motion zonehd dot com has closed!!! where can i got to sell my HVX stock footage??

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I got an email today from the owner of motion zonehd dot com and has stated the webiste has now closed. His email follows:


Hello Michael,

I have had technical problems with my ISP....
We cannot come to an agreement with them.
I have searched for a better way the past
six months to serve up the videos....

To make a long story short......
motion zonehd dot com is off-line and
will cease operations immediately.

I thought I was close to coming to a solution.

Without spending tens of thousands of dollars
we cannot proceed forward. Thank you for
your trust and faith in us to allow us the
opportunity to represent your great work.

If we owe you money it will be paid by
the end of this month.

I trust you will be able to market your footage
elsewhere, there are plenty of outlets available.

Sincerely.
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Its a shame I liked the site but the question is where does everyone else around go to sell there stock footage ?

I make stock off my HVX and do 3D animation backgrounds ( for dvd menus and stuff like that )???

Id love to have someone where I can load my stuff up, or send in DVD format but be able to check my sales online.... if there is a site.... Does anyone else around here sell stock to websites? and where is the best ?
Chers Mike
 
I stockphoto advertises in banner ads here, but I don't know much about them- except they get pretty high prices for clips. I use Revostock, have about 500 clips on. For a 720 clip I get 60% of $29.95, which in the stock world, is not a lot , but something. Strange thing about it- as I progressed from a few clips posted to 500 over about a 4 month period, my sales never went up much - stayed at about 10-20 clips per month.

Their uploading system is great and you can even load them into a spreadsheet and upload 50 or more clips at once.
 
If you REALLY want to get into making money through stock footage...take the extra money and invest in your own website. Make sure you add plenty of tags so search engines can locate your stuff. I had a friend of mine sell 20 seconds worth of stock footage that was sold for around $30. He did it through a site that allowed him to get a certain percentage of what they sold it for. It isn't worth it. If you think your footage is good enough to be paid for (in order to be in someone elses film) ...create your own website geared towards your professionalism...and sell the footage for more $$$...60% of $29.99 is NO way to make a living.
 
Domis has a good point. If you're looking to only make beer money every now and then, a micro stock agency is the way to go. In order to make any real money in micro stock, you need a thousands of clips. It's a volume numbers game.

It's to bad about Mike cause he had a fair deal going and you could set your own price.

I'm not real sure why micro stock houses are hot right now. I can see from a buyers standpoint getting clips for $35 but not really sure why producers would be willing to sell their footage for peanuts.

I guess it all comes down to how you feel about your footage. If it's pretty generic then maybe that's ok selling it for $35.

But if it's not, I'm not sure why you'd want to sell footage that could sell for $400 to $1500 or more a clip for $35 though.
 
I wouldn't think anyone would sell their good-great footage to a stock site. I wouldn't.
 
Why not?

I'd never put any of my work in a micro agency but you can make a ton of money putting your best footage in with a major stock house.

If your footage is good enough that someone wants to buy it, why do you want to give it away? That's the part I don't understand.

Sure, I don't sell as many clips as a micro stock provider may, but when Disney buys 4 clips this quarter, it would take me a really long time to equal that sale in micro stock sales.

So, I guess I really don't understand the mentality that, a few bucks is better than no bucks when you could be making allot of bucks.
 
n8ture said:
Why not?

I'd never put any of my work in a micro agency but you can make a ton of money putting your best footage in with a major stock house.

If your footage is good enough that someone wants to buy it, why do you want to give it away? That's the part I don't understand.

Sure, I don't sell as many clips as a micro stock provider may, but when Disney buys 4 clips this quarter, it would take me a really long time to equal that sale in micro stock sales.

So, I guess I really don't understand the mentality that, a few bucks is better than no bucks when you could be making allot of bucks.
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Ah sorry, what I meant was I wouldn't sell any great work to a micro site like the one's mentioned before. But to a major stock house that will pay you good-great, yes.
 
Got ya. :)

Yeah, micro stock is great for seconds or if you're just doing it for a few bucks.

If you have thousands of clips, you can probably make some good money at it.

If your serious about making a living at it though, you really need to get in with a traditional house. Not saying it can't be done by going micro, but the odds are against you.
 
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ive kind of wondered about the whole microstock thing for a while. coming from well over a decade in the graphic design business, i VERY rarely used stock photos (corbis, gettyone, etc...) because their prices were borderline extortionate. using any ONE of their rights-managed photos could often be 2 grand or more - for ONE USE. im sorry, all but the biggest dollar advertisers simply dont have the budget for that.

what microstock represents to me is a greater variety of photos and a much more reasonable price. i assumed that istockphoto and other "volume pricing" models would work out in the wash - kinda like, do you want to sell 10 photos for $1000 each or sell 200 photos for $50? whats kind of sad is that they may be (IMO) negatively affecting the illustration market in the fact that in the past it would cost $2000 to have a custom, PERFECTLY suited illustration done, but now the variety of microstock sites, you can get "close enough" for like $20. in most cases that is a fine tradeoff for the buyer at large and in this case the work, and the market suffers...

telling some newbie to create their own stock-image website is totally ludicrous! one single person with no marked history of work or representation simply is NOT going to be able to drive enough traffic to their own personal gallery site without dumping a ton of money into advertising - unless they are just so freakin awesome that their work becomes viral in nature.

BTW, what kind of penny-pincher thinks that istockphoto is expensive?!?!? their stuff is PEANUTS! even their expensive stuff ($50?) pays for itself in time saved on a single use...!...!...?
 
I like what Kevin has said about this in the past..
I think that selling yourself proves to be more financially beneficial in the long run. I sold a clip to the Maury Povich show.. and it aired twice and I ended up making 2800 bucks from just the one 18 second clip. Again, a buddy of mile sold a 16mm sunset shot for 1500 and 2000 for an underwater collection. You'd have to sell quite a lot of 25 dollar clips to make that up..
 
BTW, what kind of penny-pincher thinks that istockphoto is expensive?!?!? their stuff is PEANUTS! even their expensive stuff ($50?) pays for itself in time saved on a single use...!...!...?
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I said that relying on my feeble memory as to their pricing - thought it was around $150 for a clip. Obviously they are in the same league price wise as Revostock. I don't believe they pay anywhere near 60% to the photographer though. Can't find that info on their site.
 
Wonder why MotionZoneHD doesn't just find another ISP?

It's a shame, I've had good experiences with them.
 
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This is wierd. Why does it say artbeats.com in my previous post. I didn't write that. I wrote Motion Zone HD.
 
There was a falling out here with Motion Zone HD.

Whatever happened with his ISP, it sounded like it was going to be a ton of money to go somewhere else with it.

It is to bad because I thought he had a good ratio on price/commission for both provider and client.
 
Hey kevin, how does people like disney find your stock? Do you send them a show reel or do you have an agency to move your stock around?

I want to start using my HVX more, its sitting on my bookshelf doing nothing and since I live in Brisbane Australia ( theres heap around here to shot/capture) id like to make it pay itself off... i bought it for short film making which ive almost finnished getting script, actors and loactions sorted out but I like the idea of flooding stock onto a stock clip site so they sell your stuff while you sit back doing other things and god willing get a cheque in the mail every so often for it......

Whats the most sort after stock anyhow? I have heard that if you specialise into a certain field it can be more rewarding money wise. Like building fire stock for eg.....
 
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