Just curious if anyone else has gotten this or something similar? I just got a sale notification from Pond 5 via e-mail though as it turned out, it wasn't really a new sale after all. Apparently, it relates to one of my videos that previously sold before. This one has sold three times in the past. Someone paid extra money to upgrade to another kind of license for it's usage. This particular license is called a 'Netflix Premium License.' I got $15.84 for it. Judging by the name, I assume the clip's going to be used on Netflix.

With my first four sales on P5, I'm well above the minimum payout level. Though what happens now? I guess the payment is not automatic like on SS. Do I have to notify P5 that I want my payment?

To my complete surprise, one of my posts was recently deleted on the forum over at the Dreamstime site. I was replying to a poster who had just recently joined DT and was asking how to get some sales and views. For the last few days, this person has had a total of one photo in their portfolio. And it's still currently one photo. My reply was as follows: "Adding more photos to your portfolio would be a good start."

Not long after that, I received an e-mail notification informing me that my post had been deleted. And possible reasons for deletion can be any of these things - "We delete duplicate posts, posts in other languages than English, spams or any post that may be considered as violation of the message board rules."

Obviously, my post was written in English, it was not a duplicate post or spam and did not break the rules which are outlined below:

https://www.dreamstime.com/thread_4521

All I was doing was offering helpful advice in that thread started by the newcomer. Logically, the only way to get sales is to have a decent sized portfolio containing quality images that are useful to clients. Having more than one photo in your port is certainly a step in the right direction if you do want sales.

These DT mods are really out of control. Some of them, especially the female mods, seem to be on a power trip.

By the way, I have had other posts of mine disappear from the DT forum in the past but I did not receive e-mail notifications about them.

As of today, I cannot log into Alamy. I have tried multiple times with no success. Is anyone else having this issue?

After months of uploading, it's finally happened. Ive just made my first video sale on Pond 5. I have heard from others that it can take a long time before you start seeing sales on Pond 5 and that is certainly true. I just hung in there and continued to upload, even though it didn't seem like anything was happening. Though I admit Ive only got a very small video port on there. I did have a few video sales through SS with an even smaller port but P5 seems particularly tough to gain any traction. Hopefully, more will come in the future as I expand my port.

Just now, Ive discovered that one of my videos on Pond 5 has been 'returned.' This is a video that had previously sold through SS. At first, I assumed that 'returned' meant 'rejected' on P5 though then I noticed there was a separate category for rejected content. So what does 'returned' mean within the context of P5 and how is it different to content that is rejected? Additionally, I could find no reason why it was returned.

For quite a while, I was wondering which frame rate was the most compatible with different international buyers' needs. Sometime back, I read that it's easier to convert 25fps to 30fps than the other way around. Plus I live in a PAL country. So it made sense to me to shoot stock footage at 25fps. And that's what Ive been doing so far until now.

However, recently an American video guy who works with stock footage a lot essentially tells me that what I read is wrong. According to him, it's a real nuisance when he gets hold of 25fps footage because it's hard to convert it to 30fps with acceptable results. Though I'm not too keen on adopting 30fps because I would also like to cater to all the PAL countries out there which outnumber the NTSC countries by a fair margin.

Ive read elsewhere that the cinema standard 24fps can be converted just as easily to 25fps and 30fps. Would everyone agree that this is true? If that's the case, I might shoot my stock footage at 24fps from now on.

Ive got yet another issue with Stocksubmitter...or perhaps with Pond 5...hard to say. So recently, I used Stocksubmitter to submit a small batch of editorial videos to various agencies. With most of the agencies, the videos are currently pending review. With Pond 5, I got that sign in catchup thing that I had to fill in. When that was completed, Stocksubmitter indicated that it was authorising the video batch for Pond 5. However, it's been authorising for an insanely long time (all day in fact.) It's never taken this long before.

I can see these videos on the Pond 5 website. They's stuck in the 'Needs Edits' category and they've been there for hours. My question is - can I close down Stocksubmitter or do I still need to have it open to allow these videos to go into the 'Pending Review' category?

I'm about to submit a property release for a drawing I did back in the 1990s. I do note that Getty will only accept release forms whose dates match the exif data on images. Of course this shouldn't be applicable to this particular submission since it's a drawing and not a photo taken with a digital camera. However, on the Getty property release, it says to include the shoot date under the photographer / filmmaker section. Should I put down the date that the drawing was made (in the early 90s) or the date when it was scanned (which would have been in the 2000s or later)? If I put down the date that I made the drawing, Ive got a feeling that I might get a rejection because it doesn't match the date of the scanning (when the file was created.) That would be ridiculous because I'm trying to be honest about when the artwork was created (when I did the drawing on paper) which would be the equivalent to the shoot date.

Ive just noticed something on Pond 5 when I search for my own videos. In many of my clips that have blue skies, I'm seeing heavy pixelation in the previews (when I hover the cursor over the video.) The blue sky is transformed into a series of blocks more or less. Same for underwater footage. Though when I click on the video and let it play within it's own page, it looks sort of decent. I first started noticing this issue with my GoPro videos and thought it was exclusive to them. I then searched for clips shot with my Panasonic G6 (which takes better quality video than the GoPro) and was surprised to see the same issue with them. Though oddly, other contributors' videos in search results look fine (even ones with blue skies.)

Just trying to work out why I'm getting this heavy pixelation with my clips on the Pond 5 previews. The same versions of the clips look fine on my monitor. I admit I am using the h264 codec but I wouldn't think it would produce that extreme of a problem.

The bitrates of my cameras are not super high but when I export a h264 video from them for stock, I try and get the bitrate as close as possible to the original.

Because the ESP site is so weird and confusing, I rarely spend much time on it and as a result, I don't know my way around it. Would anyone know how I can view the photos that I have uploaded and had accepted there?

Also, I'm assuming that you still can't edit your keywords and descriptions yourself? Who specifically would I contact to make these corrections for me?

VB has rejected a video of mine for 'poor post production.' The comments (presumably left by the reviewer) says that the footage is too short. What does post production quality have anything to do with the length of a video?? And I don't see any issues with the quality of the post production - the same clip was accepted by all the other stock sites that I submitted it to.

And I'm puzzled as to why it's considered too short. It's 10 seconds in length which is the same duration as some other clips that were previously accepted by VB. I can't see any minimum duration mentioned on the site's requirements for footage (only the maximum which is 3 minutes.)

Weird. I'll submit the video again and hope for the best.

Ive got a small bunch of videos at AS. And with some of the clips, the randomly generated preview thumbnails don't really show off what the videos are about. Is there some way to change them?