Protect videos but show description

I am looking for a way to setup a protected video membership club that will allow everyone to view the courses, have access to the first 5 videos, and then have the rest of the tutorials be protected.

My goal is the following:
Customers arrive at my site and see the extensive list of tutorial videos that I have available.
When they click on video 1-4, a popup video appears and plays.
If they select any of the courses (videos 5 and on) they will be redirected to the signup page. (I would love to have a popup signup page, but it is not necessary)
After they signup, they are redirected to the page they were on but now have access to all the content.

Things I have tried:
1. If I protect them by level, it doesnt show the list of the other options.
2. If I put content outside of the code, when the customer subscribes and comes back, they still see the misc information that took them to the membership option page.
3. If I protect by page – blocks all content, post-wont display popup video, tag or category

Udemy.com, simonsezit.com, lynda.com are all example sites of what I would like to accomplish.

I have searched for hours but couldn’t find my answer. Please help

After they signup, they are redirected to the page they were on but now have access to all the content.

Do you already have this set up? You need to see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Membership Options Page Variables (MOP Vars) and Knowledge Base » Using variables in a shortcode if not.

1. If I protect them by level, it doesnt show the list of the other options.

This should be the correct way to do this. You should protect your pages that should redirect to the Membership Options Page by level, so that if the user is allowed access if they have the correct level. Can you elaborate a bit more on what this is causing to happen? I’m not sure I understand.

2. If I put content outside of the code, when the customer subscribes and comes back, they still see the misc information that took them to the membership option page.

What do you mean by this? Are you changing the content of the page with conditionals?

3. If I protect by page – blocks all content, post-wont display popup video, tag or category

This will happen if you’re protecting the page for Specific Post/Page sales. You’ll want to set up restriction in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Post Access Restrictions by level. Is this the way you did this?

Could you help me with a solution. You only addressed what I already know and have tried but does not fix my problem.
how do I create a video turtorial site that gives everyone access to the first 4 videos but protect the remainder videos. A list of the videos need to be visible by all levels. Visit http://www.simonsezit.com/courses/microsoft/learn-microsoft-access-2007-training-tutorials/ to see a sample of what I am looking for. Thanks in advance

Hi Jill,

As I mentioned in my last reply, the correct way to do this would be to set up level restrictions on the pages that you’re trying to restrict. Based on what you’ve said, my guess is that restricting by level is causing an issue because of how you are presenting the pages with your videos in them. You must not be using an iFrame to grab this data, but rather grabbing the post’s data directly. Therefore you’ll either need to change the way you’re handling this so that s2Member can process access restrictions by actually having the user go to the page rather than into a popup, or perhaps create a template specifically for these popups within your theme.

Otherwise, if you’d like a quick fix, try protecting your videos with Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Basic Download Restrictions. Use the info under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Advanced Download Restrictions to allow the videos you’d like to be free to be accessed without permission.