is told that the sale is not open yet and never sees your onboarding status or your account links.

Every purchase records the terms it was sold on before any money is asked for.

If you raise the amount later, buyers who already paid keep their access on the terms they bought.