Cool stuff. I've been following your channel since you started it. It's always interesting to see someone else's perspective on the stock footage industry.

What does this have to do with the topic of Vimeo Stock?

If you want to do video, I strongly suggest looking into BlackBox.global. Video is a lot more work to submit than images, since none of the metadata goes with the files (as they do with JPG).

Also, BB aggregates all member videos, and thus negotiates a higher payout percentage. In fact, the % they get is high enough that, even after they take their 15% of the royalty, you end up with more $$ in your pocket than if you had submitted on your own.

     https://www.blackbox.global

If you do use them, I would appreciate your using my referral code -- JKX5J2D3 . Yeah, one of those "I get a small % that comes out of the agency pockets and doesn't cost you anything�"

If you follow me at all, you know I almost never recommend a third party service. This one, I happen to believe in enough to break that rule of silence though�

BTW, they ONLY do videos. No still images, no music, etc.

I noticed a recent slowdown. Definitely the slowest site that I upload footage to.

I pretty much try to avoid models with tattoos.

Does that mean Dissolve will need to update it's HD prices back to $79 for all those who sell both on VB and dissolve??

I was wondering that also, I would guess that they would need to. Maybe time to put my footage on Dissolve.

That entire collection is footage from the Member Library, so available for free download to members. I would guess that explains the lack of variety.

Cool bonus from Adobe.

What happens if my Adobe Stock and Creative Cloud accounts are based on different emails and not connected?

Quote from: ForrestBrown on May 16, 2018, 12:16

Quote from: increasingdifficulty on May 15, 2018, 01:32

If you are in the 3D world, you will quickly learn that no one makes all the elements of a complete scene themselves. No one. No one owns the copyright to all the elements. Do you own the copyright to the standard shapes that come with the 3D software? Nope. Do you own the copyright to the sky elements in the software (sun, clouds, etc.)? Nope.

I don't think it's that uncommon for people to create all of their own elements when making a rendered image or videos.

Not in a complete, detailed scene. Ask any professional. That would mean weeks (if not months) of work on one scene. It's simply not practical.

Just pool water, sure. Just a single planet on a black (or starry) background. Sure, although textures for planets are usually bought or downloaded from somewhere. But not a forest landscape, with rocks, trees, leaves, twigs, etc. etc., or a realistic interior / exterior.

I'm a professional animator, so your "ask any profession" is just wrong. It definitely depends on the scene you're working on, but I would guess that a significant amount of the computer generated stock images and videos were entirely created by one person without buying 3D models or textures. 

If you are in the 3D world, you will quickly learn that no one makes all the elements of a complete scene themselves. No one. No one owns the copyright to all the elements. Do you own the copyright to the standard shapes that come with the 3D software? Nope. Do you own the copyright to the sky elements in the software (sun, clouds, etc.)? Nope.

I don't think it's that uncommon for people to create all of their own elements when making a rendered image or videos.

I do not think that any of the stock agencies would steal downloads on purpose, but with how buggy some of the stock companies web sites have been, I would not have been surprised is not all sales were recored properly.

I've had a few instances where I knew a client was buying one of my videos and they all showed up in my sales. Just last month I had a client buy one of my clips from pond5. The sale didn't show up at first and I was getting nervous, but it did show up after a couple of days. Hopefully that was the original client's sale and not a second person buying the same video.

The reason the stock companies don't want you buying your own photos or footage...I remember on istock in the early days, because of how the Best Match search worked, some people would buy their own images as soon as they went live. It would give that image a big boost in the search results. It turned from people buying their own images to people forming gangs that would buy each other's images.

Please, someone who have model released images accepted recently on Shutterstock,

In what format do you write dates?
 I find contradicting info about it. I've seen SS forum post about releases being rejected for the date written in the format suggested in some FAQ pages on the SS website.
I couldn't get any releases accepted for months, and when I ask support about the problem I always just get a generic text about release rules, but it seems to me I'm complying with all of them.

I try to always write out the month. April, May, June.

I use the iStock release and haven't had issues.