But if you round up EVERY clip, you get close - 58 minutes. LOL

You're right... if you round up 0:10 minutes to 1 minute and 5:09 to 6 minutes, you get quite close to what is advertised 😆😆

Maybe that's what this is about..... NOT 😆

Well... as I said, it's still a great performance by Stacy, no problems about that. Hopefully someone at Totem on Monday will feel that this issue is worth a response of sorts...

I'm tempted to look at a few other cards to see if the clip times added together equal the reported total or if you have to round up every clip to get the reported time.

Yup, I just did Lena Reif's Voracious Appetite and rounding up every clip before totaling yielded the 44 minutes. That must be how Totem calulates their totals, they round up all partial minutes before adding them in.

I did check about a dozen of latest cards, and Ginebra Bellucci's latest card matches (reported playtime in minutes on details page matches the total runtime of clips page), but in all others the clip sum is 5-7 minutes shorter than what is "advertised" on card details page...

The difference is such that I believe they are simply calculating the runtime wrong in the details page. If they shoot the performances in 30 fps and calculate the total runtime assuming that 25 fps (or even 24 fps) is used, that would create pretty exactly the difference as observed.

Yup, I just did Lena Reif's Voracious Appetite and rounding up every clip before totaling yielded the 44 minutes. That must be how Totem calulates their totals, they round up all partial minutes before adding them in.

I don't think this is the problem. I checked latest Vanessa Decker card (f0397), which is advertised as 42 minutes long, but even if you sum the clip times always rounding up, you still get only 40 minutes, not 42.

I don't know, Dfner, that's about 20% decrease. It wouldn't be super noticeable in cliips without sound, but if the girls were talking, it would be very noticeable.

who knows... the only way I can get close on the cards I checked is to round up every clip before totaling... maybe a team member will enlighten us. You've got me curious.

who knows... the only way I can get close on the cards I checked is to round up every clip before totaling... maybe a team member will enlighten us. You've got me curious.

Hopefully so. I did a few random checks of some other recent card releases, and the problem is the same. If the card is being advertised as 42-43 minutes long, the actual length is around 35-36 minutes. The duration of transition clips don't explain even a small fraction of that difference.

All I want as the information from Totem is: is the card duration right or wrong?? If right, please correct the clip times or add the missing clips OR if it is wrong, correct it to match the total play time of available clips. Thank you.

The last four girls previews are a joke....no peek... no buy

Warning I got duplicates on the pack redraw...I'm out

I fell into the same trap as Aramor did. The ones I wanted to hold disappeared. Six were from my Wish List. Not cool.

Have a great weekend.😊

This is not an Official response, but it is from my own observations and tests.

Newer shows have a higher bit rate and are at 29.97 frames per second.
Older shows had a lower bit rate and ran at either 25 frames per second or 24 frames per second.
( cards produced in the USA studio had 24 frames per second - results from my own testing using FRAPS )

The internal calculation, as best I can tell is using the older 25 frames per second

the Interactive Cards, Do However, Include the Interactive clips in the total calculated time.
it is the total number of Frames of All clips combined.

And the Clip times displayed on the clip list are rounded.

So there is a combination of issues, that result in the Cards Duration, being different than it's actual Play Duration.

ALL clips have a number of frames, and the cards duration is the Total of all the frame.
From the total Frame count, the Duration is a Math result that is Displayed.

Each Clip is done the same way.
from the clips Frame count, it's duration is a Math result that is rounded up to the closest second.

The Clip list, is however using the correct frames per second value in it's calculation.

It is the Overall Duration where I believe the Math has the wrong frames per second value.

? how can I as a member tell the actual Duration?
Add the card to your previews.
It will create a data folder for that card, and in there will be a XML file
it can be opened with NotePad

Find the <duration>85433</duration> Line
that number is the total of Frames in the card.

Frames / 25 / 60 = time in Minutes - older cards
Frames /30 /60 = time in Minutes - Newer cards

85433 / 25 / 60 = 56.95 = 57 minutes
85433 / 30 / 60 = 47.46 = 47 minutes

I think the 20 days limit was the "special" in the last promo and the regular limit is 40 days (or at least close to that). So it seems that I can't participate because all I miss are classic cards and you can't participate because all your missing cards are too new.

I believe the aging is 45 days.
Yes it was reduced to 20 days on the last Slot machine.

Tout à fait d'accord avec @Amelly sur la notation de Stacy Cruz et je me joins aux remerciements de @stefnev pour la superbe production de cette semaine.

Et les miss sont superbes!

Vous êtes à l'écoute de votre communauté et ça crée du lien...

Fridays Stacy Cruz card wont download anyone else having issues.

I have 1 question:
I pay 1 credit when each draw (each I hold draw)?
or I pay all creditos (1credit x number of draw + 108 credits) only after all draws and when I hold button "add to my colection"?

Each ReDraw Cost 1 credit, Even if you Don't buy.

NEVER gamble with Totem, easy rule.

I'll keep it that way...

to be honest as a new member i like these actions. (gamble machine / hold a set of cars)
although you will spend more in total on cards you wouldnt initialy buy, overall it will grant you a cheaper way to fill your collection.

You may do what ever you like and my intention was exactly this way.

I like to chose my cards and not being ***** to deal with cards I wouldn't buy. That way I build up my collection from start.

And as we've seen in many of those events, that are prone to ranomness. The chances to spend a lot of credits for less effort (cards you like) are really high. So my very own opinion is still that I'll keep out of those.

@kleinerB - you say

I like to chose my cards and not being ***** to deal with cards I wouldn't buy. That way I build up my collection from start.

and you have the opportunity to do that every day by simply buying the cards. Why should Totem be expected to regulary provide a simple discount on top of that.

I like this sale. It gives me a discount on cards that I pick myself, not just a random set of cards. If Totem's plan was to generate more sales then it worked, in the last two days I have bought and spent 2500 credits. I have lots of new cards to watch! The only small issue I had was when I had saved 9 cards and was down to the last one when I hit redraw it would keep putting up cards I had already passed on. Still, one of the best sales yet.

Trapped with the hold / hunhold, losed the cards that for once, was nicely picked! *****

I purchased 3 booster pack redraws, today. On the 3rd set, none of the 10 cards are playable. They all have a banner running across the middle of the cards that says "Coming Soon". Has anyone else had this happen? Does it mean that I have to wait for an indeterminate period of time before I can watch these girls on my desktop? If so, how long is the wait? I didn't blow my load on multiple redraws trying to get a combination of cards that I like, just to end up not being able to play them. As appealing as these TGIF's appear to be, defects & glitches are the sole reason that I've started to limit my participation in the promotions. It's very frustrating when I don't get what I thought I would be getting. Can someone please explain to me what this "Coming Soon" thing is that I'm seeing written across unplayable cards that were recently added to my collection? Or do I have to issue yet another ticket, & wait for resolution... As much as I'd like to continue utilizing the redraw, I'm prevented from doing so by this current performance discrepancy.

Well, that's fascinating as I've been told that cards cannot even qualify for this promotion until they're 40 or 45 days old! Which cards have the "coming soon" banner for you?

@Pantylicious

In short, you have to wait until your P.C. is in the same day/date as Paris (Paris being GMT + 1 hour) before the coming soon banner goes away.

As soon as your P.C. moves into the same day as Paris you can refresh your GUI and the banners should go away.

It is a common and long standing issue that affects the weekend promos.

If you search "coming soon" in the forum search you may find more detailed explanations on the subject.

When has it ever affected anything other than new cards?

@boan000

It has been a long time since I could participate in any of the weekend promotions but when I could I ran into this issue a couple times and was frustrated about it.

To my knowledge it has nothing to do with the age of the cards purchased, only that they were purchased during a weekend promotion or special offer.

I just searched "coming soon" in the forum and there were 15 pages of results. I only paged down through the first page but if you check that out it may help answer your question more fully.