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« on: July 23, 2017, 09:09 »
I see here that most people are saying iStock\Getty are not worth the time when it comes to video.
Weather it be the low commissions and the 4K pricing, or the horrible upload process.
I have about 400 clips there (small part of my protfolio)- making a little money here and there.
Just wondering if it's worth the time uploading the rest of my portfolio when I have the time (between shooting periods)
I mean - I already shot the clips. Why not put them for sale on another platform?
I'd like to hear some people's experiences from the past months regarding video sales there.
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« on: July 23, 2017, 08:31 »
I thought they might like it natural but I am not sure because they seem to buy my over the top edited images which I don't like. I always think that something like that doesn't exist in nature. Not that I want to leave images flat and boring but not that saturated.
You've got to assess the probabilities of the buyer base. Will you sell more to buyers who want fully "pay-n-go" clips or to buyers who want flat, more editable clips? I can't say because all of my clips (other than my animations) are graded. The only way to tell would be to have another mirrored set of ungraded clips and compare sales. But that is not practical. So I choose to assume that most buyers want a finished clip and do not want to have to worry about another POST Processing step. But that's just my hypothesis. There are others in here with far greater video experience than me.
I actually tried once (over a year ago) with a set of 70 clips on Pond5- had one set uploaded with ungraded S-log3 footage. No sales. The graded set sold many clips since. I guess it answers the question...
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« on: July 23, 2017, 07:57 »
I have just had my first video accepted. Can someone please tell me if I should edit videos like an image? Should I leave saturation as it is out of camera or do customers like videos with vibrant colours? I didn't edit this video. I only trimmed it and compared to my images it looks kind of flat and boring.
I usually grade my clips to look good, but never over saturated. There are no tricks in stock video as far as I know - if the video is well lit, well composed and most important - the subject matter is interesting and has value for clients - it will sell.
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« on: July 19, 2017, 13:14 »
Just got some videos of F-35 aircraft rejected due to intellectual property issues.
After I requested explination SS reps told me they treat all national symbols as proteced elements, hence the national air force (IAF) signs on the plane wings are what caused the rejection.
I recently consulted an IP lawyer who specifically told me that all national symbols are Creative Commons.
I know for a fact that the american Eagle, or the Israeli star of david are not, and will never be, protected.
how should I deal with this?
They are abviously wrong...
Give up. Why fight them? Even if you win you make like a few $.25 subs? Just move on -Do more work that will make you more money than these images anyway...
I disagree.
Each of these videos is quite hard to come by, especially as commercial ones. They sell for $25-$60 each (my share) for every sale. I had rare access to an air force base with a big telephoto lens. These videos could make me hundreds of $$ in the coming months/years.
Right or wrong, it is the agency's rules. Its like alamy requires model releases if a finger is in a photo even though the person is not recognizable.....which is the purpose of a model release. So i would not spend a lot of time on this unless you think a few emails will get them to change their minds.
in the case of ShutterStock I would say the best bet is to keep resubmitting until a dumb reviewer lets them in...  (I had 42 clips rejected from that batch - now i'm down to these 4 after resubmitting.
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« on: July 19, 2017, 09:20 »
Just got some videos of F-35 aircraft rejected due to intellectual property issues.
After I requested explination SS reps told me they treat all national symbols as proteced elements, hence the national air force (IAF) signs on the plane wings are what caused the rejection.
I recently consulted an IP lawyer who specifically told me that all national symbols are Creative Commons.
I know for a fact that the american Eagle, or the Israeli star of david are not, and will never be, protected.
how should I deal with this?
They are abviously wrong...
The F35 Jet's design is the intellectual property of Lockheed Martin, therefore, there may be copyrighting issues. If you really can't upload it as a commercial video, then you can still upload it as an editorial video.
This is not the case - since other clips of these jets were accepted - where you can't see the IAF logo.(which BTW is a plain star of david in a circle)
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« on: July 19, 2017, 09:18 »
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« on: July 19, 2017, 09:14 »
how should I deal with this?
Any value as editorials?
Well, yes. Since they are videos of military fighters - they could sell as editorial. But there are some (not many) editorial clips of these jets. I wanted to have the only good quality commercial clips out there. And then came the infamous SS reviewers... 
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« on: July 19, 2017, 08:55 »
Just got some videos of F-35 aircraft rejected due to intellectual property issues.
After I requested explination SS reps told me they treat all national symbols as proteced elements, hence the national air force (IAF) signs on the plane wings are what caused the rejection.
I recently consulted an IP lawyer who specifically told me that all national symbols are Creative Commons.
I know for a fact that the american Eagle, or the Israeli star of david are not, and will never be, protected.
how should I deal with this?
They are abviously wrong...
Give up. Why fight them? Even if you win you make like a few $.25 subs? Just move on -Do more work that will make you more money than these images anyway...
I disagree. Each of these videos is quite hard to come by, especially as commercial ones. They sell for $25-$60 each (my share) for every sale. I had rare access to an air force base with a big telephoto lens. These videos could make me hundreds of $$ in the coming months/years.
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« on: July 19, 2017, 08:45 »
Just got some videos of F-35 aircraft rejected due to intellectual property issues.
After I requested explination SS reps told me they treat all national symbols as proteced elements, hence the national air force (IAF) signs on the plane wings are what caused the rejection.
I recently consulted an IP lawyer who specifically told me that all national symbols are Creative Commons.
I know for a fact that the american Eagle, or the Israeli star of david are not, and will never be, protected.
how should I deal with this?
They are abviously wrong...
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« on: July 14, 2017, 03:58 »
Hi.
Just wanted to know how many of you are putting your footage into collections, and does it improve your sales?
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« on: July 10, 2017, 16:05 »
Let them make some money. I don't want them to go out of business. Without non-member $79 sales they keep $30 out of it, it's like they are volunteering for us for no reason. I don't care how much they sell for those non-member sales. They give us $49 (minus $1+ fee) for HD video and that's much more than any other sites.
The fuss is not about how much they make, but about the fact that they lie about it. That's all.
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« on: July 10, 2017, 15:40 »
You just didn't know isn't transparency. I already knew and have no problem about it whatsoever.
Congrats!
I don't have a problem with them taking $30. But they try to hide it. That's the non-transparent part. You knowing about it doesn't make a difference...
This is what it says in their contributor agreement:
"For each Member that purchases the Content, we will pay you the amount that such Member paid us for such Content, less only third-party fees incurred by us for such transaction"
So far so good, because someone that has to pay $79 is not a member.
"You acknowledge and agree that we may charge a membership fee to gain access to the Platform and such a fee is not considered Revenue"
Wait now... If the buyer is charged a TEMPORARY membership fee, they must be considered a member, yes? Membership. Member.
The thing here is that the "membership fee" doesn't give the buyer ANYTHING else but the right to buy that one clip. And for a non-member the price next to the clips clearly says "$79". Only later do they claim the price is still only $49 but they charge a "temporary membership fee" which is complete nonsense of course since you don't get anything for that fee.
Dong it this way you can just set the price to $1, pay out $1, but charge a "temporary membership fee" of $48 that you see if you add to cart.
They can call it a "mouse click fee" or whatever they want, but as long as you only get the right to buy that one clip it effectively acts as that clip's total price. The price is $79.
They do their best to hide the $30 fee from contributors so they can claim 100% royalties, which is not true.
It's just a shady way of adding $30 while still claiming 100% on everything. That's that.
True. what if many (few dozens?) of contributors write them a letter about this matter? You think they might consider either to change the agreement or change the "fee"?
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« on: July 09, 2017, 14:09 »
Since March, I've uploaded videos for Motion Elements. I uploaded more than 200 videos, but unfortunately I have a lot of viewing until now, but I do not have sales. Please if someone has more experience to share an opinion about this site. Please see my portfolio in ME :
http://www.motionelements.com/artists/stefankutsarov
. Please give me advice, maybe the price are too high or such a type of videos is not looking for now .... Thanks in advance.
Iv'e been there for the past 6 months or so with well over 2,000 clips. nada.
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« on: July 07, 2017, 16:30 »
I have never experienced a $79 purchase.
I have never experienced a 4k sale (I do get the occasional one elsewhere)
I have always sold 2 files per month for two years, every single month. Same when I had 60 files and now with over 2.000
My best month was the first one: 4 sales with about 30 files on, sort of welcome aboard pack
I have never sold one file more than once (opposite to other agencies, where sales tend to concentrate on best sellers)
The files I sell at VB are always the worst ones, the ones I am ashamed of, or uploaded by mistake
Very very strange place, if you ask me
I had only 1 4K purchase over the last 2 years. Even though I must say that it doesn't happen too often in SS or P5 as well... But VB is becoming a good selling agency for me, with almost 80% of the leading SS, so no complains here... But it's definitely not smelling good.
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« on: July 07, 2017, 04:13 »
I'd say 30, but I try to max it where possible.
Ok. I've heard before that too many keywords are not good for the search engines at the sites...
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« on: July 07, 2017, 03:49 »
I partly agree. Yes majority of photos sell by the most basic keywords, after all, buyers are from all over the world and they as well might not know the English that well.
But there are specific words for specific shots that a buyer might be looking for and I just didn't come across them in an everyday life and there are some that just don't click to me at that moment.
One example would be one of my better selling receptionist shots where I just didn't ever hear about the term "concierge"(I know, it's not English but serves the point), yet that is the 80% of keyword searches for that file.
After all it's faster to click-out the unwanted ones than type in all from scratch even with autofill.
And what's the average number of keyrods you end up with? 5? 15? 25?
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« on: July 05, 2017, 15:56 »
Wanted to ask people here - what is your favorite keywording tool?
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« on: July 03, 2017, 07:16 »
Just took a look at the collections featured on P5 home page.
Must say I was somewhat dissapointed to find that a very big part of these featured clips were from the same big players...
Hotelfoxtrot, AILAIMAGES, SPOTMATIK... all have a very large representation in these small collections.
No debut about it - these companies produce some great looking and high quality clips - but with so many smaller contributors out these producing clips which are as good as any other - one must ask why??
Why promote the bigger players with huge portfolios instead of the smaller contributors?
I might just email Pond5 to hear what they have to say about this...
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« on: July 01, 2017, 08:12 »
Videoblocks not reporting sales... Version 4.2.2 Android 7.1.1
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« on: July 01, 2017, 08:07 »
Started very good, Shutterstock was crazy (finished BME there) - the rest - so so. then slowed down for the second half A single day with $300 sales in fotolia made it reach my average+. Guess the slow summer is here. Time to shoot stuff!!
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« on: June 27, 2017, 08:06 »
Funny.
As a video contrubutor to sit and watch your disscusion about backup...
Each second of my FS7 4K footage is ~400mb.
I have over 3,000 clips (avarage 30 second per clip).
All in original MXF + delivery PhotoJPEG.
I must admit I thought I found the solution with Amazon Cloud Drive - $60 per year with unlimited storage.
And a week ago Amazon cancalled it. (At least the "unlimited" part of it...)
Guess i'll keep buying those hard drives for now.
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« on: June 27, 2017, 06:09 »
The title says it all. I'll be happy to hear some insights
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« on: June 26, 2017, 22:42 »
I get the occasional sale on Dreamstime, Motion Elements and 123RF, but hardly worth the effort. Combined, they probably make me 1/5th of what I make on Shutterstock.
People will get the pitchforks and torches out for me saying this, but I make most of my money from VideoHive. However, the majority of my content is motion graphics (and some decent selling AE projects), which sell very well there. Regular stock footage doesn't do as well to be fair. And there's a crazy wait time of about four months for review, but it's coming down gradually. I'd say three months is more likely for anyone uploading now.
But yeah, if you have motion graphics stuff, then I'd definitely give it a try (the review queue is a week or two for those). If you have just regular footage, then it's up to you.
Thanks for the input. My portfolio is 95% footage and 5% photos. From what I understand the prices at Videohive are very low, so I will not undermine my own portfolio (I wonder what will the guys at Dissolve think about that...) There was some talk here about manual pricing coming soon to videohive - that might be the feature I was waiting for to jump in.
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« on: June 26, 2017, 13:24 »
I'm trying to find other places to sell my clips besides the known agencies. 80-90% of my sales are from SS, P5, FT, VB. Each month in different order. But it seems that all the other sites - Depositphotos, Dreamstime, MotionElements, 123RF, etc - the videos just don't sell... I'll be more then happy to hear otherwise from someone here.
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« on: June 25, 2017, 08:11 »
For the past few days there were several times where the site was down.
(including now)
Is that so - or is the problem on my side?
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