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My first footage approved on Pond5

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--- Quote from: click_click on May 20, 2009, 20:31 ---I think there are quite a bunch of people on this forum who beg to differ when it comes to defining "quality" and not to speak of "collection"...
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Mr. Locke is right. I did video for a travel agency a while after college. For non-steady shots like travelings, we had a shoulder mount with oil-damped head that weighed much more than the camera. Handheld video is snapshottish. The rolling shutter is a very serious issue on the first generation video-too DSLRs. On waterfalls it would pose no problem. The 5D is already better than the D90 but still not good enough for moving horizontal edges.

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--- Quote from: melastmohican on May 20, 2009, 18:17 ---Any suggestions?
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Use a tripod.

sharpshot:
I am using adobe premier elements with my HV30, not sure how well it works with the 5DMKII.  It is cheap and does all I need.

melastmohican:
I am total newbie, so I looked at some images they displayed on front pages and it does not seems like 'cinematography' :-) Mostly time lapse videos of clouds. I wonder who is an audience for footage? Most of clips are half minute long and lots of megabytes. It could not be for websites, right?

As far as software is concerned I downloaded couple trials including Adobe premiere Elements and none of them seem to be very intuitive. I am leaning towards Magix Movie Edit Pro.

surpasspro:
Pond5 is a good site to sell footage and the majority of my income from video is from there... this month however has been especially low.  I don't know if that's due to my reduced submissions.  I've actually never had a video rejected by Pond 5, even thought I get rejections at other sites for the same file. 

Even though I want all my stuff accepted its actually a bad thing I think from a buyer's perspective.  Just glancing at other people videos there is a lot of clips with obvious camera shake and movement that would get rejected easily on a site like Revostock or istock.  I don't think there is a lot of quality control going on there.

I've just learned not to submit any videos with camera shake and ALWAYS use a tripod.  Just a tiny bit of shake will ruin a clip.  The thing that I do love about Pond 5 is that you can set your own prices and they pay 50% commission.  I use Final Cut Pro for all my editing.

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