Hi! I use native always. Normally render in 8K. Sometimes it takes 3 to 4 days to render 15-20sec.
 I tried upscale but image seems a little fuzzy specially when projected.
 
I don't know if this works for you but last year i made this workaround:
I had a 2d/3d project with 20K size for an Arena/stadium show.  I split screen in 5 4k sides (kind of inverted cube frontal perspective) and render. Afterwards i stitch it one by one in premiere and render final. quality was 4:4:4 and it was faster.

Josephine you may think that 10 cents its huge for you but probably if you receive just 1 cent your argument was pretty diferent. I know a lot about poor countries since i lived in Guinea during colera in 2014 which is one of the poorest countries in the world. I do think your behaviour among other colleages here who are trying to struggle in such hard times does not justify your needs.

Now the ironic part: i invest time and money of my own to shoot jungle villages and even support them by buying a solar pannel to a clinic in Sarabanka (jungle village between Senegal and Guinea) where the mortality rate of mothers that give birth is roughly 80%.
I spent more than 8000� and I  was hopping to repeat the experience  by selling some footage/shots but with 10 cents would take years and years. In this sense i am kind of glad that i shift/quit SS some years ago and i bet in other agencies too.

Probably, because i sell in other places with better revenue i will repeat the experience and help other villages too.
Maybe if you sell in other places than SS you can help you but also others around you. Don't you think? ;-)

       
 

I think he means big thinkers.
i can point some names towards that thinking but you actually have to read a lot. Probably you are more a visual person like i am. To save you time maybe you read the new book from  Slavoj Zizek called "Pandemic! : COVID-19 Shakes the World"  where he talks about global barbarism or Yanis Varoufakis with "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future".

you can also follow both this guys in youtube. zizek have its own channel and varoufakis appear in Dim25 channel.

   

You got microstock forum which in my opinion is the best..
why in world do you want to be in a forum where who owns it treats you badly?  don't get me wrong but i find it good news to be banned from that particular forum. Kind regards.

What i have to say about this moves....Let me see...

 1) In a way it seems a nasty tactic to make us think twice before you push the button disable.
 2) On the other hand it seems a desperate move from them to control us.

If i may,  I am an enthusiast of Foucault's philosophies:  "Power  can  be found everywhere, causing actions that sometimes are in the field of law or in the field of truth. Power must be understood as a floating relationship, not the privilege of one institution or person, while knowledge is found in a relationship of form and content"

So how SS is treating us? bad or good?
They are concerned and want to control us. we got the power of our work, to leave and choose better relationships.
I think for those who can't quit right now they should at least start panning for new relationships.

 
 

So far I am better off with the new price structure of SS, in spite of many 10 to 17 cent sales.

Why should I boycot SS or even close my account? Why not accepting the 10 cent sales? I do, and I don�t care what will happen next year, because nobody can forsee the future.

what can i say Josephine... there's always one , right?I  am affraid to say that you will never get my 10cents.
I wish you all the best for you and 10 cents sales with a happy new year too! :-)
regards

Huh? Uncle pete I did not find illegal. never said that.
Its not a "pyramid scheme" or whatever evolving criminal scam. its just bad business as i said before.
it's business and it is very legal. SS is vertical with pyramid structure in terms of legal company, rewarding system, etc.

I like straight business. 50% or 60% for my work. no structure reward scheme/structure in whatever shape
we have choice to leave. i did that. 10 years ago.
still selling with my fair cut.

but if i may i joke here....i will leave the door open to horizontal kind of business since last news of angry ss contributors point to that street road... eheheh 

all the best. Leave ss.

Quote from: Evaristo tenscadisto on June 17, 2020, 09:53

Hi,
If you design a shape in SS earning Schedule based on 6 levels and a different % scheme i think you will find the pyramid shape. But Definitely it will not be the traditional "pyramid scheme" scam but rather something that was thought since Pit�goras and applied by SS to earn more

That isn't a "pyramid scheme", traditional or otherwise.

i am sry sean. it is. cleary you don�t know how to draw shapes with numbers. :-)

news:
Ceo Jason left Pond5.
New ceo: Tom Crary.

thoughts?

It's time to end Shutterstock.
Simple math will say the obvious: bad business
if you consider the cost to make footage, eventually in some or most of cases, you will be paying "passively" to sell your footage. Moreover the reset button is a killer for anyone that wants to invest in doing stock.
all the best for your sales.

what do you think will happen? more 0,03 for video sales or starting to see sales like 0,001 for you? And you won't remove port right? At some point i rather wash stairs of buildings for 25�/30� an hour.

I think Its time for clients to shoot their own footage or hired people for that purpose. They need footage but not hire because is less expensive to buy online. if they cannot find online...what do you think will happen?

i can guarantee that clients and microstock sites will not wash stairs. They hire people to do it.  :-)

Hi, just some useful info about this virus and stats:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

Although we dont have so manny cases yet in my country (Portugal) we are already starting mitigation phase. Last 24h there was rush in some supermarkets ending with shelves completely empty. There is no need for that since is a panic behaviour and not lack of food but people will start to do it.

Some simple steps like wash hands frequently, avoid close contact and gatherings will help to fight the spread. This is what was told by our DGS (general health directorate).