Oh, I wish that was MY video, but it isn't  - great inspiration though.

Regarding hyperlapses, like some of the shots in that video, you don't need a tripod for those - only if you absolutely want lots of motion blur. If you can live with little to no motion blur it is much easier to shoot hyperlapses handheld. However, the post-processing is what really takes time. You really have to use After Effects and Warp Stabilizer or it will be a total shaky mess - tripod or not. Only if you have a long rail or shoot from a boat/train/car will you avoid this.

This post-processing takes hours so I would start with static timelapses from a tripod if you haven't done it before. No need for stabilizing for hours after...

When I search for clips in Chrome, no marketplace items come up and there is no option to display them. It looks entirely different on Safari - both logged out. In Safari I get the option to hide membership clips.

Surely this can't be good for non-membership items.

How does it look for you?

It did work very well for Envato (music side) with increased earnings for everyone so it might not be all that bad.

Hopefully there isn't one... But who knows.

Anyway, iStock Audio suffered massive contributor drop-offs and the ones who stayed pretty much stopped uploading because of the ridiculous new terms. $1.50 royalties... That's less than 10% of what you would get at Envato, or about 5% of what many people are getting at P5. And those two sites sell A LOT of licenses. Just doesn't make sense to stay at iStock Audio.

Hopefully Getty realized this and won't kill it off right away...

Quite incredible yeah and must have been a couple of years of shooting. Perfect light all the time.

I especially like the rising drone time-lapses and while the construction stuff is really really cool, I find it a bit distracting with all the crossfading. No other way to do it though I suppose.

All in all, probably the best time-lapse video out there.

I've been there shooting time-lapses myself but only 4 days... I would love to be able to spend a year catching all the best light and locations... Not good time-lapse scenery where I live.

Why are contributors moaning so much about P5 membership when SS via Bigstock and VB are doing exactly the same? Makes no sense to point the finger just at P5.

Because VB started out like that and you could choose not to upload there but P5 has been the top solid earner for lots of people for many years which has now changed.

I don't think many people care about Bigstock's video section... It looks quite ridiculous.

With that kind of content you can easily double your HD prices.

Just sold a static HD clip of grass for $150. Probably one of the easiest clips in the world to replicate unless you live in the desert. Buyers will pay if they find what they need.

The article is good but yes, seems a bit ironic since P5 themselves slashed prices on so many clips.

I get more than 10 times more views on Fotolia than Pond5. Also more sales. But it makes sense since their library is so much smaller.

there is absolutely no reason to render out your final video in prores because the extra information that prores is capable of storing simply isn't there to start with

That's only true if you upload the footage ungraded/unedited. If you add for example a vignette it's still better to work in 16-bit and export a 10-bit ProRes HQ even if you shot it on a GH4.

It makes even more of a difference if you shoot in 4k and recompose and downsize to HD. There is extra information there even from the 8-bit GH4 clip to make use of the ProRes if you go from 4k to HD.

Thank you, I'm french that's why sometimes I struggle with english financial terms. But if it's 50 and 30%, I should have more than 56$ in my balance

56.4/188 = 30%. Maybe they just don't show the cents and only whole dollar amounts?

Looks quite soft yes. Either due to slight misfocus or the quality of the lens. Do all photos look like this? What is wide open on this lens?

Also, noise reduction = blurring/loss of detail (roughly speaking). If you're shooting stuff like this make sure ISO is always at its lowest, aperture at its sweet spot (you'll have to figure that out) and focus stacking if necessary.

To further lower noise it is usually best to expose to the right, meaning overexpose a bit but not too much so you blow the highlights. Noise likes to live in the shadows so it usually looks better to slightly overexpose and bring highlights down than bring shadows up. As long as they're not blown out.

I think NASA images are allowed, just as long as you mention the origin.

Yes, but you can't just sell them as they are. You have to make something new with fairly substantial changes. You have to use them as an element.