|
MicrostockGroup Sponsors
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Messages - StockStudio
51
« on: April 17, 2018, 16:10 »
AfterCodecs for Windows lets you encode ProRes on a Windows machine. A free trial version is available and lets you render video for up to 500 frames.
And, who cares about video on Getty? Not worth the hassle. 
Are you working with in on Adobe Media Encoder? how does it work? And regarding Getty- The are indeed not my best selling agancy - but for a few hundreds of $ per month I still think they are worth the hassle...
52
« on: April 17, 2018, 14:17 »
Well, after the 2018 update to the Adobe CC - Quicktime PhotoJPEG support is GONE.
Now, this wasen't such a great codec - BUT, it was the only codec all the video selling agencies supported.
for someone who uploads to SS, P5, AS, Istock, VB - having to encode all files only once is mission critical.
Now, DNxHR is a much much better codec, but is not supported on SS and Getty.
H.264 is not supported in DCI 4K on Getty (I shoot all my video in DCI 4K)
I guess ProRes will be the best choice - but I haven't found a way to encode ProRes on a windows machine (anyone??)
Any thoughts will be welcome!
53
« on: March 25, 2018, 10:22 »
Reached Emerald status a few weeks ago and wondering whether I should increases prices from the basic 1 credit to 2 credits. I'm undecided - on the one hand I'd like to try for higher income, but on the other hand I don't want to destroy sales.
Do any other Emeralds have experience they'd like to share?
In my personal account I max out my prices. You may see a decline in credits based sales but the cut would need to be 50% or greater for the change not to be in your favor.
It's important to note that the price can only be increased on files that have been selling in the past 6 months. Any "unsold" files remain at the minimum so that will increase their chance of sales.
If you want to max out your prices, shoot me an email and I'll take care of it for you. [email protected]
Congratulations on reaching the milestone!
-Mat
What about us - the video contributors? If they won't give us different ranking system my next rank up would be about 16 years from now.
54
« on: February 16, 2018, 06:14 »
Both Fotolia and Shutterstock rejected a batch I shot of military aircraft and helicopters due to intellectual property infringement. I have quite a few videos like these which are selling well from last year. Anyone had their pictures / videos rejected too for this reason?
Obviously this is absurd... So from now on nobody will be able to buy images of aircrafts for commercial use?
55
« on: December 20, 2017, 07:57 »
Finally, no more PJPEG!
ProRes is what you're looking for.
If I could encode ProRes on my PC - I would do it a long time ago...
56
« on: December 20, 2017, 05:52 »
In the new Adobe CC, they announced that support of legacy QuickTime codecs will be discontinued in the upcoming version.
"Support for import/export of legacy 32-bit QuickTime media will be discontinued in a future version of Premiere Pro. Transcode to a non-legacy format to continue using the media in Premiere Pro after legacy support has ended."
now, the most common codec in all agencies is the very old QuickTime PhotoJPEG.
We need a new codec that will be accepted across the board, since encoding to different codec for each site will be very time consuming...
Can someone map the codecs accepted in each agancy today?
57
« on: October 20, 2017, 14:15 »
Hi,
is anybody uploading their videos or photos to overflightstock.com agency?
If yes, what is the experience and general impression?
If no. Why no?
For some reason it seems good to me, maybe because videos are priced nicely (high), commission is 50%, it is well organised, and response from the guy operating the agency is really fast. Thing i don't like is that the site has no contributor backend, which means there is no contributor login, or any kind of control of your videos, or financial stuff.
Thank you!
Well, I uploaded a nice collection of my aerial footage there. They guy who operates the site is indeed very responsive and nice. So far (over 6 months I think) - not a single sale. And I don't have any clue how many views or preview downloads my clips had since there is no real contributor portal there...
58
« on: October 18, 2017, 04:45 »
Too many sales = conspiracy.
Bad sales = conspiracy.
Even sales = conspiracy.
Jokes aside, I hope your sales won't get refunded. These rare things do happen. A single commercial might need 50 stock clips, and maybe they liked your style. Buying 100 4k clips is peanuts compared to an advertising budget.
Well, it's always an option. But what are the chances of a commercial needing footage of Israeli military Jets 
59
« on: October 18, 2017, 04:29 »
Well... Just updating that a few thousends of $$ and days later - the crazy purchases has stopped, and no official response or mail from Fotolia.
One concern remains - that whoever did it might upload these clips as his own and start making money from my footage.
But on the other had - all that was bought was far from being my best-sellers...
60
« on: October 16, 2017, 08:51 »
It won't stop....!
Every half hour or so another $63...
How doesn't the people at FT/AS notice anything??
61
« on: October 16, 2017, 08:18 »
Video people I talk with are also experiencing insane sales at FOT/AS these past few days. Myself included. In the past 3 days alone I had 12 4K sales.
After the VB/SB refund party some went through last week, I'm fearful of massive returns soon.
Maybe @MatHayward can look into this?
*, that would suck big time!!! It's halfway through the month and it's BME already 😎
62
« on: October 16, 2017, 04:31 »
In the past few days, someone is buying my clips like crazy in Fotolia. I've had sales spike before, but this Something really unusual. All purchases are 4K, all kids of subjects...
Now the question is whether to report this to Fotolia and let them know, and ask them to look into it. It is not my fault if someone is hacking their agency... But someone else might ask for a refund eventually....
I might lose thousands of dollars on the other hand 🙄
Has anyone had something like this before???
63
« on: October 13, 2017, 18:43 »
This issue was asked before, but it might have changed:
FT had the ranking system the same for both images and video (obviously stupid since selling hundreds of videos to rank up takes much longer than images)
I remember having more than 200 videos left to rank up, but today I suddenly saw I ranked up... (now it says I need to sell only 9,725 videos more for the next rank - hooray!!)
Could it be that they changed something? Maybe after all they rank up video contributors on a different scale?
64
« on: October 05, 2017, 03:06 »
As a video contributor AND a production company owner - I can see both sides. In the world of video we find ourselves searching for a specific subject in all the agencies with poor results.
A search for "Business woman" yields 222,817 results on Shutterstock, while looking for a hot, relevant issue like "Islamic terror" gives you just over 1,500 clips, many of them irrelevant, and 70% editorial.
What I see as the challenge is finding these places where demand is high and supply is low (in the video market these places still exist I believe)
What I need as a contributor is a search tool that finds the gaps between high volume searches and low volume sales, or something like that...
65
« on: September 21, 2017, 05:57 »
Well, I sold one 4K video for $0.90, one for $14 and one for $60. What the heck is that??
Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk
$74.90
Lol... Just wanted to know how can there be such a huge difference in the royalties for the same type of video... Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk
66
« on: September 21, 2017, 03:20 »
Related question: assuming we are not exclusive in any agency, can we sell our videos and photos on Etsy? Does anyone do it here?
Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk
67
« on: September 21, 2017, 00:43 »
Well, I sold one 4K video for $0.90, one for $14 and one for $60. What the heck is that??
Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk
68
« on: August 31, 2017, 08:38 »
images also fear the same thing. But I still prefer being non-exclusive any day of the week.
Just makes you wonder how much money people were making there a few years back if they chose to be exclusive in such a bad agency... 
69
« on: August 31, 2017, 04:44 »
I take it that you are non-exclusive?
Basically if your non-exclusive then all your clips are on getty but only a select number of people can view it. In a nut shell - they are available through Premium Access where they see for pennies. There is nothing you can do to stop this except to delete your port - but this will be off istock too.
If your exclusive then your clips should be in the main collection (ie expensive clips) but also Premium Access. Lots of exclusives are finding that there main sales are drying up because of Premium Access.
Premium access is where Getty sells a membership to the big buyers for huge discounts. We don't see any money of the membership fee.
It's a pretty sorry affair really
OK. Thank you for the thorough expenation! indeed seems like a messed-up system for selling content...
70
« on: August 31, 2017, 03:59 »
So - it might come out as a stupid question - but I truly do not understand something very fundamental: As far as video goes - What's the difference between iStock and Getty??
If getty is supposed to be the "Premium" agancy, how come when I search for clips with the same keywords like my clips in iStock, find clips that are much much lower quality selling for absurd prices ($575 for this??: http://www.gettyimages.com/license/516315545) but my clips do not show up? What am I missing here???
71
« on: August 17, 2017, 05:41 »
So, I was wondering about this:
When a potential buyer searches for a photo/video in a stock agancy,
they abvously can filter the search result in three main ways:
Relevant/best match - I'll get there in a second
Popular - number of sales and/or views?
New - date of upload
Now where's popular and new are abvious - what does the "relevant" or "best match" mean?
Is it a mix of good title and keywords? Does it take sales into consideration?
Does it favor older/newer items?
What do you think?
Has anyone experimented with this?
72
« on: August 11, 2017, 05:54 »
They probably just scraped through, as the source quality was so high (presuming it was well shot and well lit)... but even so, it's still going to be noticeable. Why not pump it up to 8K and sell it at a premium?!
I shoot most of my stuff with Sony FS7 at DCI 4K (4096x2160). I had a few batches with clips that I shot in slow motion at a 150 fps in HD. Because of the setup I have in media encoder these clips were automatically converted to 4K. I forgot about it, only to find out they got accepted (all of them) to all the sites. (including the scrutinizing SS) They all looked much better than a GH4 4k clips, not to mention crappy looking GoPro 4K footage. So - I think up-res is wrong in terms of being honest with buyers - but if the camera is good - the technical quality will not stop anyone.
73
« on: July 31, 2017, 11:26 »
Hi,
you may want to try my free tool: http://www.keyword.io/tool/stock-photo-research which shows you views&sales stats based on keywords on 30+ million photos, videos and vector graphics across multiple agencies.
No # of searches though, sorry.
Thanks. I'm familiar with this tool - I find it very useful for keywords, less for research.
74
« on: July 28, 2017, 12:19 »
It's not spot on topic - but anyway:
have anyone of you ever tried to play around with your prices on P5 in order to experiment
on how pricing effects sales?
I know for myself that i price my clips relatively high compared to other when I search a subject I shot.
When I have something very special obviously I price it higher, but I never price 4K less than $150. And I get many 4K sales on P5.
When a potential buyer is browsing similar clips, no debout he will choose the cheaper one when quality is identical as far as he is concerned.
I always wonder what will happen if I mark down my prices 20%. maybe I'll see a 30% increase in sales??
75
« on: July 27, 2017, 02:14 »
As contributors, what are the tools at our disposal for doing market research? i.e. - statistics of how many times content was searched in agancies, popularity of images or clips (with view and download count) and so on. Are there any tools out there like the sales tools (StockAgent, Microstockr) but for research? (Not keyword research) And what information is shared by the sites? Thanks
|
Sponsors
Microstock Poll Results
Sponsors
|
Show Posts
