That's awesome. Their pricing optimization changes made them 11% more per download without having to pay any increase to contributors per download. 

How about passing a bit more of the rewards from that half a billion dollars in revenue and increases in profits on to the contributors?

Not really true, contributor RPD is noticeably high then 1-2 years ago, and way higher then it was in the past.
I agree that they could pay more to contributor, but i see RPD growth even higher than 11%

Quote from: tickstock on October 26, 2017, 00:34

Your prices are too low.

Yes, probably, I just up all of them to 79�... I just want try, I think when I get some sells I will increase more... Thanks for your opinon

Yes i think 79 for avarage 4K clips would be fine, I use similar prices. But your better and more interesting ones and topics without big oversupply could go even higher than that. So i think 79 should be the minimum for 4K, and the avarage is somewhat higher.

As for supplying free clips... if your intention is to drive traffic to your portfolio i don't think it would work very well. Most of my experience is from the photo side, but I've found that it's very rare that people look into portfolios. Maybe if they find some really rare and special subject.
Some time ago Shutterstock used to have a counter for portfolio visits. That time I used to have around 100 sales/day and less than one portfolio visit daily.
But still, it happens once in a while that someone seemingly searches my portfolio and buys 5-10-20 images of the same topic. Still it's not sure that those are portfolio visits... maybe someone just buys hundreds of images of a particular subject and many of them happens to be mine just by luck.
I wouldn't suggest to give away free footage for anyone. A good footage clip really takes work in setup, processing, computer power etc.... It's not something that should be offer for free. In the past sometimes I gave permission to some sites to put one of my images as weekly free photo on their front page when they asked.
But i think giving free videos are not something to consider

Its so frustrating because all agencyes AS, IS, Alamy, pond5, storyblocks accepted this items....
Just another question: If I am selling comercial on other sites is it ok to sell editorial on SS ?

Keep in mind that if you submit it as editorial then no retouching like removing labels or any element should be done. And with images like this you must include the keyword "illustrative editorial"

And yes, not accepting cameras as commercial seems to be a Shutterstock thing only

I have not sold any clips there yet.

When do you get a sale, do you receive an email?

I do for video sales. Haven't had photo sales yet

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Quote from: Zero Talent on October 18, 2017, 13:45

Here is the Petapixel link with demos of their new Luminosity/Color masking feature:

https://petapixel.com/2017/10/18/bye-bye-lightroom-hello-lightroom-cc-faster-lightroom-classic/

It is definitely interresting to have such option directly on RAW files.

Both of which are already in Capture One Pro, which is what I've switched to, as part of their local adjustment layers

I downloaded C1 pro trial version, but I'm unable to find the luminosity mask feature. I couldn't find any tutorials related to it.

Terminology varies product to product. The feature in C1 Pro is to create a mask (for a local adjustment layer) from a selection in the color editor.

https://help.phaseone.com/en/CO10/Editing-photos/Local-Adjustment.aspx#item17

https://fstoppers.com/education/how-create-adjustment-layers-based-color-capture-one-9-103450
If you look at tutorials on using the (up to 16) layers for local adjustments and using the Color Editor, you'll have what you need. It isn't highlighted as new in version 10 because it was introduced in version 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-KkdyxuNFk

Thanks, Jo Ann!
I was able to figure out the color masking tool from the first 2 tutorials you referred to.

However, this NOT a luminosity mask. It is a color mask. As I said, I found nothing about luminosity masking in C1.

The new LR Classic has both. Moreover, the color masks, as well as the luminosity masks, are also applicable to local adjustments, like the gradient, brush or radial filters, while, from what I see, C1 has only a global color masking feature.

When you make a new masked layer you can adjust every parameter on that, including exposure, brighness, contrast, white balance.. you just have to make sure you're using the sliders on the "local adjustments" tab (it has the icon of a brush)

I use MPEG Streamclip 1.2 to cut videos or remove the sound and it works with 4k videos recorded with a Lumix LX100 camera

I have 1.2.1. I can cut the original photojpeg clips. Had problems with h.264. But strange thing is that I tried it again, and it actually worked, it was just painfully slow. Strange, few days ago when I tried to open a clip like that I just got all sorts of error messages..

Used to use MPEG Streamclip for simple operations on video files but doesn't work with 4K clips.

Can you suggest some simple software to things like cutting the beginning and end of videos, deleting audio tracks, combining video and audio files...
I'm look for a really simple program.
In Adobe Premiere i can't even do things like deleting an audio track without recoding the video stream

You can get in: Content page > Approved image > Click here to view your portfolio on VideoBlocks

I only see videos as well

Try Capture One Pro, Lightroom feels like a toy compared to it. Especially the user interface.
Capture one is has a much more professional feel, good functioning, and quite costumizable interface.

Of course there is no one perfect solution, there some little things that are better in Lightroom. And it it always takes lot of effort to get used to a new RAW development program, and sometimes you just end up with very different looking images than before

RPI has been steadily going down since 2007, now hovering just above $1.

As a warning to anyone new, by the time you get up to a large portfolio it would have dropped again, so bear that in mind in your calculations. For me it has pretty much halved every 2 years in recent times.

I think that depreciation is pretty much in line with what SS accidentally gave away with some of their figures a while back. It turned out collection growth has been far outstripping payment/ market growth the last several years.

$1 per month? Wow, that's extremely high. People with really commercial portfolios used to report that kind of value around 2007. Nowadays $1 / year seems to be the more average norm

Overall quality on free sites is better than SS. SS have better quality images but you can't see them on the first pages, can't see them on the "new" search. Main problem with SS is - quantity defeated quality. Few of my clients already switched to free sites.
Very large design community on 99designs now downloads files from "free pik", year ago SS was their main source of images.

I just can't understand why SS gave up totally on quality control. Is it that important to have 150+ million images? Are buyers really looking at that number? Or is saving on the cost of proper reviewing that significant to them?

Some corkers here.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/60-completely-unusable-stock-photos?utm_term=.ll9EKVKK8#.io3Xb8bbP

Now we're talking! These are mostly unexplainable. (Actually once i had a photo of mine on presented on this site . And the photo has some sales, and even come across it in usage somewhere)