Author Topic: Length of video sold on stock sites (Read 6392 times)

ljupco · « **on:** May 27, 2009, 03:19 »

Have a quick question. Does anyone know what length the videos sold on stock sites should be ? Are there any limits ? Any preferred size or format ? Just got myself a 5D MK II and would like to shoot a video or two but don't know anythinhg about these things. Thanks in advance and regards from Macedonia, Ljupco

sharpshot · « **Reply #1 on:** May 27, 2009, 03:31 »

I know revostock has a 15 second limit and istock have a 30 second limit. I keep most of mine just under 15 seconds, as any longer than that makes the files huge and I am not sure the buyers need longer clips. Fotolia have a 300mb upload limit and that limits the length of the clip.

ason · « **Reply #2 on:** May 27, 2009, 04:41 »

RevoStock have change the limit to 20 seconds!
/lena

ljupco · « **Reply #3 on:** May 27, 2009, 04:47 »

That's good to know. Thanks guys

Ivelin Radkov · « **Reply #4 on:** May 27, 2009, 06:53 »

So if I shoot my clips under 20 seconds I can upload them on all the sites accepting stock footage? I will try to make my first with the new firmware upgrade for 5D mark II.

RacePhoto · « **Reply #5 on:** May 27, 2009, 10:05 »

Quote from: Ivelin Radkov on May 27, 2009, 06:53

So if I shoot my clips under 20 seconds I can upload them on all the sites accepting stock footage? I will try to make my first with the new firmware upgrade for 5D mark II.

Microstock = "Masters of the 19 second video"

I was going to try an animation and now I know what I should plan for, frames/frame rate = 19 seconds.

At 28 fps a 2gb card that holds about 500 images, will shoot a 17.8 second animation. COOL!

Now I need to figure out the interval so the motion is smooth.

louoates · « **Reply #6 on:** May 27, 2009, 17:05 »

Anyone know of a good online tutorial regarding clips for microstock?

ason · « **Reply #7 on:** May 28, 2009, 05:11 »

this learned me a lot about codec and some technical stuff.
http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19043

/lena

Jonathan Ross · « **Reply #8 on:** June 01, 2009, 09:45 »

Thanks Ason,

Great Post! Very informative.

Jonathan

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Author Topic: Length of video sold on stock sites (Read 6392 times)

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