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Stock footage newbie
Teraphim:
--- Quote from: sanjiv on February 01, 2021, 17:04 ---Dear all,
I am new or very very new to stock footage, Could you please suggest 1 site for stock?
Did some photos earlier on is, ss, fotolia, dt and 123rf.
Closed account on ss and closing on 123rf.
In my mind is Storyblock or Pond 5, anyone of you experienced seniors could aide some light? Thank you.
Regards
SK
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If you want only 1 — go istock exclusive. They have their upload/submit/keywording tool (deepmeta) and this will be easier.
But if you want go professional and earn more — upload to major 5: shutterstock, adobe, pond5, istock, videohive. You can also try storyblocks. But, as I know, they don't accept new contributors. And, from professional perspective, don't accept scam advises about blackbox or wirestock. Better go iStock exclusive if you want easier way.
Gannet77:
--- Quote from: Teraphim on March 23, 2021, 03:48 ---
--- Quote from: sanjiv on February 01, 2021, 17:04 ---Dear all,
I am new or very very new to stock footage, Could you please suggest 1 site for stock?
Did some photos earlier on is, ss, fotolia, dt and 123rf.
Closed account on ss and closing on 123rf.
In my mind is Storyblock or Pond 5, anyone of you experienced seniors could aide some light? Thank you.
Regards
SK
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If you want only 1 — go istock exclusive. They have their upload/submit/keywording tool (deepmeta) and this will be easier.
But if you want go professional and earn more — upload to major 5: shutterstock, adobe, pond5, istock, videohive. You can also try storyblocks. But, as I know, they don't accept new contributors. And, from professional perspective, don't accept scam advises about blackbox or wirestock. Better go iStock exclusive if you want easier way.
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Be aware though that iStock don't accept editorial/unreleased footage, so being exclusive there might restrict what you can upload, depending what sort of material you produce, as you can't then upload it elsewhere either - although recently they did offer to take unreleased editorial footage on Getty, which would be good, though I've not done any yet. But I don't know if that offer extends to new contributors; I've been on iStock a long time.
I upload to Pond5, Shutterstock and Adobe, plus some to iStock.
Visualab:
istock for no exclusive is the worst of the big agencies...3$ rpd....
rushay:
Hi there i'm a fellow newbie on the footage front. What quality do you upload, i've tried a ProRes file but a few seconds file is huge so wanted to know if that should be the standard or can i lower the quality a bit?
Teraphim:
--- Quote from: rushay on March 25, 2021, 03:02 ---Hi there i'm a fellow newbie on the footage front. What quality do you upload, i've tried a ProRes file but a few seconds file is huge so wanted to know if that should be the standard or can i lower the quality a bit?
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Prores if you shoot 10 bit or raw. H264 if you shoot 8bit.
Some agencies (like artgrid) accept only ProresHQ. Pond5 has an option for additional raw or non graded Prores. So it's up to you. But prores is preferred.
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