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Pond5 / Re: Pond5 video sales since royalty cut
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Sales typical in volume....but then there's the 40% instead of 50% commission thing
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Pond5 / Re: Pond5 video sales since royalty cut« on: May 15, 2019, 22:32 »
Sales typical in volume....but then there's the 40% instead of 50% commission thing
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Shutterstock.com / Re: 5 word minimum« on: May 15, 2019, 10:39 »it is a dumb idea because no one reads the description when making a decision to purchase an image. Are they saying you have to go back and re-"description" images that are already uploaded? 478
Adobe Stock / Re: Creative Cloud giveway for Adobe Stock Contributors« on: May 05, 2019, 09:13 »
I am by no means an expert, but I think you could set up multiple masks on the same "layer" or node. If that doesn't work, you could add additional nodes. I think if you kept them on the same node, all displacements or tracking movements would be identical. Again, I could be totally wrong, but that's what I would try.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Creative Cloud giveway for Adobe Stock Contributors« on: May 05, 2019, 07:11 »I have the 'free year' for Photoshop/Lightroom, which runs until sometime later this year. What exactly is it that you are having difficulty replicating in Resolve? 480
Video Equipment / Sofware / Technique / Re: Stabilize video with After Effects or Premiere Pro« on: May 01, 2019, 13:12 »
How do the adobe stabilizers compare to the DaVinci Resolve 15 stabilizer?
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock announces new Head of Content« on: April 26, 2019, 07:57 »
Let's not forget editorial content!
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Pond5 / Re: Pomd5 payout« on: April 04, 2019, 12:11 »
I believe it is automated sometime around mid-month. Not sure about threshold.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Terms« on: April 02, 2019, 15:30 »
Got the message as well. It was odd in that the "new" terms were dated June 2018.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Uniting contributors for better royalty, price control and safeguarding this industry« on: April 01, 2019, 11:15 »There is room for a Stocksy style coop for the common folk. Stocksy has done a great job of creating an artsy boutique agency... a larger big tent coop could also succeed. Regarding photos on P5; they seem to have (almost literally) no photo sales. So while it is great that you set your own price, to build something there around photos wouldn't be very useful. 485
General Stock Discussion / Re: Uniting contributors for better royalty, price control and safeguarding this industry« on: March 28, 2019, 10:35 »We've been successful as a group a few times. iStock has plummeted after many people pulled their work;I doubt very much if, in this case, people pulling ports has been reponsible for iS plummetting. It's far more likely to be the result of very poor management decisions (which were, after all, the reason for people pulling ports). What is the definition of "plumetting"?...my sense is that there are many exclusives still there that are doing well. If they truly plumetted they wouldn't be in the "top Tier" of income in the poll results....just trying to understand here... 486
General Stock Discussion / Re: Pond5 "Good News"!« on: March 22, 2019, 07:49 »I did it, yep for 8 years I was an Getty Exclusive. When I dropped it and spread my work out it was really tough! I barely made it through on income and my hands ached for typing and uploading all my clips. It was worth it in the long run. I do a lot of model released work so I may give the Pond5 exclusive a go for at least a year. Good luck to all of us on any path we choose! So you feel that the 6/5 increase in royalty rate on P5 will make up for your income from the other agencies going to 0? 487
General Stock Discussion / Re: Pond5 "Good News"!« on: March 21, 2019, 22:26 »I think they have heard that loud and clear so I am waiting to see how it shakes down. If they do nothing then bad news! I do feel they have been a good agency to work with so I am trying to think positive here. But what about the simple math here? Do you see it such that dropping out of all other agencies and going exclusive at P5 will earn you more money? And as for stills, there are virtually 0 sales at P5. Stills content that sells almost every day and sometimes multiple times per day on other sites has not sold one copy at P5 in over a year. 488
General Stock Discussion / Re: Pond5 "Good News"!« on: March 21, 2019, 12:17 »I think their (P5) point was that if the content is only available on their platform, they control the price therefore the price would not be slowly eroded by different agencies competing with each other selling the same content. Good point!...they said that, but they also used the example of stock photo prices declining due to vendors competing with each other with the same content. So yes I agree with you that the "...buyers didn't want the clips being used by other buyers..." argument never made sense since it is stock content. 489
General Stock Discussion / Re: Pond5 "Good News"!« on: March 21, 2019, 12:06 »Well, that was a long way of saying "sales are going down, business not so good, we need a bigger cut". FWIW this is the same logic as iS (or for that matter any stock vendor) charging more for exclusive content. In one sense I never understood it because the content can still be seen "all over the place" if purchased many times. I think their (P5) point was that if the content is only available on their platform, they control the price therefore the price would not be slowly eroded by different agencies competing with each other selling the same content. I think that makes sense, but what doesn't make sense is that it seems the individual contributors will be taking a hit by only selling on P5....unless they(the contributor) significantly raised their price points 490
General Stock Discussion / Re: Should Agencies Boost Prices of Images that have Strong Sales?« on: March 19, 2019, 08:35 »
I understand the "buyer confusion" argument. But maybe if the scheme was a simple one with maybe two tiers of pricing.
Currently, some sites have "premium" collections (or the entire site is premium). This premium content is judged/dictated by the agency whether the actual content is in fact desirable or not (I would guess the majority of premium content never sells...just like any other content). If you have content that sells nearly every day, it could earn more money with appropriate pricing.....it can be frustrating when it is priced at the same point as content which never or rarely sells. Content which has demonstrated strong salability should be appropriately valued/rewarded! And of course this would be best as a contributor opt-in. 491
General Stock Discussion / Should Agencies Boost Prices of Images that have Strong Sales?« on: March 18, 2019, 16:58 »
Wouldn't it make sense for agencies to boost prices of images with strong sales? Or maybe to give the option to the contributor to do so?
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Shutterstock.com / Re: AdobeStock pays 35% on video sales, but Shutterstock only pays 30%.« on: March 10, 2019, 09:36 »I like Adobe, I actually i preferred Fotolia and sell more videos there. Do you have editorial video content or all commercial? 493
Adobe Stock / Re: Setting Poster Frame on Videos - Adobestock« on: March 08, 2019, 17:15 »What's a poster frame? I guess I don't know or use that. A poster frame is the still frame you see that represents the video file shown in a search or your portfolio. 494
Adobe Stock / Setting Poster Frame on Videos - Adobestock« on: March 08, 2019, 10:08 »
Is there a way to set or change the poster frame on a video file on Adobestock?
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Adobe Stock / Re: Editorial Video in Adobe?« on: March 06, 2019, 22:33 »
Talking about both editorial photos and videos here. Have both on other sites and they sell.
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Adobe Stock / Proper Way to Ask AS about a video rejection?« on: March 06, 2019, 08:47 »
Hi,
Where is the proper link to enquire regarding a file rejection. In this case I did a number of green screen silhouettes and they were all rejected for "technical issues". A generic response, plus they were all accepted at SS. I need to know exactly what the perceived "technical issue" is so I can address it. Thanks! 497
Adobe Stock / Re: Editorial Video in Adobe?« on: March 05, 2019, 09:18 »I am amazed how well editorial video sells and some for very high prices. True for stills as well! 498
Video Equipment / Sofware / Technique / Re: Creating Transparent Video« on: March 04, 2019, 09:11 »
Have you seen a sales benefit to an alpha channel or "transparency" vs. green screen?
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General - Stock Video / Re: ProRes or H.264« on: February 24, 2019, 09:07 »
Not sure what cameras people are using, but if your camera is putting out H.264 and you aren't massaging the video much, seems like a wasted to go Prores delivery. Kind of like resaving a .jpg. as a tiff...the "damage" is already done.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe RGB or sRGB ?« on: February 21, 2019, 14:23 »Just curious, Do you upload your photos in Adobe RGB or sRGB to Adobe Stock? Mat, what is the reasoning for that...as I have uploaded my entire library in aRGB? |
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