It is possible to find out what resolution our videos are being sold at (from the individual sales)? Unfortunately, these days, I usually get around $4 or $5 for my 4k videos. So I'm curious if they're being sold at HD or 4k resolution. This may influence my decision as to whether I should continue to upload 4k videos to AS.

I know it's still possible to get good earnings from 4k video sales on AS these days but those instances are super rare and it's never happened to me.

It's also a pain and a massive hassle for me to upload 4k videos to AS. By contrast, I can usually upload 4k videos to P5 without too much trouble.

Going forward, it's a possibility that I may be uploading HD videos to AS instead of 4k.

I wonder if Alamy are accepting video again. I'm currently about to sign in on their site and I see some video footage being displayed (something Ive never seen before on their start up page.) And there is some text that says: "License your photos, illustrations and videos to the world's leading brands."

Quite an alarming thing occurred on P5 recently. I submitted a news related video which features large numbers of people and a marine vessel as editorial. I then asked P5 Support to transfer the video from my non exclusive account to my exclusive account. When I checked, I saw that the transfer was complete but I also noticed that the video had also been changed from editorial to commercial for some strange reason. This is really puzzling considering the number of recognisable people in the footage. And the design of the vessel may be protected by copyright as well. There are also flags on the vessel as well featuring graphic elements (which could present potential issues.)

I contacted P5 and asked them to change the video back to editorial.

Has this occurred to anyone else - P5 changing an editorial video to commercial without your consent or knowledge?

I'm wondering if there are any stock agencies that accept physical media posted to them in this day and age? Like submitting your content on a CD or Data DVD. I admit that I'm almost at my wit's end when it comes to submitting video. Submitting video has been a big struggle for a vey long time. Photo files are fine - not many problems there.

Firstly, the web uploaders on the agencies websites (where you drag and drop files) are fine for photo files but extremely problematic for video files. I could try many times with different clips and I would get a failed upload with every single attempt. The only exception that would work would be a video with a very small file size (like a short duration clip.) That did work for me once.

Of course another option is FTP. A number of years ago, I used to use Filezilla but found it very hit and miss. Some video files would go through and some wouldn't. More recently, I tried Filezilla again and I had no success with it this time around.

Some time in the past, I discovered StockSubmitter and that was a life saver for submitting video files. Finally, I found something that was reliable and efficient the majority of the time. I could submit multiple video files at once with hardly any issues at all.

Though these days, I'm having mixed success with StockSubmitter. It still works well some of the time. But there are some occasions where I could try submitting a small number of video files (say 3 - 5) with multiple attempts over a few days and they won't go through. And currently, P5 is not an option with StockSubmitter because of some change that was made to the P5 website. StockSubmitter are working on an update to address that issue but Ive no idea how long that will take.

Ive heard of another popular FTP client called Cyber Duck. I will give that one a go and see how it performs.

If all the online options fail, I may have to consider posting a physical disc containing my video files. That may sound drastic but desperate times call for desperate measures.

I don't believe what's happened to my port on DT. I only submit photos and DT has now labelled me as an AI contributor. I do not have any AI content in my port. Ive viewed a whole bunch of my photos in edit mode and the categories have been changed (without my consent or knowledge.) With all the photos Ive viewed, the top category has been changed to Illustrations & Clipart. And the sub-category reads "Generative AI." And that is complete nonsense. Above the categories, it says "AI Contributor" and "Generative AI category is selected by default."

Has this happened to anyone else on DT?

I'm going to contact Support and tell them to fix this mess.

Recently, Ive been submitting some videos to DT with Stocksubmitter. And I just happened to click on one of those videos that had been accepted into my port. That video, and all of my other commercial videos, are marked with "Sell the rights." I quickly disabled that option from all the files that I submitted with Stocksubmitter.

When you upload content normally to DT (via their web uploader) I note that files are marked with "Sell the rights" as default which is ridiculous. I'm sure that the majority of contributors have no intention of selling the rights to most of their images. I should have realised that the same thing would happen with files that were submitted with Stocksubmitter. It was only by chance that I decided to click on one of these uploaded video files in my port and I made the unfortunate discovery.

And then I remembered that I had also uploaded videos with Stocksubmitter last year and for all that time, they had been marked with "Sell the rights" and I never realised until now.

It's been a while since Ive used Stocksubmitter. I recall there are two editorial checkboxes (one up high and one down below.) When submitting editorial files, should you select the higher checkbox or the lower one? It's been so long that I can't remember which one to select.

When I first joined DT years ago and was reading through all the info, I thought I had a fair idea of how their levels system worked. If I recall correctly, each time a photo sells, it reaches a higher level and you end up being paid higher commissions (or higher amounts) each time. But that doesn't work in reality. My latest sale was for a photo that has sold at least four times before. And this photo usually earns me exactly the same amount each time - $0.33c (including this latest sale.) Obviously subscription sales. One time, this image did earn me $1.90 for one of the earlier sales (which surprisingly was also a subscription sale.)

So I'm wondering what is the point of this levels system at DT? No matter how many times a photo sells and what level it is, you usually don't get an increase in earnings. It will usually be the same or similar amount each time. 

I requested payout on AS several days ago. But my PayPal account balance is still blank / completely empty. If I recall correctly, I think I may have requested payment around the end of November. I'm trying to remember if it's normal for there to be a delay between payout and the payment appearing in the PayPal account.

I think Ive been getting a better idea overall of what gets accepted as illustrative editorial. In fact, the majority of my IE images do get accepted at AS. However, there have been a few surprises in recent times. For example, I have a photograph of an electronics store with the brand name clearly visible on the building. Additionally, there are no people in the image. I thought that this would be ideal as an IE image. But it was rejected by AS for not meeting the IE guidelines. A few weeks later, I submitted the same image again with a modified description and it was rejected again for the same reason. I also have a photo of an accountancy firm with the name of the business visible on the building. Once again, there are no people in the photo. And this one was also rejected for not meeting the IE guidelines. I admit I'm really puzzled by these particular rejections for these images. Mat, can you offer any insight?

Just wondering if there's any free software out there that does a good job of reducing noise in video and still preserves detail?

I did hear good things about Neat Video but that's paid software and is quite expensive.

Is anyone else finding that the selection of categories for photos is a bit limited on AS? Two extra categories that I could think of right now (that could be very useful) are Health and Products.

I believe in the recent past, iStock accepted both sRGB and Adobe RGB files but I'm not sure if that's the case anymore. I did a search online but couldn't find any info on that. If they still do accept Adobe RGB files, do they display them online correctly so that the colours don't appear flat or dull?