Author Topic: Panther Media Upload / Contributor Back End (Read 50591 times)

leaf · « **Reply #125 on:** February 21, 2011, 05:55 »

Here's the press release
http://blog.microstockgroup.com/panthermedia-upload-tool/

leaf · « **Reply #126 on:** February 21, 2011, 05:56 »

Quote from: mtkang on February 21, 2011, 05:41

just saw their banner in microstockgroup here..

30sec per image? some websites you can do 30 image in 1 second..

Quote from: tiero on February 21, 2011, 04:14
Big new!
New upload system is on line!
Just need to try it now...

Yeah, you could do 30 images in one swoop. Depends on how many releases and things you have to attach. If you have a batch of 50 images that have all the same general info it would only take a few seconds to send in the whole batch.

diego_cervo · « **Reply #127 on:** February 21, 2011, 06:09 »

finally they did it!!!
it looks nice but I've haven't tried it out yet. Will do some uploads to test it.
Best

visceralimage · « **Reply #128 on:** February 21, 2011, 06:34 »

Sending some of mine now, seems pretty sweet. Only limitation is the max ftp size is 150 megabyte; will need to constantly watch and transfer as I have much more than 150 mb

mtkang · « **Reply #129 on:** February 21, 2011, 06:40 »

then i dont get it what does it mean '30sec per image'?

i got some server error when i try to browse around..

Quote from: leaf on February 21, 2011, 05:56

Quote from: mtkang on February 21, 2011, 05:41
just saw their banner in microstockgroup here..

30sec per image? some websites you can do 30 image in 1 second..

Quote from: tiero on February 21, 2011, 04:14
Big new!
New upload system is on line!
Just need to try it now...

Yeah, you could do 30 images in one swoop. Depends on how many releases and things you have to attach. If you have a batch of 50 images that have all the same general info it would only take a few seconds to send in the whole batch.

MikLav · « **Reply #130 on:** February 21, 2011, 08:22 »

finally they made it! However I don't get why it takes 3 hours to process the files I sent via FTP... I.e. I can't yet judge the rest of the process.

Stu49 · « **Reply #131 on:** February 21, 2011, 09:55 »

uploaded 1 image to try ! reported FATAL error !! but image still got there !?

then processed it nice and easily without having to tick the usual 1000 or so boxes

now we'll see if it gets through the system or not !!

Danicek · « **Reply #133 on:** February 21, 2011, 10:14 »

And the flood may begin...

mtkang · « **Reply #134 on:** February 21, 2011, 10:21 »

my 'images' tab is missing, i can't find any link to see where is my images and how to upload..

Team PantherMedia · « **Reply #135 on:** February 21, 2011, 10:25 »

at mtkang,

please change to the contributor portal first. You can switch to this portal in the navigation at the bottom of each page. Then select "My images" from the "Image administration" menu at the bottom of the page in the contributor portal.

Best regards,
Robert

MikLav · « **Reply #136 on:** February 21, 2011, 10:52 »

and is it possible to switch to a light background instead of black??

steheap · « **Reply #137 on:** February 21, 2011, 13:08 »

Did you see the restriction that you only have 150MB of FTP space (which turns out to be about 38 images). So the upload process now needs to include separating all the files I haven't uploaded over the past 2 years into blocks of 150MB...

As well as waiting 258 minutes for the FTP to process and then going through all the steps against each image (or at least now we can create a set of images to edit)

Why is this so hard....

Steve
http://www.backyardsilver.com

PS - anyone know if this is a hard 150MB limit or just something we need to manage ourselves?

MikLav · « **Reply #138 on:** February 21, 2011, 13:22 »

Quote from: steheap on February 21, 2011, 13:08

Why is this so hard....

Everything is relative

Compared to other sites it's still hard. Compared to the previous version of Panthermedia it's so much easier now!

luissantos84 · « **Reply #139 on:** February 21, 2011, 13:29 »

I like panthermedia but they are still a pain to upload, similar to alamy

MikLav · « **Reply #140 on:** February 21, 2011, 13:49 »

Quote from: steheap on February 21, 2011, 13:08

Did you see the restriction that you only have 150MB of FTP space (which turns out to be about 38 images).

where did you see that restriction? I just uploaded about 260MB without any problem, awaiting for import

steheap · « **Reply #141 on:** February 21, 2011, 15:28 »

I asked the site to send my user name and password for FTP, and it was in that email:

"Important :
- Avoid special characters in file name
- Edit or remove images in your FTP folder within 7 days
- Your available FTP space: 150MB (please do not exceed this)
- Please do not create sub-folders in your FTP folder"

Perhaps it is not a real limit?

Steve
http://www.backyardsilver.com

redwater · « **Reply #142 on:** February 21, 2011, 15:34 »

isn't that their review time? just kidding.

Quote from: mtkang on February 21, 2011, 05:41

just saw their banner in microstockgroup here..

30sec per image? some websites you can do 30 image in 1 second..

Quote from: tiero on February 21, 2011, 04:14
Big new!
New upload system is on line!
Just need to try it now...

CD123 · « **Reply #143 on:** February 21, 2011, 16:10 »

Hi Robert

Congratulations, I think the new interface is a vast improvement (like the link to the old Overview, as it do have some interesting info one still likes to see).

Unfortunately I still have quite a lot of images which have been in the queue now for nearly 3 weeks, so either there is a problem with my profile, or I see a problem with you handling a bigger influx of images?

gwhitton · « **Reply #144 on:** February 21, 2011, 17:42 »

Panther,

On the way to trying to improve the upload mechanism on your website, why did you make navigating the rest of the contributor pages that much more difficult, and painfully slow.

And why do you keep making it so hard to look at sales? Take a page from Dreamstime, and cut your sales report page from 3 pages down to 1.

I have done website design long enough to know, that if you got rid of all the fancy "page loading" ajax, and the collapsible menus, that have now slowed down the load times of the pages, and made it harder to get around - you would have much happier contributors.

Its almost painful not being able to make the changes myself they are so simple.

Perry · « **Reply #145 on:** February 22, 2011, 02:04 »

If I somehow manage to lose the IPTC keywords on a batch of images, how do I get them back without clicking the "IPTC" button individually on each image? (The images are not a series and have different keywords)

vii-studio · « **Reply #147 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:05 »

New upload system is great, but I can't find my images after uploaded from FTP

And after I edit my incomplete images by new system, nothing happen... still "incomplete", not "pending"

steheap · « **Reply #148 on:** February 22, 2011, 10:19 »

Hi Robert

I was the one who complained about the 250M limit on uploads - thanks for clarifying that this was an old email.

I do think the new site is a big improvement over the old approach (I had pretty much stopped uploading to Panther some time ago) but I did run into a limit this morning. I have a lot of images to upload and so when I saw your response this morning, I restarted my FTP. I did hit a hard limit at 1024MB (ie 1gig) - all files after that point were rejected with an error stating that the Quota had been exceeded.

I do need to get on the site and start adding the main keywords etc. but it does look as though there is a hard limit of FTP space.

Steve
http://www.backyardsilver.com

microstockphoto.co.uk · « **Reply #149 on:** February 22, 2011, 10:43 »

Quote from: Team PantherMedia on February 22, 2011, 04:32

Then I do have a question for luissantos84: What exactly makes uploading a pain?
Best regards,
Robert

I am not luissantos84, but just like him I think it's still a pain, although a bit less painful than before.

Pros:

- the multiple pictures editor is great;

- optional categories are great;

Cons: still too many questions asked for me, e.g.

Rechte / Bild an Bildredaktion senden
Why not signing once and forever that I am the author of my pictures? It's boring having to tick a box each time

Hauptsuchwörter (max. 8 )
I put most important words first already in IPTC - why not copying first eight words automatically?

Nachricht an die Bildredaktion
If I send a picture of a building and I don't attach a model release, then it's obvious that I am convinced that I don't need it: why having to type "Property-Release-Vertrag nicht notwendig, da Motiv von öffentlichen Platz aus fotografiert wurde" or similar each time? Ok, the German Panoramafreiheit is great but there's no need to state it over and over

Medientyp
I barely do illustrations. 99.9% of my pictures are photos, while others mainly do illustrations. Why can't I set it as default?

Freigestelltes Objekt
Can't you try to find yourself automatically if there's a lot of RGB(255,255,255) pixels on margins?

Please note that I think you did a great job and this new upload method is a welcome improvement, I am just suggesting further improvements.

Setting - or allowing us to set in profile - a default answer for each question could be a solution: just like "Emotionen der Person(en)"which is already automatically set as "undefined" is a good option for those not doing portraits.

Thanks

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Author Topic: Panther Media Upload / Contributor Back End (Read 50591 times)

leaf

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steheap

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Perry

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