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MicrostockSubmitter / Image status updates not working?
« on: July 24, 2020, 11:43 »
The only agency that SS properly reports the acceptance status for is Alamy it seems (out of the 9 I submit to). Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong? The other agencies only show uploaded and then submitted status.

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General Stock Discussion / Keywording to fit ALL agencies?
« on: July 21, 2020, 09:17 »
I used to be an iStock exclusive, so I knew exactly how to keyword for them, now however I am not sure anymore as vocabularies are not controlled like on Getty. I am submitting to top 9 agencies.

I'm finding myself using synonyms and different forms of the same word a lot, which sometimes gets me over the allowed number of keywords. Is this necessary? I'll give you a few examples:

laugh, laughter, laughing
disinfection, disinfectant, disinfecting
happy, happiness
radiation, radioactive
virus, viral
joy, joyful
cut-out, cut out
protection, protective
emotion, emotional

Are these considered as different keywords, or does searching for one give you results for the other as well, whether you have it in your keywords or not?

Thanks!

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What happens to my iStock portfolio once I cancel photo exclusivity? I am about to do what I should've done years ago, but would like to understand everything that is about to change with it.

- What happens to my past signature+ files and files that are mirrored over to Getty? Do they get removed both from the + collection as well as from Getty?

- What happens to my Payoneer card and the way I receive payments?

- Is there a realistic way of getting your files onto the Getty site as RF once you are not exclusive any more?

- What is the best way to scrape my own keywords off of iStock? Preferably non qdisambiguated ones if possible? That would save me a ton of time as I put a lot of thought and research into metadata...

Anything else I need to know about canceling the exclusivity?

I've created accounts on AdobeStock, Shutterstock, Pond5, Dreamstime, 123RF, BigStock, DepositPhotis and Alamy so far and I will be using Stocksubmitter to submit both photos as well as videos to them. I will also continue submitting to iStock for another year or so at least, before evaluating based on my own data if my dignity is worth more than the scrapes I expect to receive from them.

Any other comments / suggestions more than welcome. Thank you!

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I am submitting videos to various different agencies. Unfortunately, they do not all have the same max size requirement, which means a single export cannot suit them all, unless I settle for the same lesser quality file (smallest in size) being also sent to the agencies that would otherwise allow bigger files than that.

Generally, in order to suit all agency size requirements, shorter files can be exported in these two codecs: ProRes 422 HQ & ProRes 422 (422 for those few agencies that find 422 HQ export too big), while longer ones have to be exported in ProRes 422 & ProRes 422 LT (LT for those agencies that find 422 export too big).

I don't want to export all files under 3500 Mb in size, just because Dreamstime for instance does not accept bigger files than that. For contrast, iStock allows 5000 Mb.

Is there any way I could export 2 or 3 versions (covering the max size requirements by the agencies), then have Stocksubmitter automatically send the best quality file available to each agency, based on their limitations?


SUMMARY / TLDR:
Can I provide Stocksubmitter with several versions of the same project (differently encoded), then have it automatically submit different files to different agencies based on their size/codec limitations, while stile have it count as the same file in StockSubmitter library of submissions (for future metadata editing and tracking purposes).

Thanks!

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