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« on: February 07, 2020, 11:17 »
Apparently that has not been the case. And somehow I've never been able to remove noise in premiere
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« on: February 06, 2020, 10:46 »
Had shots from ISO 200 to almost 4000 i think
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« on: February 05, 2020, 14:37 »
Well that's a catch all reason, doesn't mean all of them apply... and if you're shooting on an A7 III, outputting at 100Mbps, and you're not using extreme colour correction/grading... then the most likely culprit will be noise. Are these low light shots or shots with a lot of dark colours? You might need to add some kind of noise reduction... Premiere and After Effects have them but they're not all that good (make the image looks super soft), but you can get third party plugins that work well. Neat Video and Denoiser III.
Some are night shots, others are daylight shots. How do you denoise in premiere with no plugins? Maybe that will cure this problem Sent from my HD1901 using Tapatalk
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« on: February 05, 2020, 12:12 »
Are they not saying why they're rejecting it? Is it definitely due to your color correction/grading? Could be something else.
This is the error message I usually end up getting Noise / Artifacts / Pixelation / Posterization: Clip contains noise, compression artifacts, pixelation and/or posterization that is prominent and/or affects the main subject/focus of the clip.
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« on: February 02, 2020, 05:14 »
Hey everyone
Have just started doing some color correction and grading of the video from my sony a7III, but shutterstock rejects most of it.
Settings : 4k XVAC 100 MBps
Editing : Premiere - mostly saturation, exposure, contrast and adding some color on the highlights and shadows. Exporting in H264 at 100mbps with max bitrate 200mbps
Where am i going wrong? I've heard the video from the a7iii is very detailed and editable
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« on: December 03, 2019, 21:46 »
Thank you, it helps a lot. It shows how dishonest Alamy is by hiding the most important information (the amount I earn from a sale) under several clicks and weird and complicated information table. On the front page you are just prompted with gross sale that makes you think that you made a huge sale, since thats what we are used to see on other agencies - the amount we earn.
Bookmark this page: https://www.alamy.com/alamycontributorreports/Reports.aspx?Rep=1
There, isn't that easy? 
The table might look strange because they are totally open about how much the image sold for, percentages, how much was taken out and what you get. Also what has cleared and what has not. In other words, more useful and truthful information than the rest.
This is really helpful
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« on: November 19, 2019, 23:56 »
Yup, hope this pushes up the business coming to good agencies like Alamy
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« on: November 19, 2019, 18:37 »
Got a mail today motioning from Alamy that they continue to support RM despite Getty deciding to pull the plug. The mail is below, nice to know Alamy wants contributors to also earn
Is Rights-Managed licensing dead?
Not according to Alamy.
There's been lots of discussion in recent weeks about the future of Rights-Managed licensing. Alamy have no plans to discontinue offering RM images and will continue to offer photographers a choice to license their photos as Rights-Managed or Royalty-Free.
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« on: November 09, 2019, 21:53 »
Love the video!
However my personal favorite is blackboxglobal.
No one of professional stock contributors will throw away 15% of their commission to give it to black box. If you use tools like stocksubmitter its same easy, but you have your 15% with you. Bb only for nobrainers, because its easier.
This has been in my mind as well. Why pay that extra 15% for something that stock submitter does. Especially since it allows you to have control of your images. Don't understand the bit about SS giving higher royalty through blackbox
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« on: November 08, 2019, 22:44 »
I know asking for what you shoot is a touchy subject. But for the ones that have been doing it full time what things have worked for you apart from finding an absolutely amazing niche to specialize in? What have you automated, are you employing people, what ways of ideation?
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« on: November 06, 2019, 04:40 »
Just got this in the mail some time back. Seems the champion of RM has fallen
Continued success of royalty‑free licensing and our plans for a phased retirement of rights‑managed creative images
Over the years, customers needs have changed. Complicated licensing models create friction and customers demand simplicitythey want the most simple and most flexible access to relevant, authentic imagery.
Royalty‑free (RF) imagery is now the preferred and dominant licensing model for our customers due to the simplicity, value and quality available. Licensing complexity has only led customers to other content, and in many cases, another provider as the broader industry is now essentially an RF‑only model.
We conducted extensive customer research and testing on RF versus rights‑managed (RM), including Market Freeze. We have confidently concluded that the RM creative image licensing model no longer meets our customers needs, especially given the flexibility demanded by digital marketing and the increasing reuse of imagery, and it actually reduces our overall competitiveness.
As a result, we plan to simplify our product offering through a phased retirement of RM creative images, moving to an RF‑only creative images offering during 2020. This will benefit customers and provide an opportunity to grow overall licensing volume and revenue for both Getty Images and our contributors:
When a customer uses GettyImages.com, they will have only one simple licensing model (RF) which contains all of our creative images.
Images appearing in customers' search results will be the most relevantno longer will the results include RM, regardless of relevanceopening up more search exposure for creative RF.
Our customers will be able to focus on the one thing that matters to themfinding authentic quality content that connects with their target audience.
We see this fundamental change in our business model as key to furthering our growth and increasing the accessibility of amazing content to new customers and new markets.
Your RM creative images By the end of January 2020, your RM images will be removed from single image licensing (sometimes called la carte) on GettyImages.com. Customers will still be able to complete renewals and purchase RM creative images for at least the following 30 days after that. Premium Access customers will still be able to access RM images until November 6, 2020.
When RM is fully retired, you will be able to distribute your RM images as you wish, with the exception that you must not license any RM images (or similars) in a way that conflicts with any active, unexpired exclusive licenses. We will contact you again in November 2020 to confirm that RM has been fully retired and provide a report detailing such licenses.
We will stop accepting new RM creative images on November 6, 2019 at 11:59pm CET/ 10:59pm GMT/ 5:59pm EST/ 2:59pm PST. You can find out more in our FAQs, below.
RF opportunity We encourage you to grow your RF portfolio with new fresh imagery to meet current customer demands, which you can do under your existing agreement.
For guidance and inspiration, you can review our creative briefs, which identify the most needed subjects for our customers and enable you to respond to gaps in our RF collection. Our briefs reflect the research of our industry‑leading Creative Insight team, including market trends and customer licensing data, and are available on the Contributor Community Website and our Contributor app.
If you have any questions or need to contact us, please refer to the frequently asked questions below and regularly updated in our online contributor forums on the Contributor Community website.
Best wishes,
Paul
Paul Banwell Senior Director, Contributor Relations
Getty Images | iStock
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« on: October 08, 2019, 11:33 »
And it seems the innovation pace is slowing down for sony. The a7III now becomes a very decent choice since the a7IV might not end up being all that groundbreaking
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« on: October 08, 2019, 11:32 »
Hi, were you in the process of updating it? The site seemed down today
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« on: September 29, 2019, 03:48 »
The rolling shutter and low light are the two main things that I'm looking at. It seems the 6xxx series just seem to get rejection after rejection due to distortion and noise. Agreed though on the issue with the weight of camera + lens and the fact that the a6600 might have the best video AF at the moment
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« on: September 21, 2019, 22:57 »
This is a great offer.
How do i track my images uploaded, videos uploaded and acceptance rate on the site?
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« on: September 19, 2019, 11:24 »
Thats still a long way off, i can maybe earn enough to get a Sony a7III this year. Guess the game is too ramp up the numbers and get some crazy good content this year
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« on: September 18, 2019, 11:21 »
I absolutely love this thread, for the hope that someday it might get me enough for rent and a few square meals
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« on: September 15, 2019, 05:11 »
Hey everyone, have been shooting for some years with the Sony NEX6 for stock footage and images. Guess its outdated now as i see more 4K clips with coming out and i get more rolling shutter rejections.
My choices are the new sony a6600 or the trusty sony A7III. The a6600 has the eye focus in video, no video duration limit and some cool new video features. While the a7III for a slightly higher price is a full frame with crazy good low light capabilities.
What would you advise, which to get.
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« on: July 09, 2019, 10:33 »
One more thing that needs to be shot down. I thought storyblocks ssid they had found the winning formula when they started charging 30% royalty    .
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« on: June 14, 2019, 22:22 »
Cap or no cap what ll hurt us a lot is the $7 video sales that keep coming in. What are these? Is it like a subscription model for videos, will all sales eventually move to this price point?
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« on: June 12, 2019, 21:39 »
Looks like I'll have to give this a shot
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« on: June 11, 2019, 13:39 »
One of the main reasons i liked the official shutterstock app was that it highlighted files that got sold for the first, 5th or 10th time. It seems SS has turned off that feature as i don't get that info on my home page anymore. Or am i doing something wrong? How do i get it back?
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« on: June 10, 2019, 21:33 »
Got a 3$ video sale, man this hurts, especially with Pond5's new royalty rates it seems like there is no decent place to sell video
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« on: May 01, 2019, 23:31 »
I've liked how well warp stabilizer in adobe works with some kinds of videos. It screws up scenes with water and too many moving elements. The only pain is the process to apply it to too many videos
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