It's when it's withholding for taxes in other countries that can be an issue. If your country has a double taxation treaty with the country that is withholding tax, then you should be able to offset if against what you owe in your own country. You're pretty much out of luck if you live in a tax free country though, or there's no double taxation treaty.

Add a saturation effect, set it to 100 and then do a pixel by pixel comparison.

There was yesterday. It's the same photo as well, just without the watermark. Looks like they may have been using placeholders and forgot to update them before the site went live.

Just on the subject of advanced  codecs with more options and features... what options and features do you need, aside from it producing a watchable video file?

"Do you have a portion/room of your home office set for tax purposes as business property use?"
Not anymore.  I quit last November.
 
How low would my income have to go before it would no longer be considered a business?   $50 a year?  $100?

You can make less than $0 and you'd still be considered a business. Lots of companies make a loss during a tax year, but they're still businesses. Not entirely sure what you'd need to do to stop being a business... maybe remove all your items for sale. Maybe there is some magic hobby number you can get below. Maybe something else... not too sure.

What is and isn't a delivery codec varies depending on who you speak to, but in most cases it will be something with low compression and a relatively high file size. I'd say H.264, whether a mov or an mp4, would be an intermediate codec (the kind of thing you'd send to the client for approval rather than for the final files) rather than a delivery codec... although in this instance it's also an acquisition codec.

The only thing that's set in stone is what constitutes an acquisition codec, as that's whatever your camera uses... and they can vary in quality, mainly when it comes down to the bitrate used. It's rare people ever upload acquisition codecs to stock sites though, as they need trimming or color correcting. As far as I'm concerned, the instant you edit it and render it out again, it can no longer be classed as an acquisition codec, even if it is the same actual codec used.

If you are uploading the file 'as is' from your camera's memory card, then that's great. As mentioned, you're not going to upscale the quality by using a different codec, so you may as well do that. The mistake that I think people are making, is assuming that the H.264 from your camera is the same as the H.264 you're outputting from your Premiere, or Sony Vegas, or FCP or whatever you're using. Sure, it's the same codec, but the standard output settings make it a very small, compressed file.

Your 4K camera should be recording at a minimum of 40Mb/s, so if you're rendering a 30 second clip at 100Mb, then you're losing masses of data. If you can change the minimum bitrate in your software, then do that... if you can't, then I'd go with Photo JPEG, or ProRes if you can. And if you're increasing the bitrate so it;s close to Photo JPEG, you may as well just use Photo JPEG instead.

I can't see it making a massive difference in sales, but if I was completely torn between buying one of two clips, and one was H.264 and the other one was Photo JPEG, I'd go with the Photo JPEG. 

Started well and seems to have been dropping steadily. Won't be my worst month in the last year or so, but will be a close second or third.

Sure....

Good find on the numbers, that's pretty much spot on! But just to clarify, I said $2,800 to $3,850... not $4000. Not a massive difference, but it can add up over a year. I do make extra money doing freelance work though (custom space shots here and there, logo animations, a bit of editing and VFX from time to time), but I'm 39 in a few months, so I'm trying to take it easy at my age. Don't want to over do it.

So that could mean an extra $250 a month or an extra $5,000 a month... or $0 a month. Depends on the gig and how motivated I am to work, which usually isn't very much. There are horses to be ridden, seas to dive, balls to pot, temples to explore, shots to putt, PS4 games to play... and the world's scotch supplies aren't going to drink themselves.

I may have confused the matter with the cost of cigarettes in Australia being $900 a month, and then explaining what you can get in South East Asia for that same $900. I don't earn $900 a month... I earn around $2800 to $3850 a month selling stock, plus my freelance earnings on top.

So yes, $9000 a year (when living in a country, time period, or on a planet that has and/or had a ten month year), would be a bit of a stretch... but having a minimum of $33,000 (and a realistic amount of $40K+) a year, gives me a lot more flexibility.   

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on March 29, 2017, 04:43

On the whole, most countries in Scandinavia are more expensive than the UK, France and the US. Even for big cities... according to Numbeo, there are five Scandinavian cities that are more expensive than New York, which is the most expensive out of the whole 'London, Paris, New York, Monaco etc' selection.

Specially if you like a drink or two!!! Its really property prices that kill it in London......if you avoid posh restaurants bars etc.

I do like a drink! Cheapest drink on my travels was $0.25 for half a pint of beer at happy hour... normal price was $0.50. Most expensive was $11.50 a pint, with cocktails approaching $20 (that was a cheap'ish' pub - clubs would have been a lot more). Crazy!

Although, I think I paid 9 Euros for a pint in Sweden in 2002, which would have been nearly $11 at the time, so it's possible it's a lot more than $11.50 there these days.

On the whole, most countries in Scandinavia are more expensive than the UK, France and the US. Even for big cities... according to Numbeo, there are five Scandinavian cities that are more expensive than New York, which is the most expensive out of the whole 'London, Paris, New York, Monaco etc' selection.

Or Australia. Probably couldn't afford to live there, especially as a 20 a day smoking habit will set you back $900 a month... before you even start thinking about rent and general living costs!

I can get my rent, bills, food, half a dozen beers a day, and cigarettes in Cambodia for less than $900 a month!