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« on: February 20, 2017, 04:40 »
That would still be a great amount per clip, congratulations!
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« on: February 20, 2017, 04:19 »
Ahoy there! Maximum average of $5 per month, per clip, per site. That's on places like Videoblocks though. Total combined across all agencies... about $14 to $17.
I have two lots of stuff though... non-exclusive, which covers the stuff listed above, and exclusive which is a bit different. It includes a lot of stuff I made recently which makes a lot more than $15 a month (AE Templates and the like) and a lot of older stuff that wasn't very good... which makes a lot less than $15 a month.
If you divide your income by your total amount of clips (not just the ones that sell) you get $14 to $17? So if you have 500 clips, you earn around $7000 to $8500 a month? 
78
« on: February 16, 2017, 02:59 »
Interlaced in 2017? Only if it's very special. You are not limited by your software, instead why do you limit yourself to using that software?
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« on: February 11, 2017, 15:11 »
I'm also having problems with Pond5. This should be fixed, it's not freeware.
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« on: February 07, 2017, 04:05 »
we're back to square one, ask shutterstock to lodge the money into your bank account. they cant. so you use paypal to get paid, great service, so you pay for that. dont understand the moaning. if a client tells you that your image is too expensive, they say, its digital, cost you nothing to shoot a photo, just your camera. what do you say? but but but my time, the editing, my electricity bill, the office rent, etc etc all cost money. same difference.
Thank you for your constructive contribution to this discussion.
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« on: February 06, 2017, 12:14 »
Paypal support told me today that the only way for me to get dollars is to open a bank account in the USA. Pretty much what we established here already.
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« on: February 06, 2017, 10:01 »
Well if you're losing hundreds from the 2.5%, you're gaining thousands from the Euro being 1.05 to the Dollar rather than 1.25... swings and roundabouts!
For each $10k it costs $250 in conversion fees. I think that is expensive. My regular bank takes 1%, or $100. Big difference. It's huge. Bad.
But I agree, the exchange rates have had a big (positive) impact on my earnings. 1 euro is $1.07 today but it was $1.31 five years ago.
Its relative I suppose but $150 on $10,000 doesn't sound "huge" to me
I like to see how you negotiate a mortgage for example.
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« on: February 06, 2017, 06:41 »
Well if you're losing hundreds from the 2.5%, you're gaining thousands from the Euro being 1.05 to the Dollar rather than 1.25... swings and roundabouts!
For each $10k it costs $250 in conversion fees. I think that is expensive. My regular bank takes 1%, or $100. Big difference. It's huge. Bad. But I agree, the exchange rates have had a big (positive) impact on my earnings. 1 euro is $1.07 today but it was $1.31 five years ago.
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« on: February 06, 2017, 06:08 »
I don't think many hundreds of dollars is a fair fee for a bank. My regular bank accounts are much less expensive.
Clearly you earn far more than me
I'm talking per year, not per month.  But most of my income is in dollars, that I have to convert to euros.
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« on: February 06, 2017, 03:03 »
I don't think many hundreds of dollars is a fair fee for a bank. My regular bank accounts are much less expensive.
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« on: January 31, 2017, 04:38 »
Lecaro, I can open a USD bank account right here where I live, but it's Paypal policy to only payout in currency local to where the bank account is situated.
The banks are not at fault here. They won't change USD to EUR, Paypal does that.
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« on: January 31, 2017, 03:51 »
Adobe is really good here, had a return but I could keep the money. In fact, I hadn't even requested payout yet.
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« on: January 30, 2017, 04:44 »
Thanks everyone for the replies!
Exchange rate to EUR is 3.5%. This means it costs $350 for every $10k, which is insane.
It's high enough that I will try to open a bank account in the USA if I happen to be there. It's not expensive enough to take the gamble of booking a flight, especially considering the difficulties of actually getting a bank account without have an actual address somewhere in the USA.
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« on: January 30, 2017, 03:50 »
I upload everything in Prores 422 HQ. File are huge but it's doable. We don't have data limits here. What are the data caps you have?
The pros and cons of Prores vs H264 have been discussed here often. Basically, H264 is a great delivery codec, but sucks as an intermediary codec. (ie, quality deteriorates quickly when doing color correction and/or vfx on H264 files)
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« on: January 27, 2017, 04:38 »
That's really weird because I can withdraw in EUR or USD, whichever currency I have balance in.
Account was registered in Bulgaria, main currency is EUR.
How does this work, do you have a USD bank account?
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« on: January 27, 2017, 04:33 »
Does anyone have a method of avoiding the appalling Paypal currency exchange rates? Some of my earnings from stock sales is in dollars, and Paypal will only let me withdraw in euros. And thus forcing me to accept the exchange rate from Paypal that is much worse than just about anywhere else.
It costs me hundreds of euros each year.
Probably your main currency is euro, I live in Bulgaria and somehow my main currency is usd and I just attached debit card with usd currency to paypal so I do not get charged for currency conversion. Although I get charged for the opposite, when I receive euro I need to withdraw in usd  , so in the end it always costs me money.
Paypal told me I can only withdraw in USD when I attach an real bank account from the USA. I can open a USD bank account here in the Netherlands, but that won't work. (in fact, they will actually convert from USD to EUR back to USD again in this scenario! Paypal support told me.) But there is no way for me to open a bank account in the USA (that I'm aware of)
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« on: January 27, 2017, 04:29 »
i always wonder why people think using a service should be free, without realizing that without that service they would have to use cheques or bank payments and pay 10-100 times more to get paid.
i am happy paypal is around to make my life a lot easier when its payday
I wonder that about that too, I'm not asking for free service. I also wonder why people bend over so easily, while frowning upon the less flexible.
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« on: January 26, 2017, 12:50 »
Does anyone have a method of avoiding the appalling Paypal currency exchange rates? Some of my earnings from stock sales is in dollars, and Paypal will only let me withdraw in euros. And thus forcing me to accept the exchange rate from Paypal that is much worse than just about anywhere else.
It costs me hundreds of euros each year.
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« on: January 11, 2017, 03:38 »
I've had the same problem with them a few years back. Eventually I got my payout and dumped them immediately. (don't ask them to delete your portfolio but demand them to remove your account entirely)
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« on: December 17, 2016, 10:26 »
Ummm... sRGB monitors can also be calibrated and profiled, so if you calibrate your display, you're not really avoiding anything by not using a wide gamut display. Also, a lot of wide gamut monitors support something like "sRGB mode", which you can usually turn on very easily.
sRGB mode was really bad on the Dell. I do calibrate all my monitors, but that doesn't change the fact that what you see is not what customers will see. Simply because you are used to the wider gamut, the result in sRGB is either less saturated or you get clipping in saturation that you could have avoided by using a very nice sRGB monitor. (simply because you would have adjusted your image for that.) I'm talking footage in particular. Since some/many applications do not work nicely with colorsync profiles, wide gamut it is a mess, even in 2016. At least, that's my experience. Wide gamut for video is becoming interesting again with HDR, and the DCI-P3 and Rec. 2020 color spaces.
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« on: December 16, 2016, 05:05 »
I suffered a wide gamut display for many years (Dell 3008), and now I finally have a sRGB display again. So many problems and irritations. I now have the same gamut as my customers, which makes live so much easier. It also makes my products better because I there is no more guessing. You never know which programs support color profiles. Adobe software is messy with that. Videoplayers all think differently, and so do encoders.
Run while you can!!
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« on: December 15, 2016, 06:43 »
For me SS income is also around 10x Adobe/Fotolia.
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« on: December 14, 2016, 05:05 »
please, show me the result of your 2080 hours
On an annual basis, an Full Time Employee is considered to be 2,080 hours, which is calculated as:
8 hours per day
x 5 work days per week
x 52 weeks per year
= 2,080 hours per year
FTE in The Netherlands is around 1650 hours, but we also probably earn less.
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« on: December 08, 2016, 02:54 »
If your clips were priced higher, than that thread doesn't apply to you.
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