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« on: October 28, 2017, 12:39 »
I've unfortunately had some this month too. All 4K. I've asked videoblocks how they can verify that my files won't be mistreated as there email suggests the person has destroyed the file. My argument is how can they say this when the file was bought fraudulently? Obviously they will end up on file sharing websites for free. Videoblocks need to do something ASAP as this is a serious violation on our behalf.
This got me wondering too.....
Wouldn't it be amazing if someone could produce a unique code for each sale of the file, kind of hidden in the .mov container (or such like) each sale had a unique code that if was bought fraudulently or misused - we as the copyright holders could type in that unique code and make that file self destruct. Surly in this day and age a good coder could create such a thing? Or am I wishful thinking?
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« on: October 19, 2017, 17:13 »
Hope it's the start of an amazing career. I remember my first sale. It was of a time lapse sun through winter trees from dawn to dusk. I was amazed that someone would pay money for something I created... 6 years later I'm doing this full time and living my dream. I have quality time at home (filming when I need to) and most importantly watching my kids grow up.
Hope it's the start of something big for you:)
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« on: October 19, 2017, 09:56 »
Like JJNeff I too was exclusive on istock/Getty up until Start of 2016.
I had 6000 clips to transfer to all the big stock sites. It's hard and boring and can seem a slog. I didn't create too much new content in 2016 due to uploading process.
Use CSV - It's a must - Massive time saver. There's nothing to it really. All the big sites now accept it. I use pond5's version and just amend it slightly for the rest.
So a year and a half on and I look back and think why didn't I leave exclusivity years ago?
I'm selling and making way more. Shutter took 6 months for my port to stabilize. Adobe straight away really. Storyblocks (Videoblocks) straight away and Pond5 took around a year until I received a consistent monthly income that I was happy with.
I've only a handful of clips on Dissolve but sell a few every month so my target this year is to upload my port to them. They might be worth checking out?
Remember CSV and good luck!
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« on: October 18, 2017, 15:16 »
What file format are they in? They don't except mp3 now only .wav and aiff + maybe some other high end formats
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« on: October 18, 2017, 01:58 »
Same thing is happening to me. For every 10 clips 2 seem to vanish into thin air. Been like this for a month or so now. Really annoying.
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« on: October 16, 2017, 09:14 »
I think the one possible explanation is that aliens are doing research on human life, and they of course need 4k.
Ha ha ha... imagine learning what human life was like if only stock video's existed after our demise.
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« on: October 16, 2017, 06:08 »
Ok so it was a stolen card and by the looks of it hundreds? (5 of mine) were downloaded. SB doing their best to stop this happening.
Anyway; why would someone do this? Must be to re-sell based on the subject matter and variety of mine.
I think we should all try and find the stolen videos. You can reverse search a video using a thumbnail and google or the other methods.
What are the other methods?
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« on: October 03, 2017, 06:49 »
I really don't believe in this cap thing people are going on about. I think if portfolios aren't up to date and experimental and you don't add new and exciting material then sales will become stagnant.
My own personal Experience:
Started on Shutterstock in 2011 with 40 highly niche clips. These 40 would make a minimum of $300 a month. Highest was $900.
In 2015 I uploaded 6000 clips and obviously my income went up. Not to the same ratio as the niche clips as these were fairly ordinary. - I saw no caps at all (in fact if there were a cap I think I should have been making a lot more when I uploaded the 6000 as my port grew highly overnight) but I saw the growth as expected.
A few months ago I started to upload some images (first time ever) They are basically stills from my 4K videos. I'm really amazed on how well they sell. From 30 images I'm making $30 a month or so. I wish I'd done this sooner really and I'm thinking of adding a lot more as I've already put the work into editing them from my clips. If anything I've seen my clip sales grow.
Looking at my graph it's an upwards trend - this is not due to upload amounts (10 clips a week BTW) but from trying to focus on modern niche content done to the best of my abilities.
I honestly think content is King. That old nutshell I know but it's true...
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« on: September 13, 2017, 16:04 »
I'd like to know what sales figures are like before I give my time uploading clips. They were pretty late to the video market and that makes me wonder what sales are like?
I uploaded a handful of clips to Dissolve at the start of the year and I get a few sales each month - but you've got to add up the time costs to think if it's worth it or not.
I don't know to much about Stocksy but this forum seems to make it feel like an elite club. I love the idea of a co-op and would like to be part of something that if you put a lot of work in then it pays you back.
The thing is how do we know what sales figures are like for video? Is the data out there somewhere?
I'm all up for giving my time and talent if the agency gives it back too.
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« on: September 07, 2017, 16:03 »
I'm not Canadian although I've been meaning to go there for ages. I want to take the family around the rockies in a campervan.
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« on: September 07, 2017, 14:51 »
Oh yeah mine too, I should be paying 0%
I seem to remember this happening a few years ago but it ended up being a bug and they had it sorted out before payday.
Hope they do the same again...
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« on: August 31, 2017, 04:20 »
I take it that you are non-exclusive?
Basically if your non-exclusive then all your clips are on getty but only a select number of people can view it. In a nut shell - they are available through Premium Access where they sell for pennies. There is nothing you can do to stop this except to delete your port - but this will be off istock too.
If your exclusive then your clips should be in the main collection (ie expensive clips) but also Premium Access. Lots of exclusives are finding that there main sales are drying up because of Premium Access.
Premium access is where Getty sells a membership to the big buyers for huge discounts. We don't see any money of the membership fee.
It's a pretty sorry affair really
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« on: August 28, 2017, 06:13 »
Hi, since 1st of August, i sold 27 pics and 7 videos on Istock... i'm new since may 2017 on IS, SS, AS. It was an incredible month for me with only 10 videos and 300 pics...
june, sold 5 pics (with around 80 pics)
july, sold 7 pics (around 200 pics)
and august... boom!
Congratulations!
You seem to be doing incredibly well, especially for video. I have never heard of anyone non exclusive doing well with video at istink.
Be aware though, some agencies give you several sales at the beginning as a welcome aboard package at the beginning
Video's are selling incredibly well on istock with download numbers 5-10 X that of shutterstock. Unfortunately the majority of these sell on the Getty side of things under premium access where the average download for HD/4K is under $1. Many are for $0.12. So when you say you have sold 7 videos I wouldn't be half surprised if you receive $0.84 for the lot of them. I get hundreds of sales every month on istock/getty where the new normal seems to be royalties in the $0.33 / $0.12 range. The old norm of single royalties in the $100's seem to be disappearing fast. Getty are just getting more greedy with the Premium Access and I really think they are shooting themselves in the foot. I haven't and many others been uploading there for a while now and soon enough their portfolio will look stale and stagnant (talking about video side of things). I'm non-exclusive BTW
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« on: July 21, 2017, 09:18 »
I read it as just the download number will increase, nothing about actual royalties. the download counter hasn't been working since Jan so I'm expecting the counter to rise.
I might have misinterpreted it wrong though? Where does it say about actual royalties and payments?
Mine did not change either so they must have encountered yet another bug?
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« on: July 20, 2017, 10:01 »
If you're out shooting nature, or someone hiking or something, I imagine the photographer has to hide behind a tree to not be in the shot. Really anywhere, you'd have to start it and hide, right?
There's usually somewhere to hide or I can cut myself out when editing. Just take two photos and move to a different place and it's easy.
For video, though, there's no editing, I imagine.
I think the idea is that you are a part of it so the viewer experiences what the videographer experiences. I got to admit that 360 video is way better than I ever expected. Using my phone and goggles really opened up an entire new world. Some of the video's out their are excellent. You could kind of mask yourself out but thats alot of effort and I enjoy the video's more when the people are in the shot. I'm looking forward to having a 360 camera on a drone. I think that would be pretty cool. There is no doubt that technology is changing fast and people will always want stock footage. We just have to be creative behind it. Future looks fun to me 
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« on: July 19, 2017, 17:00 »
So close to last month I feel like reaching for the tinfoil hat and calling a cap 
Ha Ha I Know how you feel. In April I got exactly the same amount as March right down to the cents. It was exactly the same ****.** That was just too uncanny for me. June was just extremely ordinary for me after a really good May. I got to admit that Premium Access Time Limited is Killing me. 4K footage files that cost quite a bit to produce are selling for $0.12 and I get 100's a month. I still get the big sales too but I feel that Getty is really pushing the Premium Access hard. It will mean the end of footage on Getty as they are showing truly how greedy they are. Charging $10,000 + dollars a year membership for company's to download our footage and keeping 99.999% of the $$$ and all we get are the crappy $0.12 after they take the 80% from a ridiculous sub fee. How is this allowed and possible? There should be a law about this?
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« on: July 19, 2017, 15:38 »
Or could be an associate taking similar pics - or the wife as this has been done numerous times and istock are OK with it apparently. I still think it's wrong
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« on: July 14, 2017, 09:03 »
I also have to click out of the login window and then click login again otherwise It won't work for me. I have to login 3 or 4 times a day too which is really annoying
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« on: June 22, 2017, 15:21 »
I dont mean any nasty pans or tilts, just genital motion.
That -would- help sell them.
Ha ha ha God my spelling is bad. meant gentle. Wonder what genital motion is? I wouldn't like to think... If LouisPhotos uses a translator to read this, I wonder what it wrote?
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« on: June 22, 2017, 14:57 »
Your white balance is brilliant and clean looking. Think you're models are good, you just need lots more clips now and possibly work a little on the concept side. Also don't be afraid to move the camera a little. I dont mean any nasty pans or tilts, just genital motion. Another thing I find help sales is playing with the depth of field, Don't be scared to have a shallow depth of field.
How long have you been doing this? Sales will come, it just takes a while for the clips to find their place in the search.
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« on: June 15, 2017, 02:39 »
I'm pretty new to dissolve and had a few sales in the last few months which nets me $23.70.
However this month I've had 3 downloads which has net me $53.34 - thats $17.78 each sale and not the usual $23.70.
Where does this money go to? Why are they charging the customer $79.00 for each clip but I'm getting the % from $59.25? Doesn't seem fair to me?
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« on: May 30, 2017, 03:39 »
I can't see a video option on their website?
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« on: May 28, 2017, 15:47 »
A Bank Holiday Monday tomorrow for the UK too (Bank Holiday is a holiday for everyone for those outside UK).
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« on: May 20, 2017, 11:53 »
It's my understanding that iStock earnings/payments are now processed/displayed in the Getty ESP, right?
They're saying I should have a payment on April 25th, but I haven't received anything yet.
Am I understanding this system wrong, or are there other issues going on?
They show what you're going to get on the 20th and then we get payed on the 25th. So 5 days to go yet...
April 25th was about 25 days ago.
Or do you mean to say, they show you what you're getting paid for the NEXT month?
Yes it's always a month behind.
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