You will not be able to believe any news backed up with videos, sound or photos anymore. Video, sound and photo evidence in courtcases will become useless

This isn't really a new issue. Similar sorts of image deception has been going on for a very long time now - especially with digital photography and software like Photoshop with image manipulation. Quite a few reputable newspapers and magazines have been guilty of using such software to lift certain elements from one image and add them on to another image to make a news story more dramatic or appealing. This is done with sports photography and I recall one example of natural disaster where a father holding a child on his shoulders was pasted on to a photo of a bush fire. National Geographic admitted to shifting the position of one of the pyramids in a photograph taken in Egypt. This sort of stuff has been going on for many years.

And discussions about the legitamacy of using photographs as evidence in court cases has been going on since at least the 1990s (with the advent of digital image manipulation.) Also, the internet has been filled with all sorts of heavily manipulated images for a very long time (blending fact and fiction.)

And before digital image manipulation became a thing, people were creating fakery in their photographs with more traditional means. Deceiving people with photographs is certainly nothing new. Remember that old story about the young girls who supposedly photographed fairies in their garden in the early 1900s? Many people were fooled by them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

in the US it's the reverse the photographer/creator automatically owns the copyright

Yea here in Australia, it's very much the same generally. The person who takes the photograph owns the copyright to the image. The exception is if a client pays you money to take photographs for him / her. In that case, copyright of the images is transferred to the client.

Always consistent sales and always part of the top MS agencies.

It's good to hear that you're getting consistent sales. You must be one of the few that do. For many people like myself, sales on DT are far from a regular occurrence. They are super slow. Though I will still contribute to DT (even after I reach payout.) All those sales do add up over time. It's still money in the bank. And the commissions are some of the best around for microstock agencies.

By the way, I'm not all that far from reaching my first payout there. I'm still hanging in there. Maybe in the future, I will have multiple payouts (though I know that will take an eternity!)

Last month I got around $1200 from Adobe. Previously that would have been 1200�. But instead only around 1050� on my PayPal account, so I lost 150�.

That does not seem right at all - or fair. Regardless, it sounds like you're doing extremely well with your sales. I'm assuming that you have a huge port with thousands of files?

Then I realized the description looked familiar and looked at one of my images of that area. It was copied verbatim by the AI uploader. The same thing had happened a few months back with a very different image of mine.

The same thing happened to me in the past on DT. Another contributor had copied a large portion of my description exactly - word for word. And yea I suspected that this was someone whose first language was not English. Regardless, I wasn't happy.

And yes, something should be done about this mess with the AI images and potential issues that buyers face. I agree that AI images should be specifically labelled as such and shouldn't appear in general searches.

Just wondering if it's possible to use Davinci Resolve for compiling a time video from a sequence of digital stills? And if that's the case, does Resolve accept Tiff files?

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You can drag and drop  to POND5 upload page multiple files simultaneously. No slower really than FTP.

Ive tried that in the past and found it very problematic. Ive found that stock agency upload pages are usually fine for submitting photo files. But generally unreliable and buggy when submitting video files.

(spoiler - it's a small self-promotion) If you upload via Xpiks Cloud, we retry FTP upload until it succeeds on our side. So you only upload once to our (hopefully) reliable storage, and then we deal with Pond5.

Thanks for the recommendation. Ive been using Stocksubmitter with good success. Ive just about given up using the upload page for submitting videos.

But they have to realize that sloppy reviewing floods their database with junk, and in the end, this doesn't do any good for their customers either.
In the end, they pass the reviewing over to their customers.: bad content doesn't sell and gets buried by the search engine algorithm.
That system works fine for the occasional error that reviewers make, but if you flood your database with junk, nobody will bother anymore to wade through it.

I remember some time ago in the past when reviewers at AS were really strict and fussy and it was hard to get some content accepted. In more recent times, they seem to be getting less strict and it's not often when I get rejections these days.

You can drag and drop  to POND5 upload page multiple files simultaneously. No slower really than FTP.

Ive tried that in the past and found it very problematic. Ive found that stock agency upload pages are usually fine for submitting photo files. But generally unreliable and buggy when submitting video files.

I recall that the minimum for payout on P5 is $25 (if I recall correctly.) My latest sale yesterday put me well above $25. I also recall that payment is automatically released when the minimum amount is obtained. That's the way it worked in the past for me. Ive never had to put in a manual request for payment.

There has been no e-mail regarding the payment release from PayPal. I also signed into my PayPal account and no money has come in. Don't think I have had a delay like this before.

An excellent technical discussion. Thanks for starting it dragonblade!

You're welcome!

I don't think that many buyers want to cut something, people may need a specific format for their project.

It shouldn't take more than a few seconds to crop. And they can alter and fine tune the framing just the way they want if they have the freedom to crop themselves.

Ive compiled a time lapse video from a sequence of digital stills. I'm going to create a 4096 x 2304 video at 24fps with the h264 codec. Just wondering what bitrate would people recommend for stock?

With the 3840 x 2160 videos from my Panasonic G7, the bitrate is usually around 93000 kbps or thereabouts. So I'd imagine the bitrate for a 4096 x 2304 video would be a bit higher.