Scott Campbell
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Many thanks!
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Thank you so much. I never even noticed that button before! Success!
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HA!! I have done the exact same thing. I searched and searched on eBay for a laptop with OS 10.6.8, bought it, installed FCP 7 and took the whole thing offline. I never open the internet on it…it is devoted to editing. I am in heaven! I reinstalled all of my plug-ins. And it does edit 4K (as Pro Rez) to boot. I am HAPPY! It won’t edit MP4, but I hate that codec anyway.
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I’ve sold my footage through most of the sites: from Getty and Corbis (when it was around), to the “lower tier” companies, including Pond5. Pond5 is by far the best. I think they are close to taking most of the business away from the other stock houses (even Getty) – and, in my opinion, they would definitely succeed if they introduced an “exclusive” clause for their footage, which they currently don’t have. I love setting my own prices. I have a couple of clips priced at $290 that sell a couple of times a year. The pricing for my various shots goes all the way down to $25. But folks that believe you can make a living only selling stock footage are just hoping and wishing, in my opinion (unless you are the owner of the company). I don’t see how that can ever happen. It will always be a side business (i.e. “beer money, as mentioned earlier). If people are making rent and mortgage payments from stock footage, I’d love to hear about it and be encouraged by that. I find, having working in advertising over 3 decades, that footage of visuals that can be used as metaphors sell the best and are used most often (i.e. flowers blooming = life, waves crashing = turmoil, young hands holding = puppy love, etc.). Footage with people in it can sometimes be a problem because the images are too “specific,” often being too time, age or location specific (except for babies, scientists and engineers). I can’t count the number of times I had to remind production companies NOT to include ANY palm trees in the shot when shooting national commercials.