The question is the title.
Thanks !

Did not read... but here
A professional told me one day that they tested all kind of compresseion at the time (ALL) and PhotoJpeg was the best of all.
ProRes will be better in quality, but the data will be long to transfer.

They did not test H 264... BUT my opinion is that it's the worst. It perfect for a final project, but if you are buying a H264 clip then want to color grade it, you will result with soooooooo much artifacts and compression problem.

PhotoJpeg for the win.

I've created my own template for model release using the same text.
iStock is probably the more demanding so the best to copy and transform into yours.
My company logo replace iStock and I've make it faster to fill.

Hello guys !
As contributor and buyer I'm questioning "unlimited download" plateform.
I think Photospin works that way, but they paid contributors a % of the subscription plan which is allright in one sens.
Videoblock just buy clips to contributors and never give anymore money after.
I've just subscribes to "Art-List" for music and I can download music... no limit. - I've asked how the contributors are paid and got no precise answer.

Question:
I'm thinking that imagine if Videoblock have a huge list of videos of all kinds and are just selling it with subscription plan... then contributors won't have anything for the future. That beeing said, I have to said that I've refused to sell clips to them the price they wanted to buy it which was 1/10 the price it would have to be because I was thinking about WHAT IF !??

What if everyone said yes... what is they really have all the necessary videos on the unlimited download subscription.
WHAT IF !??

That would mean that they could just lower their subscription after few years... take the control of stock footage and no giving any more royalties to contributors !!!

I was also thinking about price. Dreamstime have a 250$ price (I think) if someone is buying an image to use for sale. some extended rights, etc. I would not let a video for less than this amount to an agency. Selling a video 5 times on videoblocks give me almost this amount... why would I be selling my clip for not anymore money for 1/10 (not even) that price ?

If they ask, it's because some people said yes... we are in trouble.

Finally, contributors should ALWAYS have a % of ANY sales. if it's subscription, well like shutterstock, they have a download limit. If it't unlimited, well make maths at the end of the month and divide subscription plan per download with contributors like Photospin.
out of that, my clips are under my control. If an agency is getting weird and does stupid moves, I can always remove my clips there and save stock footage world (at least, what I can save).

My two cents, but I would be curious of reading your opinions too !

I agree...
I would upload flat videos, but buyers don't want it that much.
Would be great to link a flat video with a color graded video so the buyer can have an idea of the way you taught or the style and colors, but have all the flexibility to color grade it too.
Maybe a long well known keyword like #nocolorgrdaded or #flatfootage would be an addition to help searches.

I would say... keep clean .csv files of your meta data and when you get 1000 files, you can upload everything at once on other agencies. Then do it again when getting to 2000 files + uploading the 2000 files on new agencies that worth it. Etc.

no answer yet !
*... I guess it's impossible !

Quote from: Dave on February 29, 2016, 21:09
I looked at Pond5, very early on for my still images and decided that they were a bunch of hoods then and have watched with interest, how they have performed as an entity, abusing there contributors all the way.

It's time us image creators started our own coop and got rid of the rip off artists.

Provide a good honest service to users as well as contributors. Like Stocksy but more reasonable prices.

A COOP would be great.
small % on sale price and a small fee on uploading too just to paid for servers and limit useless upload.
something like... contributor reviewer... you review so you can upload. There is many way to make it happen.
We a bunch of investors for it and a big head to manage it. - hmmmm...

I'm at 97$... hope I can get to 100$ before the closing !
freaking site stealing our money all the time when closing !

really bad thing....

my solution for now is to use only the words in the description or title of my file. Then ... I'm working on titles that use the best keywords and it's easy to copy / paste the tile to get only 5 or 6 great keywords.

 

Quote from: thepokergod on December 17, 2015, 01:28
Yes I wouldn't be surprised at all if VB management start approaching sellers in their marketplace and make an offer for their content.

How much would it be okay to said yes for an infinite download file addition in the library ?
hmmmm

Hello !
Does anyone has been contacted to sell their footage to the unlimited download library ?
I was curious to know how much they give to people per clip and how it works.

I had a bug too, the day after it was all right

Getty image was giving away images to bloggers at the condition of putting a link of the source. Because it's just so easy to make an image search on Google to find the image you need without the Alamy or other agency logo on it.
Getty way giving this authorization for small images I think.
Since the money is not really there.....

Selling over 50 000 images per year (on all agencies), I guess I got about 10 000 other ass hole that did'nt paid for it. I prefer to not waste my time with it and keep the focus into creating new original concepts. I wish you good luck with Corbis and Foodstock - two agencies I don't have my images in.

Hello pros !
It's easy to create a Catalog on Shutterstock ... with photos. - - - > Same with video possible ? 
Is there any way to share to clients a Video Album / Catalog... call it like you wish... a list of video.

When I send one video, there is all similar videos in the bottom + competition and other useless stuff that something I just wish my client understand that this is not my work. I wish I could track the revenue of a collection like we can do with photos, but I guess that's a dream I'm doing since 2 years now. 

Any suggestions ?

target: Sometimes Shutterstock send e-mail with video collection. If they can do it, we can probably too ?! 

Thanks !!

Could it help me to condense 50 into 10 or 15 ?

Quote from: Zeus on December 17, 2015, 02:04
Probably the easiest way is to deal with them in Excel. Search for a particular keyword and bulk delete it. I often use "people, person, man, men" etc. Get rid of men and people. In a large group you may be  deleting several hundred words at a go.

I get the idea, but actually, I use "people" only when there is many people and I use "person" when there is only one person. I don't use both at the same time so I might delete important stuff.

I'm thinking about converting my description into a list of keywords, but some important stuff will be missing.
I don't know... have no easy solution.

Hello troupers !
Many times I need to give fewer amount of important keywords (like on Alamy). Is there any quick way of doing it. DeepMeta can remove a few duplicated, Shutterstock suggestion tool do it also, but only 5 or 6 in a batch of 50.

Is there any brighter program or tool that can do "human'ish" job to help ?

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Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on December 16, 2015, 11:28
Is the other content wholly owned or is like their other sites where they paid the copyright holders some paltry sum (much less than an EL) to be able to sell the content in perpetuity without any further compensation?

I have just had a thought. Who thinks they will soon be approaching the best selling people on the PPD side with an offer to licence their portfolios in the same way as graphicstock (their other site)?

I think they are just using the set up to be able to chose only the people that sell to license to the sub site, so the quality of their subs offering will increase and PPD decrease until the opposite of the current situation is the case, best stuff on the subs side with no further compensation to contributors.

I thought I heard they paid artists to shoot a lot of that content for them before they started up.....can't say for sure but I thought I read that somewhere.

true

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Quote from: Striving on December 09, 2015, 22:37
His portfolio size is getting HIGHER and HIGHER 

LOL!!! Good one.

This guy must be a dealer !!

funny, i was just thinking the same thing. or more like, hey maybe it's ss new way of advertisement.
you become a contributor with no reviewer curation, and you put the stuff you're dealing.
this way, everyone knows who to contact when they need stuff!!!

hahahahah !

Let's buy some coke, mess and crack and make it a company expense too !!!

Quote from: stockastic on December 10, 2015, 16:50
For me it all ended in 2014, I had a small fraction of the sales of previous years.  I'd decided to give up in 2015 and close it; but I had a sale early in January so I left it alone.  Then a bunch in August, and a bunch in October, so I've made a few hundred bucks this year and I'll leave the account open.   It isn't like the other sites where you get about the same number of sales every month, and we'll never know why.  Maybe some sort of contributor rotation.

I've started in early 2015 because Alamy approached me.
I did'nt want to upload there because the keywording was taking me lot of time (ordering it and picking the right 8 best keywords). They helped me.
My guess is that they did it to many people and that reduced the sales of others already there.

I just just sold a 199$ on Videoblock. Out of nowhere.
I have 1000+ clip there and it's the fist time I sell a 4K clip.
that give me 179$
so that will pimp up my stats !

Quote from: marthamarks on December 09, 2015, 22:40

Quote from: Striving on December 09, 2015, 22:37
His portfolio size is getting HIGHER and HIGHER 

LOL!!! Good one.

This guy must be a dealer !!