A basic content management membership site with image previews and video downloads

I've been testing several youtube clone sites for my video content but it turns out a lot of members who sign up find it complicated. They are asking for a more simple site that shows the weekly updates.. And several preview images for each video as well as a simple download link that members who subscribe to a subscription can have access to down the video clip. Does anyone have any suggestions on a simple script that can do this. Updating is the key here when I add a new video it would be nice if the script can automatically pull several JPG images from the video and I could add the title and description manually. The videos would be in original format and members who pay the subscription fee would be able to download the video. No preview videos, no streaming just a basic membership site.. Any advise would be apprciated.

 

On that type of website is anything but a simple script . You have multiple features and each on has it's own complexity unless you're gonna start hacking and slashing you're not gonna find that "perfect free script"

 

Any suggestions on a script that can be purchased in that case?

 

Drupal would be a good choice, because it has the "User groups" feature with high control over permissions for each group (for your subscriptions feature). I'm sure that configuring a few modules later, you will come quite close to what you need.

You could, of course, hire a developer who is not afraid to write a custom module and theme file or two to make this work exactly like what you need...