You've got me worried about the remaining 1%   

Thank you Jo-Ann and Mat - for the super quick response.

All the best for Christmas.
Pablito.

It's an interesting thought...........but Don't bother.
 
Any editor who thinks the clip needs more colour can do it in an instant. You are much better shooting more clips than tinkering with ones you've already submitted - remember content (and quantity) is king, not a bit of saturation here and there.

I have all my videos populated with titles, descriptions and all keywords before uploading.

When I upload to Adobe I leave everything as is - although sometimes, I'll spend time re-jigging the keywords to have the important ones at the front as Adobe suggests. Never keen on spending time doing that.

I don't mess around copy and pasting descriptions to titles - I've done all my metadata already.

Quote from: Pablito on September 03, 2018, 07:22

Jo Ann, Could I ask you if you've now received your code?  I am in the same position - have now had uploads approved but so far no code has been sent.

Thanks,
Pablito

Not yet, but Mat had said that he wasn't sure when the next batch of codes would go out - I'll post here when I receive mine

Thanks Jo Ann, that would be useful.

Side question for someone who never had Adobe cloud anything. I bought last stand alone versions when I could.

Say I get a photo software code for one year and it expires, what happens to the software? Do I have that last version and no updates, or is it crippled and no longer works?

While not wanting to reduce the joys of CC on this particular thread - I do think you should know the ramification of using CC for just one year if you use stand alone products.
After the year is up you can start paying the subscription and have all the advantages of CC. However if you revert to stand alone products, you will find that all CC products will disappear and non of your Prem Pro projects will open in CS6. Probably the LR catalogues won't open. In fact just about anything created in CC won't be backward compatible (except generic stuff like tiffs & jpgs & mov files) and the software won't support Windows 7, 8 nor even some versions of 10. So, as far as I know - in practical terms - starting CC is a one-way street - there's no going back...........ever

I'd relax your outrage.  The page says:
"There are two different software plans you can be awarded:

    To receive a 1- year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan, be among the first 20,000 Adobe Stock Contributors to upload at least 300 accepted assets or earn $500 (USD) in royalties for the period Jan 1-Dec 31, 2018. To qualify, you must maintain at least a 50% acceptance rate of your submitted content. 
    To receive a 1- year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan, be among the first 2,000 Adobe Stock Contributors to upload at least 300 accepted video assets or earn $500 (USD) in royalties from videos for the period Jan 1- Dec 31, 2018.  To qualify, you must maintain at least a 50% acceptance rate of your submitted content.  "

Note the "or".

Sean - while I agree about the over the top outrage of that poster; you obviously haven't been paying attention to previous posts. Have a read and you might see that some people are not experiencing the "or" bit and are getting a little of the "or + and" bit from Adobe.

However I'm confident Mat will chime in shortly to explain the situation of why for some "or" hasn't been sufficient.

Quote from: Tyson Anderson on January 16, 2018, 19:53

I have to agree with others... 12k clips should be wearing much more.  Could be a lot of factors.  Adding a link to your portfolio could bring some good constructive criticism to help you out with this.  I've uploaded about 1,200 clips in less than 3 years at Pond5 and earning over a thousand dollars per month.  I'm sure there's people with an even better sales to portfolio size ratio.

My Pond5 Port:
https://www.pond5.com/artist/openrangestock#1/2063

Really good footage. Excellent drone shots and I like the color grading too.
I haven't flown my bird for several months now, as they introduced a very unclear "rule" here in the UK: at least 150m from buildings in "built up areas" (whatever that means).
Also every single country here in old Europe has different rules, so it is getting very hard.
I have gone back to shooting mainly timelapses

There's nothing unclear about drone rules in the UK.
For any commercial flying - commercial means any form of present or future payment or compensation of any kind - you need to be qualified and with insurance.

Training and Flight test �1000-�2000
Commercial Drone Insurance may cost �400
Ops manual
CAA permission (costs �173)

To get CAA permission you supply:

Operations Manual including a photo of UAV
Copies of remote pilots qualifications
Evidence of at least 2 hours flight time in the preceding 3 months
Copy of commercial flight insurance
Payment notification form FCs1500

I get the feeling many guys with drones shooting for stock are actually on a wing and a prayer rather than CAA permisson.

First Person View or FPV, is the practice of flying an aircraft using the view from a camera mounted on the aircraft. Although it�s great fun, flying a drone commercially using FPV is illegal. The pilot has to be able to see the aircraft at all times. This is called Visual Line of Sight or VLOS.
All UAV operators have restrictions on how close they can fly to people. You must maintain an exclusion of 30m at point of take-off and 50m at all other times, away from any person, vehicle or building that�s outside of your control. Obviously, if you are in control of the building or the people you can fly much closer.
The maximum distance that any UAV or drone can fly away from the pilot is 500m. But most importantly, the aircraft must stay in sight and the pilot must be able to control the aircraft still without any visual aids.
The maximum height that any UAV can fly at without special permission from the CAA is 400 feet (122 m) above ground level. This is normally high enough for most applications. But most importantly, the aircraft must stay in sight.
To operate a UAV or �drone� commercially, you must have permission from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) � the CAA control all airspace use in the UK. This comes in the form of a Permission for Commercial Operation or PfCO. To get a PfCO you must prove that you are competent to safely operate your aircraft.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) regulates all commercial UAV operations in the UK. It�s actually a criminal offence for anyone to operate a UAV or even a toy drone for any commercial purposes without having a Permission for Commercial Operation (PfCO) from the CAA. Even taking pictures of your neighbour�s house for a pint is considered commercial work.
Etc Etc......

Hi Sauletas,

I have had a few thousand in the membership scheme since the beginning.
Up to now it's been brilliant.
I agree with P5 - as far as I can tell it hasn't impacted on my regular P5 sales; membership clips sell just as well outside the membership program.
Everything is changing on 1 March so it's now new to everyone as far as how membership earnings will go.
They've just chosen a few more 1000 of mine - I'm happy about that and reckon it's better to be in than out.

Hope that helps your decision.
 

I was a bit shocked - wondered if they were "matching" VB prices. Hope not

HD �39

4K �119

Seems a lot less in �

We would like to share an update regarding small and medium sized videos on Fotolia. We increased the price for small videos from 12 credits to 30 credits, and for medium videos from 30 to 45 credits, which will result in higher royalties in parallel. Downloads for HD 720 and HD 1080 remain at 60 and 75 credits. The royalties you receive for Fotolia credit sales are determined by your rank; please see this for more info: https://us.fotolia.com/Info/Contributors/Royalties/Videos

Videos on Adobe Stock are offered at HD 1080 and 4k only and you will always earn 35% royalties for every purchase on Adobe Stock.

-Mat

Hi Mat,

Regarding Videos. Can you post a link as to how many video sales one needs to achieve each rank?

I seem to remember seeing 200 sales to move up from the bottom rank for both stills and video - is that correct?
I had a video sale last week which was �52,50 (approx $70) to me (thanks - great sale) now does that count as just one sale? To achieve �52.50 with stills would need 280 sales at 25c.

Cheers

It is certainly the case that Alamy no longer accept new contributors for video.

They also now don't accept new clips from existing video contributors. As soon as that was announced they made my best day's sales of video clips. Real pity they've more or less given up.