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General Stock Discussion / Re: download your own images/videos
« on: December 03, 2018, 07:17 »
No help now, but for the future why not just keep a folder with all fully keyworded files (jpg version) on your drive? No need for another export, all ready to upload. Cost of disk space is not an issue any more...
I also do that, but only recently and not all images are there. And for sure I will continue having this folder just in case for the future :)
But this is valid only for the Images. To have the same folder for Footage is too much. Even though the cost of disk space is not that big anymore, the files are huge. If I keep both original and exported files this will fill up my storage too fast.

What about you guys? Has anyone else faced this problem? To transfer your portfolio of images to a another or new stock agency? How did you tackle this?

Thanks :)

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General Stock Discussion / Re: download your own images/videos
« on: December 03, 2018, 03:03 »
The problem is not that I have lost the metadata. I use the Adobe Bridge to burn the metadata to the files and it is always there. The problem is that I have to go back and export all the images again from RAW to Jpeg. We are talking about thousands of files. This will take to much time.

Again, use Lightroom.  I typically export 100 at a time, simply because many agency submission systems choke on more than 100.

Create one export preset -- max jpg quality, etc.  Call it "stock" (or whatever you want).  Now select 100 images in Lightroom. Right-click, choose export->stock.  It will take about a minute to export 100 images with all the info, in whatever folder you have told it to use (my 'stock' preset goes to a folder I call 'stock upload' -- creative, ain't it?)

Now you go down your list of agencies and upload that 100 images.  I typically have a FTP program open and send to all those agencies, and a browser window with half a dozen tabs for all those agencies.  Set them up, and go have dinner.

Return when the uploads are complete, and then go to each agency for the final cleanup of your batch submission. 

Now onto the next batch (I tend to just do 100 per night, wait a few nights, then do another 100).

Unless you want to pay someone like StockSubmitter (and then spend hours trying to fix the mess it makes...), that ain't no easier way than this.

I use the same workflow with Lightroom. But again this will take a lot of time. Imagine going folder by folder exporting the images + the computing time for the export. We are talking about thousands of images.

The easiest way would be to download all the exported images with the metadata from another agency. But it seems that this is not an option.

What about csv metadata? Does anyone have an idea? I need this for the footage files.

Thanks


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General Stock Discussion / Re: download your own images/videos
« on: December 02, 2018, 15:48 »
The problem is not that I have lost the metadata. I use the Adobe Bridge to burn the metadata to the files and it is always there. The problem is that I have to go back and export all the images again from RAW to Jpeg. We are talking about thousands of files. This will take to much time.

Also the csv will help a lot for the footage files.

Unfortunately I dont use MostPhotos.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

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General Stock Discussion / download your own images/videos
« on: December 02, 2018, 06:32 »
Hi,

Does anyone know if any of the popular agencies allow you to download your own content (images and video) in bulk? The only one I found out that allows this at all is depositphotos, but there you can only download files one by one.

Also do you know if any of them have the option to download the metadata in any type of format (csv or other)? I could not find any agency that has this feature.

The reason I am asking is because I want to transfer some of my photos/videos to some new agencies and I do not want to go back to my archives and export all of the files again. To download them from already submitted place would be a lot easier.

Thanks in advance

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