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Newbie Discussion / Re: Outsourcing post-processing - who does it?
« on: October 07, 2010, 10:14 »
Sorry for the late response
The way our customers work is they typically want one of the following 2 options
1) an excel spreadsheet with separate columns for all the metadata requirements for the specified stock agency(s) this will require you sending us low res JPEG files
2) The KW embedded into the IPTC fields this will require you sending us high res TIFF or JPEG files
The advantage of 2) is that you have to do little work other than submit the images. The disadvantage is that you have now hard coded the KW standard for one adjency into your distribution images. And as we all know most of the stock agencies have very different keywording standards.
The advantage of 1) is that
your images remain agency independent
all your KW requirements are managed through the spreadsheet. This is great for those that are submitting images to multiple agencies
it is easier and faster for you to review the KW of your images in a spreadsheet
because we are working with low res images, the images are faster for you to transmit, faster for us to load for processing, and there is no return network traffic because we are sending back the excel spreadsheet instead of all the high res images.
Obviously we can do both ways and I have updated the form to accept high res JPEGs but most of our customers do prefer sending low res JPEGs and getting an excel sheet in return.
I would however also say that the reason we charge for FTP is we typically get 50MB files. 5MB files are much more manageable and I have set it up that a file under 15MB is considered low res and so can be uploaded/FTPed and downloaded/FTPed for free.
Hope this helps and thanks for the feedback, look forward to processing a job for you and please contact me directly if you have any further questions [email protected]
Jazz
The way our customers work is they typically want one of the following 2 options
1) an excel spreadsheet with separate columns for all the metadata requirements for the specified stock agency(s) this will require you sending us low res JPEG files
2) The KW embedded into the IPTC fields this will require you sending us high res TIFF or JPEG files
The advantage of 2) is that you have to do little work other than submit the images. The disadvantage is that you have now hard coded the KW standard for one adjency into your distribution images. And as we all know most of the stock agencies have very different keywording standards.
The advantage of 1) is that
your images remain agency independent
all your KW requirements are managed through the spreadsheet. This is great for those that are submitting images to multiple agencies
it is easier and faster for you to review the KW of your images in a spreadsheet
because we are working with low res images, the images are faster for you to transmit, faster for us to load for processing, and there is no return network traffic because we are sending back the excel spreadsheet instead of all the high res images.
Obviously we can do both ways and I have updated the form to accept high res JPEGs but most of our customers do prefer sending low res JPEGs and getting an excel sheet in return.
I would however also say that the reason we charge for FTP is we typically get 50MB files. 5MB files are much more manageable and I have set it up that a file under 15MB is considered low res and so can be uploaded/FTPed and downloaded/FTPed for free.
Hope this helps and thanks for the feedback, look forward to processing a job for you and please contact me directly if you have any further questions [email protected]
Jazz
