Previewing a premade clip first

The short answer

Most clips in Premade Clips carry a free preview montage. Hover a card to watch it silently, or open the clip and play the preview in the full player, with sound. Around it sit the runtime, price, judge, categories, description and buyer ratings. The full clip stays locked until you buy.

Hover for a quick look

The fastest check is on the hub itself. Hover a card and the preview montage plays silently in place, so you can skim many clips without opening any of them.

Each thumbnail already carries two figures: the price in one corner and the runtime in the other. If you already own a clip, a green Owned badge shows instead of the price. Together with the silent preview, that is enough to rule most clips in or out.

Open the clip for sound

Hovering is silent, so it tells you little about a voice. If the way the judge sounds matters to you, open the clip and play the preview in the full player, where the sound is on.

This is also where the rest of the page lives. Alongside it you will find the clip’s runtime and price, the judge who made it, her categories, her own description of what is in the clip, and what buyers rated it.

Not every clip has a preview, so the word to hold on to is most. If one has none, lean harder on the description and the ratings.

What each detail tells you

The description is written by the judge, so it is the clearest statement of what the clip contains. The categories show where she files it, which is useful when you are comparing several of hers. The runtime tells you whether you are buying a short piece or a longer one.

Buyer ratings are worth reading as a group. The FTC’s guidance on how to evaluate online reviews is to check how recent they are and to watch for a burst of reviews over a short period of time. Apply the same habit here: a spread of ratings over time says more than a single glowing one.

What stays locked

The preview is a taste, not the clip. The full clip is locked until you press Buy for X Coins, at which point the price comes off your Coin balance and the view flips to the player. Premade rating clips, explained covers what a clip is and how owning one works.

If your balance is short when you buy, the top-up window opens in place, so you do not lose your spot in the clip.

Using the ratings alongside the preview

The preview shows how a clip looks and sounds. The buyer ratings show how it landed with people who paid. Read them together: a clip whose preview you liked and whose buyers rated it well is a safer pick than one with only a good montage.

Remember that the ratings come from buyers and reflect their taste. They are a guide to quality, not a guarantee that the clip is what you want, and that call still rests on the description and the preview.

Preview on a phone

Hovering needs a pointer, so on a touch screen the quick silent preview is less natural. Opening the clip to play the preview in the full player works the same way on any device, and it is the version with sound.

If you are on a phone, make that your default: open, play, read the description and ratings, then decide. Rate Cock on your phone covers how the site behaves on a small screen in general.

Questions the preview cannot answer

A preview montage shows part of a clip, so it cannot tell you everything. It will not tell you how the clip ends, and it does not replace the description for what the whole thing contains. If the description and the montage seem to disagree, trust the description and look at the buyer ratings.

It also cannot tell you whether the clip is about you. A premade clip is made once, so it is never a response to your own photos. If that is what you want, the clip is the wrong purchase, and premade clip or custom commission is the page for that decision.

Why the preview is free

The preview costs nothing because the clip is priced per clip and the choice is yours. There is no subscription behind it and no bundle, so you are never committing to anything more than the single clip you open.

That is also why it pays to use the preview freely. Skimming ten previews costs you a few minutes. Buying the wrong clip costs you Coins, and since an owned clip is yours for good, the only thing at stake is picking one you want.

A quick routine before buying

A short routine keeps purchases easy: hover to skim, open the two or three you like, play each preview with sound, read the description and ratings, and only then buy. The whole thing takes a minute and costs nothing, since the preview is free.

Whether a clip is worth buying at all, against a custom order, is a separate question, answered in are premade rating clips worth buying. This page stops at the preview.

One last tip: preview in the order you would buy. Start with the clip you want most, because a good first preview often settles the question and saves you from sampling the rest.