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

Time lapse shots sell well. Watch some of the reality shows and look at the inserted shots that were obviously not shot by the show. Like the home shows that go to a city to rehab a house - you will see fast moving clouds to show time passing, sunset at the end of the day, etc. Some shots that sell well that I don't do are model release shots - guy text messaging, girl walking with briefcase, etc.
 
Art beats

Art beats

Well I just signed a 5yr deal with art beats to sell my entire fire footage collection and seeing that it has been 18 months since I sold a clip from my library and it was shot in 4x3 DV I thought some money is better than it sitting around so I said what the heck.... They market in 38 countires and if I wrtie much more i could get whacked with the confidentially agreement so i better shut uP. But Kevin has a point that the kind of quality footage produced by our beloved HVX200 in the right hands can make you some good money... Although I haven't landed Disney yet I plan on Launching a 10 second High def website where all the clips are... you guessed it 10 seconds... www.10HD.com

Anyway this is where I will sell my HD to the world and maybe other filmmakers who would like to sell theirs. The site is in its infancy so dont laugh yet....

Jim Kinsey
 
FF,
I have my work with two stock agencies as well as selling stock myself.

My sales to Disney this current quarter were from one of the agencies. I've been lucky in that I haven't had the time to do much of anything with my own site yet business keeps having a way of finding me.

I got an email last week from a museum in California wanting to do an exhibit. I asked them a bunch of questions and they realized they hadn't thought things through. Long story short, if things work out, not only will they use my footage but I'll edit the entire production for them.

I'd love to go to Australia to film some stock! :) I keep telling Barry and Jarred they need to do a Bootcamp there and invite me along! :)

Both agencies I'm with sell all my footage only as rights managed. It took about a year to get the footage circulating around the system before I started seeing a return. But now I've been lucky to get checks every quarter now.

It's totally a numbers game. The more clips you have with someone, the more sales you can make. I have about 700 clips from my last trip to Yellowstone to send out this week.

My business partner and I have a few things we need to finish up before we can officially open shop. Once that happens I'm hoping to see more sales go out from our own site.

Jim,

I can talk about Artbeats as they sent me a contract and I wound up not going with them because I didn't want to go RF.

Back then I think it was like $60 a collection I would have got in royalties. Not sure if that's accurate anymore as this was a while ago.

They're a great company but like I said above, I only sell rights managed so I had to pass on AB.

At least you have some clips on your site Jim! I haven't had time to add any on my site yet.
 
Ab

Ab

Kevin,

I Just recently returned from Tanzania and Argentina as my producing job affords me the chance to travel all over the world. I am working on getting that HD footage ready to sell. Yeah I have a few clips but not even a wisper of my HD library. I plan on selling mounds of stuff when I get caught up with the productions I am currently editing.

What did you concentrate on in YS? From the looks of your stuff I would venture to say wolves... Predation during the spring? I live 3 hrs from Yellowstone but never make down that way... Can you believe that.

AB get a majority of the sales as expected but I still can sell those clips myself but not to another AB/ RF house.

JK
 
Well Kevin if you and Barry Green want to come to australia ( brisbane ) ill happily set two beds up in my house and ill be your tour guide.
We have so much to film here and no one doing it. Once it stops raining here I will be going out looking for our wild Kangaroos for my stock footage. There is a small colony of them near me on the beach and there always there in the morinings then return just before the sun goes down.

mike
 
Jim,

We'll have to go shoot in Yellowstone sometime. It's my all time favorite haunt.

I shot some great footage of three coyotes chasing a wolf in Lamar Valley.

Normally a wolf will kill a coyote but this one must have felt outnumbered.

Was driving in the valley very slowly with my windows down and heard a wolf howl then heard the coyotes starting to yip. Stopped and set up and waited.

Must not have been more than twenty minutes and the wolf crossed the road right in front of me followed by the coyotes. Filmed them till they all ran out of sight.

Was funny because at one point one of the coyotes about tagged the wolf then realized his two buddies were a bit farther than he want so he checked up and waited for them to catch up. :)

The best part of the trip was a coyote sat down next to me and we watched the sunrise over the Yellowstone river one morning. I didn't move a muscle and eventually he took off. That was when I swung the camera around and filmed him.

I didn't want to scare him but I also didn't want to encourage him either.

On a sad note, they removed one of my favorite grizzlies there, Hollywood Star also known as Blondie. She had been relocated but returned because she was used to people feeding her etc. She had spent so much energy coming back to where people were she only weighed 140 pounds and would have most likely never survived the winter.

Wow, I sure have digressed from talking about Motion Zone HD closing.

Sorry about that!
 
n8ture said:
The best part of the trip was a coyote sat down next to me and we watched the sunrise over the Yellowstone river one morning.
Click to expand...

The coyote is telling the rest of the pack, "The best part of the morning was the chance to see one of those HVX-200's up close. The guy never even moved a muscle!"

:-)
 
I shoot mine in 720p/60 So I can savor every moment.
About the only time I shoot in 1080 is to do time-lapse stuff. And that is usually at 1080p/30.

Yeah, the coyote was awesome. I didn't even realize it was there at first because I was so intent on watching the sunrise.
 
dam barry as soon as your name is mention on these boards you jump onboard. Do you have some alert system going like the BAT phone.

What where you doing in sydney? more Panasonic stuff or where you on a holiday?
 
Hi All. Jarred, Barry, if you'll give me this one indulgence . . . AlwaysHD.com. We've recently been featured in Post Magazine and Studio Monthly (among others). I'll be glad to discuss marketing footage with you, just shoot me an email.

I don't "self promote" in forums, but I've been dealing with the fallout from Motion Zone's closing for the past few weeks and wanted to chime in.
 
Hey all,
Still new here, but I'm pretty much sold on purchasing a HVX. I'll actually be in NYC tomorrow, so I plan on stopping by B&H, hoping to get a test drive :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG), which will be the deciding factor. (They allow that there, right?)

Anyway, I didn't realize stock footage could be such a big sell, sounds like a great way to learn my new camera and maybe even have it pay for itself...my question would be, are there rights infringement issues with that sort of thing? For example, being from New Jersey, I'd try shooting in state forests such as the Pine Barrens...would there be issues with copyrighting or something, using footage from a government owned area? For those of you that shoot nature stock on a regular basis, ever run into situations where forest rangers and the like give you a hard time about filming?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top