After all, footage of course isn't ACTUAL moving imagery, just still images played fast enough.

It appears that way due to the 'persistence of vision.' It's actually a fault in our vision that allows us to still 'see' or retain a previous image with our brain and eyes during a rapid succession of similar images. And the illusion of movement is created. Interestingly, flies (insects) do not possess this 'defect.' If a fly was to watch a TV or movie screen, they would see a series of still images and not movement.

Why would it be hard? It seems to me that's just as easy (or hard) as converting from 24fps to 30fps.

Previously, I was under the same impression. After all, 24fps is very close to 25fps. However, this guy claims that there is some visible blur after the conversion.

Pretty much every TV show (like Game of Thrones) you see on TV is filmed at 23.976p these days, and 24p for theatrical movies.

Yes very good points. Ive also heard the HBO shows are shot at 24p too. And for years, the top US TV shows like Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Ally McBeal, Prison Break, Scrubs  etc were shot on film at 24fps. And the same case for theatrical movies over many decades (since the introduction of sound films during the 1920s.) So it's no surprise that for a long time, they've had a good established system in place for converting 24fps to 29.97fps.

And as you say, going from 24fps to 25fps just requires a slight increase in speed.

Yea using 24fps for stock seems like a no brainer.

I've got a similar issue with footage. Do you know if footage can be accepted as illustrative editorial?

Yes it can.

- Does the description need to have the brand name? Or can I just mention 'camera' instead of 'canon 5D' for instance?

It doesn't need to have the brand name. It's optional. And it's only really possible if the footage is editorial. In the case of editorial footage, including the brand name and model in the description would certainly be beneficial.

- I've got visible actors in the footage, and I have model releases for them. Should I upload the model releases or not? (editorial with release is usually rejected).

If the camera is identifiable and you include the brand name / model in the description, it will have to be editorial. And in that case, the model release forms essentially become invalid and can't be used.

i started in stock in the 70s - in those days you would send your slides to the agency.    clients would submit a request and the agency would physically go to their files to select slides that might work and send those to the client.  each agency had their own filing system and most of the knowledge was what the staff remembered.

Gosh, that system is so different to what I expected. Seems kind of risky too with a lot of trust placed in the postage / courier services and the clients themselves who got to inspect the slides and hand them back.

In around the late 90s / early 2000s, I was considering submitting some slides to physical stock agencies. At the time, I wasn't aware of the online agencies like iStock etc. I was reluctant because it meant someone else would have possession of my valued slides.

You need a hundred clips online before you'll sell 1.  You'll need several hundred before you sell 1 on a regular basis.  You need THOUSANDS of clips online before you generate any kind of significant revenue.

Hmmm.....I sold three clips when I had about 35 videos online. Ive almost doubled my video portfolio recently but haven't seen any more sales since. And yea I admit that is still a really tiny port. Oh well - I'll keep on submitting and adding to my port over time.

Edit: Looks like I spoke too soon. I just got another video sale. So that's a total of four video sales with less than 100 videos. Though I admit it was many months between the latest sale and the last. And so far, Ive only sold videos through SS. No sales on Pond 5 yet. Hopefully, that will change one day as I add more.

Oh yea it's one of the few skateboard parks Ive seen with no graffiti.

Yea the GoPro that I was using was quite an old model. I believe that later GoPro models have some degree of control over exposure but I don't know how much.

I do know that many people mount cheap action cameras and GoPro clones to their quadcopters for budget based aerial videography and unfortunately, just about all of those cameras rely on auto exposure.

just accepting an exclusive uploading and distributing agreement
with the benefit to set my prices and some possible perks as an exclusive uploader.

I thought everybody could set their prices on Pond 5, exclusive and non exclusive. Just that exclusives have more flexibility with the prices they can set.

Thanks for the help. When I started up Stocksubmitter again this morning, I noted that the editorial checkbox was automatically selected this time around. Pity it wasn't like that the last time.

Another informative video and a very interesting topic. Yea it's a pity that with many drones, your exposure options are pretty limited though I expected as much. I guess the DJI Inspire would be pretty versatile in that regard. And I'd imagine the Spark would be extremely limited by comparison. Being able to change the aperture would certainly be a big plus.

For my own filming from quadcopters, Ive used a GoPro Hero 3 Silver strapped to a Syma X8C. Of course the exposure on the GoPro was fully automatic so I had no control at all. And when recording landscapes, regrettably, I wasn't able to do so in the late afternoon when the light is softer (even though I wanted to.) This is because late in the day, there would be large areas of shadow over the landscape and this would fool the GoPro's autoexposure into overexposing everything. So I was forced to do my flying / recording earlier in the day. The light was harsher but it was the only way to get correctly exposed footage with such a camera.

Ive got yet another issue with Stocksubmitter...or perhaps with Pond 5...hard to say. So recently, I used Stocksubmitter to submit a small batch of editorial videos to various agencies. With most of the agencies, the videos are currently pending review. With Pond 5, I got that sign in catchup thing that I had to fill in. When that was completed, Stocksubmitter indicated that it was authorising the video batch for Pond 5. However, it's been authorising for an insanely long time (all day in fact.) It's never taken this long before.

I can see these videos on the Pond 5 website. They's stuck in the 'Needs Edits' category and they've been there for hours. My question is - can I close down Stocksubmitter or do I still need to have it open to allow these videos to go into the 'Pending Review' category?

Yea I'm using Windows as well. I'll follow your steps and see if I have any success.