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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: jjneff on December 02, 2015, 17:57
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Feel free to message me on this. I am looking for a good csv template I can use for SS, Pond5 and others. can I build one template for all? if not which should I use and the best way to modify it for other sites. Thanks. Yes looking at the non-exclusive route.
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most agencies have a template and you can use it across several agencies
http://support.shutterstock.com/contributor/articles/kbat02/000006573?l=en_US&fs=RelatedArticle (http://support.shutterstock.com/contributor/articles/kbat02/000006573?l=en_US&fs=RelatedArticle)
just use the headers and it should be working for ss p5 and vb etc
https://d2i4u47g2f6j3d.cloudfront.net/extras/documents/videoblocks-sample-csv.csv (https://d2i4u47g2f6j3d.cloudfront.net/extras/documents/videoblocks-sample-csv.csv)
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The headers are different for each site what is the best work around or will the site ignore the extra boxes
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Filename description keywords are the same is all you need
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Thanks, I think I have got it!
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I use one master file with most of the information on the first sheet and then have sheets for each agency with their respective columns. I just put formulas into the other sheets so they automatically get all their information from the first sheet.
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The best thing is use Expressions Media for your master captioning/keywording program. It has many many options to output the metadata in whatever order you want from which you can generate CSVs very easily for any agency.
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does that work for video files?
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does that work for video files?
It works for all kinds of media. There is a glitch with one codec at 4k I have seen which may be an issue. There are workarounds for this but other than that it's quite nice. I find it becomes the central hub for distribution since its easy to drag whatever media you want off to an ftp uploader. I wish there were one really good asset management system. It sure isn't Lightroom.