I got paid as usual. Pretty average amount. Sales reporting has been down a couple days.

Use Google image search and use a thumbnail of your clip. I just found a few productions that way.

Or search your username. I think that's it.

no..

it's because you all came here to brag about your sales and people who weren't even aware of videoblocks learned about that site which automatically created competition for you..

everybody wants a piece of the pie.. once people hear it's a good site, they will flood that site with their own content..

if you are having great sales on a given site, the most important way to maintain your sales is;

to "not announce that site on public forums" 

Well said. It's hard to resist the urge to scream out your good sales to the world.

Oh, so I'm not the only one? I just thought sales were bad, so that's kind of a relief. It has happened a few times before just before payday, but not several days like now. I usually sell multiple files every day.

Funny how his first posts are about getting ripped off...

Anyone with a big twitter account who can annoy him?

They always report three days after (with a few exceptions), with an e-mail usually around the exact same time. It has never been real-time.

Sometimes, however, the system seems to skip a day and adds those sales to the next day. It's never faster than three days. This usually happens around payday.

iStock has been ok for me recently. I get a few sales from Fotolia and Motion Elements, but nothing to write home about. Most of my sales are from VideoHive, as I had a large exclusive portfolio there before I started focusing more on non-exclusive last year. Aside from them, I've not found a site better than Pond5 for video... VB is looking promising though, but time will tell.

You mentioned your portfolio at VideoHive is exclusive, so I take it those 274 clips aren't available at the other sites. This makes it hard to compare. Maybe you made more commercially successful items for VH?

Sorry what is 'relfex'? I tried to google for it but found nothing related to video camera.

It's reflex, and by that he means a DSLR.

You won't get perfectly smooth results with the GoPro because it can't shoot in fully manual mode. This will result in ugly flicker almost every time. Any small light change will give you flicker that's a pain to remove, and it will almost never be perfect.

If you're not looking for perfectly smooth, then anything will do. Just remember that anything set to "Auto", whether it's white balance, shutter speed, aperture, etc. will make the time-lapse look quite unprofessional.

The only thing that will give you smooth, nice, time-lapses is a real camera, like a DSLR or mirrorless that can shoot in full manual mode. There are many small ones these days and it doesn't have to be a very expensive one.

If there's an app for your smartphone that lets you do a time-lapse with FULL control over every setting (and lets you LOCK it), that could work really well. So far, I have always found something that ruins it though, but haven't checked all the apps in a while...

Given the choice between an action cam and a smartphone I would pick a smartphone and try to find a good app. Still pictures from the GoPros aren't that great, and a good app might let you have the control you need over a smartphone.

Quote from: KnowYourOnions on February 22, 2016, 16:16

I wonder, is this list completed and accurate?

I would guess it represents just a very small percent of total monies owed to contributors, as surely the majority do not come to MSG. Or am I totally wrong? I guess there's no way to know for sure.

That is probably very true. I only first found this forum when I was searching for "Revostock payments". I think it's safe to assume that the amount owed is at least $100,000.

$49 per month.  This P5 product has almost 2x the videos and is 1/2 the price of videoblocks...Thoughts on how this analysis is wrong?

Yes, Videoblocks costs $99 per YEAR = $8.25 per month with unlimited downloads.

Pond5 costs $349 to $599 per year for 60-120 downloads.

Quite a big difference and not even close to competing on price...

But I wouldn't book a hotel on the basis of CGI or a render

You probably already have. 

People and other living things are hard to make 100% realistic still but architecture can be rendered so you absolutely cannot tell the difference. Especially still images.

Check out this awesome video:

The lawsuit happened a long time ago now. He said himself that at least this year OUR money was spent on "new marketing methods", going to forums etc., not covering legal fees. I think he was an honest guy but kind of broke down and panicked. Made some horrible decisions involving stealing other people's money. I think he's going to have a tough time now since he's not really anonymous, anyone can message him on Facebook etc.

Well, that would be the "tax man" for each and every country the authors are from. That's not really the issue here though so let's not get too far off track.