Practical guides to getting stock media accepted, found, and licensed.
An honest decision guide to stock photography and video. Who it works for, who it disappoints, and the real lever most people miss. No invented income numbers.
A practical walkthrough of selling stock footage and photos: which agencies to join, how to get accepted, and the submission workflow that gets work found.
Clips from Resolve zoom in for a few frames at the head and tail, then snap back — only in the file, not the timeline. Why it happens and the reliable fix.
A confident but wrong species ID gets clips rejected and buried in search. How to decide how specific to go, and why the shoot's location is your best check.
Model releases cover people. The building, the artwork, the logo in frame can need their own clearance, and it is the one contributors forget.
A brief is a buyer telling you exactly what footage they want. How stock briefs work, what the review statuses mean, and how to submit well.
Buyers cut three to ten seconds into a timeline. That decides how you trim, when to split a take, and why long uploads rarely sell.
Renaming files descriptively is the instinct that costs you later. A folder structure that survives four marketplaces and a reshoot.
The model-release test is not whether a face is visible, but whether the subject could identify themselves. How to judge it clip by clip.
Ten clips from one shoot, ten near-identical titles, so they split one search instead of covering ten. Why it happens and how to fix it.
322 Getty licenses over three and a half years. The clip that pays is never the one you'd have bet on, so the only move is to upload everything.
Getty and Pond5 match keywords against a controlled vocabulary. Red means unmatched. Here is how the vocabulary works and how to write for it.