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« on: January 31, 2016, 12:26 »
Ken Burns is the official technique name.
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« on: January 30, 2016, 17:02 »
Apparently it's a secret because I've asked for render settings for h.264 export before (Premiere or AE) and nobody responded.
I try again now, if anyone would like to share their settings? I understand that file size of Photo-JPG is not favorable but for the life of me I cannot achieve artifact-free renderings of my CG clips (TIFF sequences) with h.264.
Photo-JPG is as easy as can be using 95% quality and every single frame is tack sharp without any artifacts.
Kindly note that I'm talking about 3D renders and not large gradient ares such as skies etc.
I've been toying around with ProRes on PC but Fotolia seems to have encoding issues (at least for the preview) and it's propably not the preferred way for (buyers/editors to use PC encoded ProRes copmpared to Mac generated files?
Thanks in advance.
I have exactly the same problems but the other way around. It could well be that there is not correct answer and the best codec is media dependant.
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« on: January 29, 2016, 14:18 »
It's a question I've spent some time contemplating and researching and reading about and in the end, despite all the reasons about why photo-jpeg should be better, I could not see it on the clips. Yes H.264 recompresses but it's still a better quality clip.
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« on: January 22, 2016, 20:34 »
It's like buying sponges on the Titanic.
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« on: January 13, 2016, 12:38 »
Quote from Wikipedia,
"In business, the term long tail is applied to rank-size distributions or rank-frequency distributions (primarily of popularity), which often form power laws and are thus long-tailed distributions in the statistical sense. This is used to describe the retailing strategy of selling a large number of unique items with relatively small quantities sold of each (the "long tail") usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities (the "head"). Sometimes an intermediate category is also included, variously called the body, belly, torso, or middle. The specific cutoff of what part of a distribution is the "long tail" is often arbitrary, but in some cases may be specified objectively; see segmentation of rank-size distributions.
The long tail concept has found some ground for application, research, and experimentation. It is a term used in online business, mass media, micro-finance (Grameen Bank, for example), user-driven innovation (Eric von Hippel), and social network mechanisms (e.g. crowdsourcing, crowdcasting, peer-to-peer), economic models, and marketing (viral marketing)."
Sell a little of many equals quite a bit.
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« on: January 08, 2016, 22:35 »
If they want a restrictive license then charge accordingly.
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« on: January 06, 2016, 17:23 »
What do you mean by sell?
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« on: January 03, 2016, 09:38 »
Hi everyone...I was wondering..is there a possibility to upload a pack of 5 video files together, and selling together on Pond5 and Shutterstock? ...like on videohive..where you can do this. thanks!
Fortunately P5 discourages this otherwise soon we'd be uploading our entire collection on a 10 hour single clip. I often see multiple sales of the same location to the same buyer at the same time.
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« on: December 30, 2015, 11:03 »
Micro = you make pennies
Macro = you make dollars
Micro - you make pennies often
Macro - you make dollars from time to time
Micro - you make pennies- often - but not as often as you'd like. Macro - you make dollars- from time to time - but not as often as you'd like.
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« on: December 26, 2015, 18:04 »
Sold two images today! $1.40 I am richer!!
Must have gone to Star Wars recently 
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« on: December 18, 2015, 11:46 »
I honestly don't think it effects their career at all, at least not in a negative way. Unless they agree to do something really dumb that shows them in a way they won't want to see later. I've used actors who now get good parts in Hollywood productions and I've never received a complaint. Fact is everyone thinks their going to be the next A List star and that is so far from reality its not worth considering.
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« on: December 16, 2015, 21:04 »
Probably the easiest way is to deal with them in Excel. Search for a particular keyword and bulk delete it. I often use "people, person, man, men" etc. Get rid of men and people. In a large group you may be deleting several hundred words at a go.
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« on: December 16, 2015, 16:14 »
That's because everyone is done with their introductory year.
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« on: December 14, 2015, 13:38 »
I am all for paying the creator for their work. But any business practices 101 course will tell you that 100% royalties is hard to maintain while at the same time damaging the overall business. Seriously, how do you help someone like this grow?
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« on: December 11, 2015, 13:35 »
I don't submit there anymore - or to any microstocks.
]]You must mean macro-stocks.
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« on: December 11, 2015, 09:09 »
Hi,
Alamy hasn't send me the $$$ this month, because apparently the client hasn't paid for the images which have been purchased in October, almost 2 months ago.
Is this the new business model? Photographers lending money to agency and clients?
Any thoughts on this?
Yes, now you understand the way they do business. Payment doesn't need to be made in many cases until the image is published. That can be a long time.
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« on: December 09, 2015, 09:39 »
Using Shutterstock's numbers in their IPO if only 60% of images are accepted that means they've reviewed 1.2 million images for that one week in December (723K accepted). That's 62.4 million submitted images per year if I use the 723k number. WOW WOW WOW -
If someone spent 5 seconds on a review that would be 41 man days of review time to throughput that many images.
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« on: December 04, 2015, 15:05 »
Is anyone running Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan and using Lightroom. Last year I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan when it came out and it was not compatible with Lightroom 4 and PS CS5. My entire system went down. I had to restore my Mac back to its original operating system and I have not upgraded to the newer OSX. This bothers me because I would like to be using Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan but I need my Adobe Software to work.
Thanks
This is a known issue with both Apple and Adobe. I have several hours invested in talking with both companies tech support. It is an Apple El Capitan issue. Bridge and Lightroom are both affected. The last message received from Adobe is they are waiting for Apple to upgrade El Capitan OS.
El Capitan is a crippled OS.
Normally I'm on Apple's cheering squad but lately I am more and more disappointed with them. They barrel along expecting everyone to follow with zero consideration that there might be something people use there systems for besides making FB updates.
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« on: December 04, 2015, 08:38 »
Thanks for posting. My LR has many problems under ElCap. But then it had problems under the last OS but not as bad as this one. I don't know if it's Adobe of Apple but I wish someone would stop the MerryGoRound of upgrades and stabilize the systems.
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« on: December 03, 2015, 17:55 »
I upload both 4k H.264 and HD PhotoJPEG.
Customers regularly download the original HD PhotoJPEG, instead of the downsized 4k->HD H.264 version.
So the question is do they prefer the Photojpeg or are the searches biased to the HD? It would be nice to know the answer.
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« on: December 03, 2015, 17:03 »
On GI, HD and 4K are on the same price and to be honest I like it that way, so I'm sure clients get the optimal quality.
But what about the creator getting the optimal price?
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« on: December 03, 2015, 14:51 »
does that work for video files?
It works for all kinds of media. There is a glitch with one codec at 4k I have seen which may be an issue. There are workarounds for this but other than that it's quite nice. I find it becomes the central hub for distribution since its easy to drag whatever media you want off to an ftp uploader. I wish there were one really good asset management system. It sure isn't Lightroom.
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« on: December 03, 2015, 13:11 »
The only possible advantage would be if the site does preferential searches or if the buyer is a bit confused when a 4k clip is presented when he's looking for HD or something else like this.
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« on: December 03, 2015, 13:09 »
The best thing is use Expressions Media for your master captioning/keywording program. It has many many options to output the metadata in whatever order you want from which you can generate CSVs very easily for any agency.
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