What do you think about selling templates on videoblocks.com?

[Steve Brame]

Many of the AE Templates on Videoblocks are also sold on Revostock. The problem I have with Videoblocks is that they are based on a monthly fee, whereas Revostock and most other outlets are a per item purchase scenario. If you need lots and lots of stock, then $79 for unlimited downloading may be best. However, if you only need an occasional download, then paying per item may make more sense.

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[Greg Neumayer]

I sold a couple things on Pond5, with the funds being deposited to my PayPal account. They have a non-exclusive rate of 50%.

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[Nikki Jones]

Danilo,

I’m with Video Blocks, and hopefully I can provide a relatively unbiased response to your concerns!

The reason that you don’t see any information on VideoBlocks.com about how we pay contributors is because we do not accept third party submissions like Pond5/Revo and other marketplaces.

Because of our subscription model and the free trial that we offer, it would be unfair to accept submissions and then give away contributor’s material. Instead, we get our content in one of three ways:

1) We create it in-house (we have a studio in Washington DC and some fun equipment like the Vision Research Phantom, and we have on-staff videographers who travel the world)

2) We pay on a work-for-hire basis to have original content created (example: The aerial video of New York City that we have on VideoBlocks.com: We paid $10,000 to rent a Jetranger helicopter, outfit it with 20lbs of giros and a Varicam and shoot for 2 hours)

3) Or we occasionally purchase non-exclusive rights to existing material and then pay a large sum up front to the contributors.

When we do purchase third party clips, we typically pay lump sums in the ballpark of $10,000 and upwards for batches of clips. We pay it immediately before distributing any material. Because it is a non-exclusive purchase, we also encourage contributors to continue selling their clips on Pond5/Revo/Shutterstock, etc. This way the contributors make money, we get great material, and our Video Blocks members have access to high quality clips.

We do not work with very many third party contributors, but when we do we try to make it a great experience up front, and develop an ongoing relationship. In 2012 alone we paid our small group of contributors over $600,000.

Does this make sense?

– Nikki

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[Danilo Almeida]

Thank you guys for the answers.

And Nikki, yes, this makes sense. Thank you for clarify how videoblocks.com operates. I stopped with templates for a while, but i intend to return and make better ones. I hope we can do business in the future.

Thanks

[Greg Neumayer]

Thanks for your info Nikki. For the most part, I like the VideoBlocks footage. As you guys add content, my hope would be that you abandon some of your older, lower quality clips (and SD footage) that I’ve run into and maybe ease back on the compression. I’d be happy to download a file twice as large for less compression. (Admittedly, I was hoping to knock out the background, which is going to tough with any type of compression.) Maybe there’s a way you could provide some low-compression shots when it’s pretty obvious the shot would be used for compositing: a greenscreen shot, fires, smokes, transitions, etc.

Anyway, I think you guys are on the right track. Sure beats paying $100+ for a single clip on the other sites. Thanks!

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