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Messages - lucagavagna
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« on: March 15, 2017, 13:11 »
If we add VAT we are going to loose 22% they will never pay even if they should.
I address my invoice to the main office of the company in NY-USA
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« on: February 24, 2017, 10:05 »
I received this answer:
Please know that Pond5 does not withhold any of your royalties for tax purposes. It is your responsibility to report all your earnings yourself. You are welcome to view a Summary of your income for the year, by hovering over your Account avatar > Dashboard >> Financials > 2015: All months > OK
If you are a US resident who makes over $600 in a fiscal year, you will need to upload a current W-9. Doing this will ensure that you receive a copy of your 1099 report that is sent to the IRS. Please note, that these 1099 forms are usually mailed out at the end of January of every year. How quickly recipients will receive, will depend on the postal service.
I asked again about European laws and obligations. I'll let you know if they will answer me
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« on: February 24, 2017, 07:00 »
You are right, I didn't notice that.
I'm from Italy
I was used to receive money from Switzerland but since several months the money are coming from e UE country.
Did you send them a site mail?
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« on: February 15, 2017, 13:54 »
Yes I received twice the payment, the money areon my PayPal account. I sent a site message to Pond 5
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« on: December 15, 2016, 06:02 »
5 SS sale for each Adobe/Fotolia sale.
The tendency that I can observe from my minuscule point of view is that the other agencies, like Adobe/Fotolia and the newly active Pond5, are eating up SS primacy.
This event shuffles the cards but I cannot be sure the all sales that I lost in SS are going to be balanced by more sales in the other agencies
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« on: October 24, 2016, 09:58 »
Are the contracts of the other major agency different from this?
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« on: August 22, 2016, 05:06 »
Same here in Italy
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« on: June 15, 2016, 10:39 »
down in Italy
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« on: June 15, 2016, 10:38 »
also here in Italy. Not only contributors page but also the market page
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« on: June 08, 2016, 05:55 »
Se apri un conto PayPal molto semplice e non ti devi dannare in giro con gli assegni
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« on: May 15, 2016, 11:51 »
Membership program is just too bad.
No money for contributors and no money for the agency. They try to drive clients to the site but I'm afraid they are following a wrong strategy.
I think that the real problem in P5 is the site itself. When I buy clips I find P5 a bit confusing in the search results not nice curated and presented, so I go and choose on SS or IS which I find more clear. I'm afraid they should work on the search algorithm to give a smart experience to the customer better then to try other ways to drive clients like the free footage collection or the membership program.
They are investigating different ways but they are using explosives to open those ways and it's very dangerous for everybody in the industry.
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« on: May 02, 2016, 04:49 »
For example the work of SpaceStockFootage worth much more than those prices they sell it.
Customer would by it anyway if it costedt 5 or 6 times more.
I'll take that as a compliment, thanks! People do buy it at 5 to 6 and sometimes ten times more... but at the moment, the sales I get from VideoHive outweigh the sales I get elsewhere, even at the greatly reduced prices. I've been on VH for about six years, but have only been properly focusing on stock for the last two years. There and at Pond5. In the last six months, I started trying SS, iS, VB, FT etc. Sales there are increasing gradually, so hopefully some time later this year or the next... my sales from other sites will be on a par with Envato. Time will tell.
Six months ago I was making about $100 a month from non-Envato sites. Last month I made $700 from non-Envato sites, so I'm getting there.
Exactly, that's the way! Your work is good! In my opinion you should avoid t be competitor with yourself, stop selling low price!
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« on: May 02, 2016, 03:26 »
Self pricing would be good, now they just need to match the P5 50% and declare themselves an agency and I will start uploading 
I agree, prices there are too low. I don't hope they are going to grow with this dumping attitude. For example the work of SpaceStockFootage worth much more than those prices they sell it. Customer would by it anyway if it costedt 5 or 6 times more. in my opinion Videohive, for the moment, is a tramp
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« on: April 28, 2016, 01:26 »
Same here, no refund for the moment!
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« on: April 19, 2016, 11:23 »
I saw several things on YouTube filmed with bublecam and Theta. Now GO-Pro just announce its Omni, a system that put together 6 Hero4. That could be a nice set for about three thousand dollars which is a lot of money but can be considered as an investment.
The problem is going to be the post production and the stitching of such a huge quantity of data. We don't know about it
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« on: April 19, 2016, 09:56 »
Something like that.
It seems like not all the clips are on line all the time (in my case I have only footage on FT)
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« on: April 19, 2016, 09:03 »
For what I can see on line, the footage filmed with cameras up to $ 1.000,00 is very bad.
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« on: April 18, 2016, 03:11 »
Congratulations unfortunately I cannot say the same. I found Fotolia extremely slow. The slowest among all agencies something like two year of Fotolia worth 1 month of SS
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« on: March 16, 2016, 06:05 »
I never had this problem, I received the monthly payment today on my PayPal account, so I hope you can solve the problem easily.
At VB are normally very collaborative
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« on: March 13, 2016, 15:29 »
Well if prices are low then authors get less per clip and Envato get less per clip. I'm on about total revenue though.
As for a low number of clips overall, that's a very valid point. Envato do seem to be heading in the right direction when it comes to prices though, as they've gradually been increasing over time. There was a post from the Envato forums that somebody linked to the other day where some guy was getting 25% per sale on a $4 HD clip. So $1. That was back in 2011. They're now paying 36% per sale (50 to 70% for exclusive), and HD clips are now $8 ($9 for over 30 seconds and $10 for over 60 seconds). So that's $2.88
Still not much, but a big increase on what authors were getting five years ago. Number of clips are increasing pretty rapidly as well, but I can never see them reaching the likes of Pond5. Footage and motion graphics do seem to be quite secondary to After Effects projects, so I can understand it not being the go to place for stock buyers/shooters. I still feel that most people should be looking at three things when it comes to uploading tot a site or not... how much the clips are priced at, what percentage the author gets and how many sales the author gets, or is likely to get. A great result on all three of those is the holy grail, but I've not found it yet.
I mean, $300 a clip is great, but not if you're getting 1% a sale... and 100% a sale is great, but not if you're not getting any sales.
Your stuff is cool. It's a pity that you sell it so cheap. If I want to buy your stuff and I found it in a place for 8 bucks, I will not buy it where is more expensive. But if I can only find it a bit more expensive then I'll pay for the stuff I need.
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« on: February 11, 2016, 13:19 »
If everybody is of the same good opinion, I might have rented a body with problems
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« on: February 09, 2016, 17:10 »
No sharpening in any of the two files
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« on: February 09, 2016, 16:55 »
I know it's not a scientific test. It's just what I experimented in a real situation.
About the shaking I wrote in a previous post how difficult was to avoid shaking with that camera. Maybe in that sample the stabilizer was not working but I had troubles also on a tripod with the stabilizer deactivated.
The colour balance in term of kelvin is the same in the two details but the two files have different colours which is not unusual.
I cropped the original files, I didn't resized them.
As I said I didn't make any lab test. I just had to face two situation and it was not the revolution I expected.
I had the chance to work with a Sony A7 S to shoot a video in low light conditions and in that case I got a big result from tha camera.
I can suggest that before buying a Sony A7 RII it is maybe useful to rent one for a day and see if you feel satisfied with it and if it's worth the investment
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« on: February 09, 2016, 15:32 »
Here are the two examples. I cannot show the whole picture because of the faces. It's just two details in low light. 1600 ASA
The results are not so different one another so to justify the investment.
I cropped them but I didn't reduce the image dimension
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« on: February 09, 2016, 09:23 »
We own two 5D mark II and we use them for shooting and filming. Not only for microstock.
Last week we had to face two different problems in the same day.
We had to reproduce a paint in the morning and the customer asked us for a big file.
In the afternoon we had to shoot a corporate portrait to 30 persons in the same picture, in a location with low light and difficulties in lighting the scene.
So we decided to rent a Sony A7RI. It seemed the perfect camera for both assignments.
Unfortunately the results were not exciting. The 42 MP file was very complicate to manage because of the micro shaking (we used a strong tripod, we shut off stabilizer in camera and lens and finally we used electronic shutter to reduce all possible vibrations but still we had to take several picture to obtain just one good enough.
The lens was a canon 70/200 2,8 at 135 f/11 but the resolution of the lens was sufficient to give the extra sharp image that we needed at 100 ASA.
In the afternoon we shot at 1600 ASA with both a Canon 5 D mark III and the Sony A7RII. We used a Canon 24/70 2,8 lens for both camera.
The results were surprising. Canon 5D III was better in any sense, colour, definition in every area of the picture. Even noise was better.
So for the moment we are not going to switch to Sony.
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