Quote from: jjneff on June 13, 2014, 06:32

I use compressor everyday for iStock! I know some people are having problems but I haven't had any.

Yea, I was told by their video admin that they are having issues with Compressor and to use MPEG Streamclip.  That solved all my upload problems. They are working on an upgraded system that should eliminate the need for folders, etc.  Can't wait for that to happen!!

I don't think that's gonna happen.. iS have shittiest upload system for.. forever.

iS says my files are invalid. These files got through Pond5 and SS just fine.

Here are my compressor settings. Is it because of automatic fps?

edit: found it. there are spaces in my file name

3 years in the future. What are you seeing as a micro stock contributor? What do you think would happen to you and agencies?

I missed the manual! I thought it was as intuitive as other sites. It's iStock so that's expected I guess.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I sold images there twice. Takes too much time to upload. They're integrating IPTC I think.

I just started uploading footage to iS. It's been 24 hours but I can't seem to find where they go. Can you tell me where to find unfinished footages?

Thanks!

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Is this site associated with any big4? I just started vector and I'd like to stay far far away from it.

Quote from: bunhill on May 31, 2014, 08:15

Quote from: SLStudios on May 31, 2014, 06:58

I use lightroom and the dang thing adds keyword categories and related words a lot. Some don't apply and since it does it on export

user error

Nope. The newest version does this on export.

Try cmd+s? that should write it down

Just use one time mail like mailinator to find out. edit Oops that one doesn't work.

Now this is a great poll. I've had lots of thoughts on agency that we contributors could run. This gives idea how many images people on here have. It would be so awesome to put our images together in fair trade agency. It should be run by many contributors, not by one dictator CEO. Symbiostock is great but I'm thinking more of an agency type here.

That is actually a great Idea. Sad thing is most of us do not know how to run a company nor code.

the big problem here is they've created a whole online economic ecosystem that is boundless and borderless and running worldwide disregarding every local laws and police.

basically it's the epithome of the Wild West, no police, no sheriffs, anyone is free to steal and the risk of getting caught and punished is near zero unless the offender is living in a western country and you've got plenty of time and money to waste with expensive IP lawyers.

what we need is a "web police", either that or nothing can ever change, not even inside the EU and the USA as the biggest multinationals like Google or Apple and Facebook are acting in total impunity regarding local taxation, antitrust, and privacy laws.

the other big problem is publishing : everyone and their dog is allowed to publish stolen content in a couple clicks and the companies providing publishing/social platforms are aggressively encouraging any sort of illegal "sharing" of such stolen contents in total disregard of the eventual copyright infringements and local IP laws, platforms like FB and Twitter in particular just don't give two sh-its if you publish stolen images, even the AFP was caught stealing and reselling news images and it took a few years for the photographer to get some justice after a long legal battle where he was even laughed in his face and told to pay back AFP a lot of money !

Here's a good example. This is one of the more popular image of mine: http://musts.me/post/80330225151/sun-conure-by-pumidol-leelerdsakulvong

It's been like shared reflagged over a thousand times and who knows how many untracked. If I sue everybody I'd be filthy rich. Sadly that's not quite possible.

I have an update. I mailed and she is sensible enough to try to fix the problem. Since I'm not eligible for Statutory Damages and actual damage is low so I just directed her to license through shutterstock.

Her reason was "I did sign up with shutterstock and thought that I could use it, but I will try to correct this now"

I think this is a major problem in our industry. We cannot register every work due to the fee. See: http://www.copyright.gov/docs/fees.html

Case closed.

I found the shutter stock page! I've already contacted the prep. I'll what she says.