Pond5 and Adobe have teamed up to develop a one-of-a-kind plug-in that gives video editors seamless access to the largest collection of over 1,1 million royalty-free stock videos, including 330,000 royalty-free music tracks and sound effects, all exclusively within Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.

Users no longer need to leave the application Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and to interrupt their workflow, all - creating new content using RF stock footage and RF audio - is now done easily within the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 application. The new plug-in requires Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 (or later versions) and Mac OS 10.6.8 resp. Windows 7. It was developed by a Pond5 engineering team from Germany, Switzerland and the US.

David Hemly, Adobe�s Technical Sales Manager Pro Video/Audio Products Americas, has created an introduction on how to install and how to use the new plug-in, and demonstrates which new and great possibilities it offers (http://www.youtube.com/user/dhelmly?feature=mhee).

After testing it internally at Adobe for a couple of months, David says: "We are really excited with this plug-in. It is an amazingly simple way to work with stock footage. It's an excellent workflow and a great way to add clips to any project. For working with your clients in trying to put together your project, this is really fast."

More information:

http://www.pond5.com/adobe

Digital Releases
We are happy to announce that effective immediately iStock will accept model and property releases generated electronically by approved applications. This means you will be able to capture the necessary release information on an iPhone or Android app and shoot it directly to us with your upload. All digital, no paper.

There are several different digital release applications out there. We will accept Easy Release and VM Release. We strongly advise that our contributors use Easy Release. This app is available on iPhone/iPad and Android and works in all of our supported language. It contains all the information we require so you don't need to add anything.

We still require the same information about the model, as well as signatures and a witness. The difference is that you can now capture this information on a digital application.

We have prepared a FAQ page on digital releases including reference images which you can view here.

We are happy to announce the launch of a new feature that is sure to be appreciated by large content uploaders: the multi-indexing tool.

Imagine you're uploading a series of 50 images via FTP and need to index them all. Thanks to a dedicated interface, this new feature will save you time by letting you index all your images at once.

How does it work?

Once uploaded, all your images will be listed in a new section within your Files Management area: the "Indexing" tab.

To edit several files at the same time, you simply select the contents you wish to edit. These selected contents will appear dark grey and if you edit one by adding a keyword, for example, all the other selected files will also be updated with this keyword.

This works for keywords, but also for all other indexing fields, such as: Title, Type of file, Language, Country, Categories, Price, Release and Licensing Options).

Want to remove a keyword from all your files? Easy! Just select the files you wish to edit, and remove the keyword on one of the contents; all other indexations will automatically be updated.

We hope this feature will save you lots of time!

Team Fotolia