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« on: December 06, 2015, 02:40 »
November:
SS: 534$ (~1460 clips)
VB: 297$ (~1200 clips)
P5: 552$ (~1650 clips)
December: till now (same number of clips)
SS: 207$
VB: 66$
P5: 423$
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« on: December 02, 2015, 10:16 »
I am now thinking of adding a 4th site, any thoughts on one that would accept my content and have reasonable sales volume?.
Pond5 accepts almost everything and sales are now quite good, VB can be a bit finicky on what they accept but sales are also quite good, SS seems to accept everything but so far sales are dead last. I still have about 10,000 files to scrape off the drives and upload to all three but soon that will be done and then I am ready to start building up on site #4 in addition to shooting new content although so far the weather has been calm this fall/winter.
Thanks
Congratulations, very nice collection!! Be aware that you have sooo many similar clips in your collection, my advice is to do some cleaning there. It would be much easier for you to manage, upload, keyword less files. Regards
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« on: December 01, 2015, 12:08 »
Ok guys, need some fresh feedback on this.
Is H264 really still treated as a red-headed step child in this business, I mean really?
I'm in stock video for 3 years already and I've been uploading all my footage as H264 broadcast intermediate; and yes even the animations - especially the animations.
I mean, the H264 BI is so superior to PJPEG, particularly in terms of quality that it is not even funny. I've recently joined VideoBlocks and they clearly state that PJPEG is the most desireable codec for them while H264 is the least desireable one. And yet, I cannot bring myself to butcher, yes BUTCHER my files by re-rendering them to a clearly inferior format. Color banding is a particularly glaring problem - even at 92% (yes 92%) the banding in my subtle color shifting backgrounds is painful to watch while the H264 BI versions of the same there is no banding at all - frankly it looks like it wasn't compressed at all.
To clarify - so far I've been uploading all my stuff at H264 broadcast intermediate, that's 100% quality with 1 frame keyframes. Even the stuff I live shoot at lower bitrates get a CC treatment and are exported at BI standard which tremendously increases their quality. PJPEG even at maximum rates simply cannot compare, neither in detail, nor in artifacts and particularly not in terms of color definition (see banding).
So I'm asking you guys, what's the deal here? Should I degrade my existing footage just to serve some ancient ridiculous prejudice or stick to my guns? I know I shouldn't really care because I'm in it for the money and buyer beware and all that, but I mean, it's so * obvious the difference in quality! Even when I'm occasionally buying stock for my video projects I prefer the H264 because I've really explored the 2 formats and I know which one is clearly superior and ultimately less work in editing. So what should I do? Am I missing something?
I hate PJPEG. Months ago I took the decision to render all my new files into H264 because of the huge banding of clips with low lighting, both SS and P5 accepts H264. After few days VideoBlocks came to the game which refused my new H264 rendered files, so I went back to PJPEG. I hate PJPEG, it's huge in file size, bad in quality with low lighting clips. But I will stick currently to PJPEG because those strange people at VideoBlocks want it.
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« on: November 24, 2015, 05:03 »
Sometimes I buy video.. I prefer Pond5 for variety and price. The funny thing that I begin by searching on ShutterStock because their search engine is much better, then look at P5 for those clips, even more funny: I buy many of those clips at much cheaper prices on P5!!
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« on: November 19, 2015, 02:41 »
Alijaber:
If you don't mind sharing, could I ask you how much one gets for clips on FT?
Presumably there's an 4K/HD/SD price - are most sales at HD?
Cheers
I don't have any 4K clips. Looking at my sales there: almost half are HD, others are HD720, M, S Prices: HD, HD720, M, S : 75, 60, 30, 12 credits (dollars). You got 30%
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« on: November 18, 2015, 11:45 »
Hello,
I have just started with Fotolia because of the "Adobe thing" and I have uploaded some of my best footage in there.
The problem is that they keep rejecting lots of them for no reason. Even some animation backgrounds have been refused.
They say that the review team works separtely from the Fotolia team and they cannot explain the reasons that footage is rejected.
Many of these rejected files are selling a lot in websites like Shutterstock, Pond5 and VideoBlocks. No problem at all!
This is my first experience on Fotolia and I don't think I'll stay anylonger in there...
Anyone with same problem here?
cheers
for me their acceptance rate was high, but I didn't upload any content for several months now. Be aware that video wise income is really low, far behind SS, P5 or VB. I kept my port there to see if Adobe will boost video sales or not when Adobe Stock adopt video.
Not true. I regularly get $25 for an HD clip. That's slightly better than what I get from a standard SS sale ($20-$23)
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I meant the number of sales per month..
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« on: November 18, 2015, 09:48 »
Hello,
I have just started with Fotolia because of the "Adobe thing" and I have uploaded some of my best footage in there.
The problem is that they keep rejecting lots of them for no reason. Even some animation backgrounds have been refused.
They say that the review team works separtely from the Fotolia team and they cannot explain the reasons that footage is rejected.
Many of these rejected files are selling a lot in websites like Shutterstock, Pond5 and VideoBlocks. No problem at all!
This is my first experience on Fotolia and I don't think I'll stay anylonger in there...
Anyone with same problem here?
cheers
for me their acceptance rate was high, but I didn't upload any content for several months now. Be aware that video wise income is really low, far behind SS, P5 or VB. I kept my port there to see if Adobe will boost video sales or not when Adobe Stock adopt video.
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« on: November 18, 2015, 09:34 »
Sales that show up on a map aren't reported immediatley on your earnings page. There's a delay, I'd say about 15 minutes or so, for sale to show up as a thumbail on your earnings page and about an hour for a sale to be added to your total earnings.
Yes, that was my previous experience as well. I'm waiting for a footage sale to show up that appeared yesterday.
Yesterday, for the first time, 3 sales appeared on the map but not on my earning page.. I got 2 sales that appeared later on the map appears also in earning page... those 3 hidden sales are still there, maybe just a bug. This never happened before
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« on: November 16, 2015, 10:33 »
16 sales last month, 7 sales so far.. most of my sales are related clips from different angles (I suppose same buyer), so my sales can drop suddenly to 0.. I feel sometimes that it's only good luck.
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« on: November 14, 2015, 05:48 »
Dont worry, ISIS hates all normal muslims much more than the Europeans or the West. The Muslims are their first target because they see them all as heretics.
The attacks in Beirut and Europe are happening because they are really losing a lot of ground in Syria and Irak. The Russians have made a real difference with their attacks.
Completely true. I'm in Beirut by the way and I witnessed many suicide attacks last 2 years. It was European leaders fault to let Gulf states and Turkey gather and fund all those terrorists from all around the world in Syria to took down the Regime there.. It's not a refugee danger only, hundreds of French men (thousands from other European countries) fought in Syria and get back to France. They are there and well trained, sadly: these attacks can be repeated at any time, anywhere..
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« on: November 13, 2015, 15:56 »
I have 20-30$ (can't remember exactly) sticking there forever. I've deactivated all my files too
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« on: November 02, 2015, 14:03 »
This is just an indicator that video contributors are increasing
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« on: October 29, 2015, 02:07 »
Video wise Pond5 is the best
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« on: October 27, 2015, 03:56 »
Videoblocks is the only agency that do withdrawals on all my sales, all other agencies do withdrawals on US sales only... and that's make Videoblocks less attractive for me (33$ per sale instead of 48$)
Why videoblocks is different? (I am suspicious here)
Never had that before. Maybe I'm lucky.
It depends on your country
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« on: October 26, 2015, 05:52 »
Videoblocks is the only agency that do withdrawals on all my sales, all other agencies do withdrawals on US sales only... and that's make Videoblocks less attractive for me (33$ per sale instead of 48$)
Why videoblocks is different? (I am suspicious here)
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« on: October 25, 2015, 00:47 »
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« on: October 20, 2015, 08:18 »
60-70% of my sales are editorial, video only here
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« on: October 12, 2015, 02:13 »
P5 is still no 1 for me, I have some unique HD shots with good Pricing (200-500$) that sells good, SS will never beat that for me
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« on: October 10, 2015, 00:04 »
11 sales in September, only 1 sale in October, hope it will get better in the rest of month
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« on: October 07, 2015, 01:42 »
Without editorial content Fotolia/Adobe will never be no 1
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« on: August 25, 2015, 10:40 »
2 sales in August, 8 in July with my 1000 clips
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« on: July 16, 2015, 10:35 »
For those interested, my payment issues still not resolved and July's payment carried over to August (yet again).
.. the same story here
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« on: July 11, 2015, 01:08 »
on VideoBlocks I have now completed the W-8BEN form several times and after weeks of pending they notify me that there is a problem with only a very vague indication of what exactly is the problem. My monthly payments are now delayed for several months.
the same case here
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« on: May 29, 2015, 17:05 »
From what I see about 1/3 have a latte as their focus, 1/3 have a latte featured or incidental to the image, and another 1/3 don't have a latte in the image. For a search claiming to be about relevance all the images on the first page (out of 100,000 images with that keyword) should have a latte as the focus. The popular search is much more relevant for that keyword.
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Aha, The relevant is not relevant at all!!
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