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« on: October 03, 2023, 04:32 »
What about Pond5, does it display correctly?
Yes it does.
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« on: October 03, 2023, 04:27 »
Hi. Does anyone selling vertical videos had any notable sales of these?
Hi. In my port vertical beauty videos sells better than horisontal. Nature and travel - horisontal are better. That is, it all depends on the theme, as Jasmin already said.
But you should keep in mind that vertical ones are almost always sold with cheap licenses. Their income is very small.
BTW It is very surprising that neither Shutterstock nor StoryBlocks will accept vertical video is vertical format at this time...
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« on: September 25, 2023, 03:48 »
Hi. Does anyone selling vertical videos had any notable sales of these?
The basic question is - does a native vertical video appeals more to the social media video creator than a horizontal video that's cropped during editing?
I have a pretty large (8,000+) portfolio that can be cropped and scaled (DaVinci Resolve new tools are just fantastic)
But it will take considerable amount of work.
Wondering if it's worth the effort...
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« on: February 14, 2023, 12:02 »
I have quite a few videos I shot in military airshows during 2017-2020.
Almost no rejections along the way.
In the past 2 years I had many of my clips rejected in both Shutterstock and Adobe due to intellectual property issues,
and sometimes I had agencies require property release from the airshow itself.
Does anyone here has some experience with this subject?
Is obtaining a release from a large airshow (like the Paris one for example) even an option?
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« on: January 30, 2023, 02:57 »
Well - went in to look at MediacastPro
and got this message -
"At present, the platform accepts registrations only from the
European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
Leave your email to be notified when we open registrations for your country"
What .??
Why would they block all other countries?
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« on: January 30, 2023, 02:51 »
This is actually a good question.
Usually 17:9 formats (DCI 4K and 2k) are used more for cinema projects where the screen aspect is 17:9 and not 16:9 like on TV and YouTube.
Although its funny, since they have the DCI 4K in bold, but not the DCI 2K...
Anyway - I shoot both formats, and can't really tell you what sells better.
I sell both formats on all sites.
If the clip is of good value - people will download it and doo the small resize for their needs I suppose.
Shots are rarely framed so tight they can't be fitted to another frame aspect.
BTW - the same question is asked many times regarding 24/25/29.97/30 FPS.
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« on: January 13, 2023, 11:24 »
I'm selling video pretty much in all major agencies.
And all across the board almost no sales this January so far.
Anyone else encountered this??
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« on: July 01, 2022, 06:51 »
I am contributing them from last one year, now more than 2k video files in my port, till now I earned 351 credits ( yes, credits not dollars, as they are doing some kind of cheating on this).
And 4 sales this year for a total of 42 credits.
Note/Warning : They don't pay fairly while converting credits to JPY.
Yeah, I heard about the conversion thing So lame.
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« on: June 30, 2022, 07:19 »
Started uploading my video collection there to give it a try...
As of now have 1,000 clips there.
Many of them get many views (into the hundreds) - but zero sales so far.
Any video contributor making any money there??
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« on: February 08, 2022, 08:05 »
Well, my 10 cents from the video side of things...
As someone who worked with editors for many years now, there is a lot of sense behind the "series" concept.
Many times the right movement, the tiny expression on the model face, the right angle - that will make one clip good and the other - not as good.
I try to give at least 2-3 good variations on every clip, which brings my batches to an average of 20-40 clips.
This makes them fall right into the "similar content" trap.
My workaround - 2-3 submissions at least a few days apart (which probably pass through different reviewers)
This usually ends up with 80-90% of the clips accepted.
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« on: June 29, 2019, 12:00 »
I have a batch I shot a few years back of a pharmaceutical laboratory. Back then I gave the clips (all shot in log profile) a certain color grade, which today I find kinda bad. Nevertheless these clips are selling pretty well since then. With the tools I have these days (ie DaVinci Resolve...) I can give these clips a much better grade. Does it make sense to upload a new, revised version?? (the visual look will be completely different) Would it impact the sales of my old batch? Is it forbidden by the agancies?
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« on: May 04, 2019, 14:01 »
Just trying to understand my situation -
Went through my statistics for the past 365 days -
I have an average of around 50 item views per day, and around 0.5 sales per day.
What's other people's numbers here?
I'm pricing my clips pretty high so wondering whether these prices might scare off buyers...
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« on: March 29, 2019, 10:28 »
This old thread popped up, and I realized it might be relevant for some. Same old comments even 9 years ago... Race to the bottom, too much competition, evil agencies...
So, anyone still doing stock from the beginning of this thread (2010)?
As I was reading, I thought it was from this year. When I realized it was from 2010 I thought maybe that was all paranoia
Same here  As making more income requires more and more effort - the question whether all this will justify itself in 5-10 years always comes to mind. I tend to divide the answer into 2 - 1- the demand for stock video will be on the rise in the foreseeable future in all aspects of the media - web, TV commercials, mobile apps and so forth... 2- As the result of the drop in video gear prices, along with the great video quality these cameras give, the amount of video contributors will rise greatly - and so will the amount of content they produce. This will make our lives under the search engines tougher then ever. What will make some clips stand out from the crowd then? I think it's a combination of: first and foremost - great and useful concept - a result of market research, and thought before shooting. Then - fine technical aspects - lighting, camera movement, color grading etc. What I would really like to know - if great content that sells well today - will still be up in search results in a few years. From my experience - even great clips slowly sink down the search results, as a well established stock agencies strategy. Good luck to us all
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« on: January 26, 2019, 10:22 »
This contributor RawFilms doesn't exist, so search results display footage from everybody instead - no conspiracy here.
So what's the catch then?
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« on: December 20, 2018, 00:44 »
Signature files are provided by iStock exclusive artists.
No more, no less.
OK - Thanks!
Seems kinda stupid to filter results according to the contributor agreement and not the content quality - but it is what it is...
It means that should a customer wish, they can look first at files that aren't available elsewhere.
Which might make sense if their website stated it that way. But instead it's shown as 'Lowest price' vs 'Best quality'. 
Exactly my point
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« on: December 19, 2018, 12:03 »
I can't sign in with my google account... Is that a known limitation as of now?
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« on: December 19, 2018, 12:02 »
Signature files are provided by iStock exclusive artists.
No more, no less.
OK - Thanks! Seems kinda stupid to filter results according to the contributor agreement and not the content quality - but it is what it is...
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« on: December 19, 2018, 09:41 »
Still can't figure it out.
All of my portfolio is presented in the "essential" collection.
none of my clips are in the "signeture" collection.
I'm trying to be as objective as I can here... some of the clips in the Signeture collection are indeed very good, at least as good as mine.
but some are, well, much much worse.
So - What's the deal here?
Am I missing something?
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« on: December 14, 2018, 15:07 »
there is an explanation in his own website...
apparently they only charge a 'modest' fee for 'preparing', 'resizing', 'transferring' and 'improving' the PD clips... and it's all legal in the name of 'preservation'... but if by a 'slight chance' there is a copyright infringement... the user that downloads and uses the clip is liable and not the distributor. How convenient...
This whole thing makes me feel like such an idiot running all these years with cameras trying to shoot thousends of high quality clips. He is defenitly smarter than us. "Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free"
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« on: December 13, 2018, 16:09 »
"In 2000, Ray founded DVArchive.com, an internet based stock footage library with the intent of making the imagery from his extensive travels available to a wide variety of film and media producers.
Rays imagery of the world is now carried by most of the worlds major stock footage libraries including Shutterstock, Pond5 and Adobe Stock."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Ray
This blows my mind. This guy has 1500 NASA clips on his website that he sells for $99 each. This might be the best stock footage business model I heard of - Make huge amounts of money from footage that's not even yours. If I was one of the American contributors here I would stop everything and RUN to find these Beta SP tapes in the NASA archives and give this man some competition...
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« on: December 13, 2018, 15:31 »
NASA gives public domain rights to its media, it's only due to give credits for what I know
So...? What your'e saying is if I give them credit I can start making money from all their archive footage?? Doesn't sound right to me.
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« on: December 13, 2018, 14:52 »
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« on: November 28, 2018, 12:40 »
Well - this puts an end to this debate (or maybe just starting it...)
I cannot find this situation not insulting (at best) and illegal (at worst)
It's one this to create a "select" collection - many agancies did so before (P5,Dissolve)
But to throw away all other clips from the first page, a place we worked so hard for so long to get to - this is just plain disgusting.
And these clips are priced at $399 a piece.
And above all - why couldn't they just tell us the plain truth - We are promoting our "select" collection clips on the account of all others. Sorry.
Just outrageous.
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« on: November 26, 2018, 14:49 »
Just a thought... If investing the right amount of money in purchasing your own clips. you pay 70% to SS obviously. But what if investing, let's say, $1,000 brings you up in the search engine to a place that earns you $2,000? What if this "crossroads" bought their own new clips a few times (maybe using a discounted clip pack), boosted their positions and now making more money? Does this make any sense? BTW - just thought about this - in the previous model of VideoBlocks - you could boost your own video rankings by buying them again and again, and only pay tiny amounts to the agency in the process...
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