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Messages - Tyson Anderson
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« on: May 01, 2024, 15:05 »
If you upload to unlimited download sites like StoryBlocks etc, that always happen forever. It'll always be a cat and mouse game. You'll have to constantly searching on web to find thieves making money off of your works. There are also many thieves uploading on YouTube and monetizing them.
I hear ya! There's probably a lot of accounts like this. I just stumbled across it as I was uploading to Motion Array
How did you stumble upon it - was it a "suggested" video?
I was uploading a few clips to Motion Array and looking through their library while I waited... then saw my clip being sold by someone else
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« on: April 30, 2024, 14:18 »
If you upload to unlimited download sites like StoryBlocks etc, that always happen forever. It'll always be a cat and mouse game. You'll have to constantly searching on web to find thieves making money off of your works. There are also many thieves uploading on YouTube and monetizing them.
I hear ya! There's probably a lot of accounts like this. I just stumbled across it as I was uploading to Motion Array
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« on: April 30, 2024, 13:44 »
It's particularly odd that there are videos with model releases, such as the one found here: https://motionarray.com/stock-video/beach-girl-334517/. This suggests that either some content genuinely belongs to the uploader, or, more concerningly, there might be a case of falsified personal information.
That's what I was just thinking... what do these model releases look like??
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« on: April 30, 2024, 13:15 »
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« on: April 30, 2024, 13:08 »
Hi, I just came across 4 of my clips in someone else's portfolio (Bridephoto) on Motion Array. Big portfolio with clips from just about every city in the world. If the one's from Seattle are my clips... I'm assuming the other cities are other peoples clips. Have you guys had any experience with portfolios like this. I've emailed Motion Array, so hopefully they do the right thing and take it down, but what about all those sales? Is there any compensation that goes to the original artists? Selling stock footage is hard enough with so many people doing it... thieves like this need to be shut down immediately
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« on: April 28, 2024, 18:13 »
Just had a bunch returned today for contextual metadata and finally sent an email to support. I think I just got a weird curator. I read over my titles and descriptions and they perfectly describe the clips. I've had 100% acceptance rate for years... hopefully this gets figured out.
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« on: April 22, 2024, 11:08 »
I've been uploading to Pond5 for 9 years. My website and YouTube videos link to Pond5 collections. I had assumed the liked how many links I have sending people to my clips on Pond5 since they've accepted 100% of my submitted clips for years now... but the last few weeks my clips are getting rejected or returned. I'm not doing anything different. Is anyone else experiencing something similar or did I just recently get a strict curator??
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« on: October 25, 2023, 14:22 »
What's up y'all! I recently made a video touching in on some of my experience in creating stock footage since 2015. I've been focusing more on YouTube recently, but this is my first video about stock footage. I plan on covering more topics within this genre... so I'd really appreciate it if you guys can take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks!
https://youtu.be/oe_aIt1qul4
Interesting - what kind of return have you seen on shots where you include yourself versus just generic landscape shots? I've never really included myself in any of the shots.
I don't have any exact stats to compare but I think capturing both the landscape shots and a person interacting with the landscape just adds more sellability to your session
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« on: October 25, 2023, 14:20 »
OMG I've been Hikerman many times too (my new name for that role). Loved the video and just great to have a reminder that there are still a few of us out there filming stuff we find beautiful (sometimes in the mundane) and acting like we accomplished something in nature when really we traveled by car, got a MacDonalds on the way and got a mate to film us pondering life's big questions. Loved it!
Haha, for sure! Adds a little excitement to filming stock
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« on: October 25, 2023, 14:18 »
Tyson Anderson, great video! What equipment do you shoot with?
Thanks! Currently shooting on a Panasonic S5ii, DJI Air 2s, and DJI Action 4. Went from Panasonic GH4 to GH5s before that
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« on: October 25, 2023, 14:17 »
Holy crap, I didn't have notifications turned on so I just thought nobody replied back, lol. Thanks for the feedback
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« on: October 16, 2023, 19:45 »
What's up y'all! I recently made a video touching in on some of my experience in creating stock footage since 2015. I've been focusing more on YouTube recently, but this is my first video about stock footage. I plan on covering more topics within this genre... so I'd really appreciate it if you guys can take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks! https://youtu.be/oe_aIt1qul4
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« on: March 18, 2022, 17:32 »
I honestly can't see you making more money by going exclusive anywhere. It may have worked out for some, but I don't think a 50% increase in royalties can be offset by a 4/5/6 times drop in the number of agencies you submit to. If you want to simplify the process then I'd consider submitting to BlackBox. While it's not something I'd normally recommend for a number of reasons, if your goal is to make things simpler then that could be the way to go. 15% loss in your royalties, but just one upload required, and they do hit Level 5 on Shutterstock in the first week of the year... which is nice.
Thanks. I hear ya, and maybe going exclusive isn't the strategy change I need.
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« on: March 11, 2022, 21:17 »
I've been selling stock footage and photos since 2015, with most income from the footage. Like everyone else, that income has been dropping over the last 3 years. It has come to a point where the effort put into creating high quality footage isn't seeing enough return to continue with my same strategy, uploading to all the sites. I'd love to focus on one site to sell exclusive footage with hopes to simplify my process while possibly earning more because of exclusivity.
Does anyone have info on what the best site for this would be??
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« on: September 29, 2021, 22:57 »
I'm interested. Rocking the Air 2s now...might upgrade if the image quality is quite a bit better
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« on: September 29, 2021, 22:31 »
1 portfolio with more diversity will earn the most
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« on: September 29, 2021, 22:22 »
I don't think it helps sales on the bigger agencies. It does become a question of it being worth the time when the smaller agencies bring in a small amount each month
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« on: February 06, 2020, 19:43 »
Yep
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« on: December 08, 2019, 22:15 »
Well thank you for the kind feedback! We work so hard to produce these individual products for the marketplace, and then rarely see where they end up. It's very gratifying to make creative edits with stock footage.
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« on: December 07, 2019, 03:51 »
Nice one.
If anyone else has made some edits with their footage, post a link in your comment... I'd love to give it a look!
Not sure if you are interesting on a promo reel of work / stock / errors / family stuff mixture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9vWhaBqDc
That was a good reel. Well cut. I like the hyperlapses! Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk
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« on: December 06, 2019, 21:04 »
Crazy, Tyson. Beautifully done. I've spent enough years as a videographer to appreciate a well-cut presentation. Is editing your background? Good choice of pace, music and composition. That was a lot of work. What's the plans for the show? IMO, I'd enter it. Lots of film competitions around the world worth submitting to.....
Thank you! Yes filming and editing snowboard videos in my younger years was the beginning of everything I do now. Unfortunately not a lot of money in it. I submitted to a couple blogs but really just wanted to get it out there. Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk
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« on: December 06, 2019, 17:46 »
Hey y'all, has anyone edited any films using their own stock footage? I recently made a short snowboard movie that I started filming middle of last winter. At that point it was unplanned, but I then resorted to the last few years of stock footage to create a story around an idea I had. I'll post the link below for anyone that would like to check it out. If anyone else has made some edits with their footage, post a link in your comment... I'd love to give it a look! The Great Powder Hound Migration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHAvswMVJmQ&t=4s
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« on: August 27, 2019, 21:08 »
First month, for me, with Adobes Stock earning more than Shutterstock
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« on: July 31, 2019, 19:46 »
Hello is anyone contributing to Artgrid.io that would like to give feedback of their experience?
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