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Neat hearing all your stories and experiences :)

Yeah Ive shot from a boat, ferry is best or large ship, smaller boat is ok if very stable and nice course
Used tripod for nighttime and its so challenging, the part about throwing away work hit home...
the part about spending hours on a night shoot and having it ruined hit home... it was an incredible amount of work,
Ive got 200 clips finished, probably 70 in the showreel, probably another 200 more clips that look okay but not worth the time..
Ive probably shot 800 clips total, hundreds of hours traveling and shooting stuff that didnt work

The processing... trial and error.... warp stabilizer.... for hours and hours

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Are they all from neighboring hills or paths or high bridges or something?

BTW, you may be suffering from lack of sales because they all seem really short to me, at least for advertising uses and such.

Like spacestockfootage said, its all bridges, paths, seawalls, beaches,etc

The short clip thing... Yeah its based on how much room I have to work with on a consistent, stable surface as well as weather constraints, sometimes the sun would come out and I would just shoot what I could :)

I tried later on to change the way I would shoot, take smaller steps,etc but that was near the end of it. I think initially I just wanted to make a showreel, I wasnt thinking what would sell and how I would sell it

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Thank you for the kind words and advice everyone!

About my processes, almost none of the clips are shot from boats and no drones were used. The final frames are usually about 5300x3400pixels and shot full frame SLR with Canon glass, probably pretty hard currently to shoot identical with a drone as travel speed was usually 6" per second which might be hard without a large drone capable of dealing with the conditions on many of the days that I shot and be able to carry a decent camera :)

In terms of 'if its viable or not as a stock', I guess I should have mentioned that Im done shooting for now, I pretty much killed my full frame Canon doing these shoots so actually looking for recoup any funds from the footage. If I lived in an amazing city like Paris, NY, etc I would have more opportunities to shoot desirable high-end footage, as for me what I have is the only extensive coverage of Vancouver and areas in hyperlase form. Ive decided to sign up on Videoblocks and Pond5 but will check out the others :)

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I was referred to this excellent forum by a veteran shooter and forum user and I'm glad to be here!

A few years ago I decided to start shooting hyperlapse, I'm not sure what the end goal was, it wasn't to sell it as stock footage I think, I was enthralled with the look of it, I was challenged by the capture and processing... 2 years later I edited down the best stuff I had and released it a few weeks ago as a "Love letter to Vancouver", got some views, did some TV and newspaper interviews (Who latched on to the love letter angle and it was a slow news weekend)

https://youtu.be/bcZ5vSg9Oj0

The idea since last year was to try and sell the footage on my own site 604scans.com and after a few sales, things have dropped off and now I'm looking at the stock footage angle. My friend has been trying to be helpful but hes into mass market, standard video clips (Kids dancing in the rain, etc) so his advice isn't as helpful as I need it to be for my footage which some of you may know, requires a lot of trial and error and massive back-end processing, since I actually remove birds, as well as generally scrapping hyperlapses with ANY jitter. Some 3-4 second clips required hours of work, so getting paid $32.78 is not appealing...

Where is the best site for my hyperlapses, based on % payout, tax withholding hassles (I'm Canadian) and general traffic?


Thank you  :)

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