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« on: October 17, 2019, 10:12 »
I got another animation rejected for
Interlacing: Clip exhibits noticeable interlacing issues.
I have no idea what this is an how it applies to animated videos done in after effects.
Would anyone be able to explain to me what this is, so I can avoid this in future? I've looked online and there isn't much in regards to animation.
Can you include a frame at 100% so we can see?
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« on: October 17, 2019, 09:04 »
Also, The price for customers is in GBP and I get paid in USD without the current exchange rate being applied. (maybe I'm missing something)
for example on the home page of Alamy
'Pricing from 9.99'
but a recent sale in my dashboard is
'Vector $ 9.99'
If you are in the UK, you see prices in GP, as with other agencies.
Buyers outwith the UK see prices in their own currencies. Also prices in other countries vary, so they're not necessarily the equivalent of the prices you see.
That can be the same with physical goods in different countries. E.g. in India, many international products were much cheaper than they are here (UK).
If you're not a buyer, you'll see a much larger price than most buyers see, as most buyers have negotiated a discount, often a hefty discount.
As well as that, apparently they have regular pricing A/B type tests.
So you very seldom, if ever, will see sales of the value you might expect from the file page. That's the same at e.g. Getty.
I understand that other countries should see a different currency. I used a VPN in the past to test what you are saying. I remember it always being in GBP with various countries. Without a VPN. I'm in Canada and I'm seeing GBP pricing. Really doesn't matter to me too much because the number of sales are so low. It's not worth the time.
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« on: October 17, 2019, 08:49 »
I find that Alamy is too difficult to submit content and that there are little sales anyway for the effort it take. I'm willing to put in the effort if I could see some traction.
Also, The price for customers is in GBP and I get paid in USD without the current exchange rate being applied. (maybe I'm missing something)
for example on the home page of Alamy
'Pricing from 9.99'
but a recent sale in my dashboard is
'Vector $ 9.99'
I would rather get paid in GBP and have paypal do the exchange conversion
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« on: October 16, 2019, 14:59 »
I know, but the point is, I don't want to adjust and complicate my workflow just for them. So I've stopped uploading vectors for the time being.
I get it. I hate changing my workflow too. (it seems like it's almost daily) Can I offer you a quote from Darwin?
"It is not the most intellectual or the strongest of species that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able to adapt to and adjust best to the changing environment in which it finds itself." Charles Darwin
Darwin was right about that, but spending my precious time creating new stuff that OTHER agencies will accept instead of wasting it on Shutterstock is a form of survival too 
So true. I think it applies to shutterstock as a company too. Lots of stock agencies have come and gone 
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« on: October 16, 2019, 10:43 »
I cannot understand it, if the media says that the sanctions are against the government of Nicolas Maduro and they repeat it again and over again. This have been also said by Senator Marco Rubio and the same president of the United States of America Donald Trump. So why Adobe says that ordinary citizens and businesses are also sanctioned, I don't understand.
While the Right (mostly far-right) repeats the word "socialism" over and over again. Those same people don't realize(or maybe they do) they are contributing to the ongoing threat of increasing Fascism in the US. These are the same type of companies and people that supported Hitler. Either from fear, ignorance, or willful intent.
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« on: October 16, 2019, 10:08 »
I know, but the point is, I don't want to adjust and complicate my workflow just for them. So I've stopped uploading vectors for the time being.
I get it. I hate changing my workflow too. (it seems like it's almost daily) Can I offer you a quote from Darwin? "It is not the most intellectual or the strongest of species that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able to adapt to and adjust best to the changing environment in which it finds itself." Charles Darwin
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« on: October 16, 2019, 08:52 »
Not only have they gone overboard with their similars policy (if I upload just 3 variations on an image, each with a different symbol, two of them get rejected even though the concept is clearly different), they have also killed vector uploading with their insane 4 MP minimum for vectors. And for what? They're vectors! Since we can no longer upload accompanying JPEGs (which I used for keywords and description) the upload process has become a chore again.
You can embed the keywords and descriptions in Illustrator files and eps10 and files using exiftools https://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
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« on: October 16, 2019, 08:45 »
1000% agree! I get rejected stuff for stupid 'similar content'. These fools are losing money, I have best selling vector christmas backgrounds which I upload in various format (square, 4/3, wide, portrait etc...) and they reject it. They used to accept it before with no problem. Well fxxx them they will sell on AS and elsewhere.
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I agree that the similar policy is not giving the customers that can't create vectors on their own or don't have time to create them options.
The policy is a shutterstock policy and you can't blame the reviewers for following policies.
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« on: October 15, 2019, 09:21 »
Idiocity is not ...transferable! 
Reviewers are doing what they are payed and ordered to do.
Perhaps some of them are kind more or alot aggressive but again.
They follow orders and move within boundaries of company's policy.
Just an opinion. Maybe wrong 
I agree with George_
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« on: October 14, 2019, 14:13 »
yes. as long as the two are signed on the same day as each other. That is the whole point of having a witness seeing the property owner sign the release.
Same goes for model releases.
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« on: October 14, 2019, 04:11 »
Property owner signing date and witness signing date need to match. The other dates don't matter.
Make sure to include a photo of the drawing in the property release.
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« on: October 14, 2019, 02:35 »
I find the new similars policy a bit heavy handed and that lots of good content is being refused.
This will only weaken shutterstocks position as adobe will eventually over take them as the top stock agency.
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« on: October 13, 2019, 16:47 »
Sorry this happened to you @alexandersr and any other photographers/artists in your country. Did any other US based agencies send you a letter as well? Like Shutterstock?
This type of bullying from the US president will only hurt the US citizens and US companies in the long run. Many countries and companies will look elsewhere for a more stable business partner and the US will lose it's financial dominance in the world because of actions like these.
I think 80% of Adobe's and shutterstock's content comes for Russia.(Anyone please let me know if this percent is wrong) I wonder if any future sanctions on Russia and it's citizens would cut the size of those agencies catalogs.
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« on: October 13, 2019, 06:51 »
Take the time to learn ffmpeg. https://ffmpeg.org/ Bit of a learning curve if you aren't use to the commandline in the terminal. It works well for what you need and more. You can install brew install to install ffmpeg easily on a mac. https://brew.sh/once brew install is installed you can just use the command brew install ffmpeg
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