I would color correct.

Hello everyone! First of all sorry for my bad english (I am spanish native speaker)
 
I would like to know your opinions about how to upload videos to microstock sites. I mean, do you usually color correct the videos before? I take videos with Cinestyle color profile so the image is very flat and I do not know if I should make color corrections or keep them that way in order to let the client correct the video as they like.

Thanks in advice!

Tough one.Production logic says give the unaltered source,but i doubt many people will look at log or uncorrected cinestyle.
It depends also on your type of content (and take what i tell you with a grain of salt),if it's something editorial then try to do minimal color just so that it is presentable dont magic bullet it to death for instance (although one of my best sellers is graded like its going to the pride fest),and if it's a type of clip that presents an idea -well thats tricky to explain....try to see if it would have some impact as a stills photo- then perhaps you could go a bit further with color and effects or at least try to create the look of it as you think (it's) reality should be. (Again aesthetic criteria,this game is spray and pray in a sense lol)

So,logic still says no,dont do these things,but in reality i have seen (and sold) clips that are heavily color graded,with post motion and other effects so treat stock footage as something that the logic of the workflow of video production doesnt realy apply to -editing then goes to grading then fx etc etc (all these you do yourself) .

You could always offer alternative versions including the original one,but that's something complex to discuss here because i am not sure if it works,and it propably wont fly in most agencies,excluding perhaps p5 where you can link files in the description and present them the whole bin to choose from.Again not sure if this is a viable solution for you (time) and not sure if it hurts sales,where someone might see (or not see) the uncorrected or badly/not to his liking colored version and skip pages missing all your clips.

Good luck.