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pjmorley · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 3061

I just sold my first footage. And I hardly have any uploaded yet and they've only been up about 10 days. I really only uploaded to see how it works but for $29.70 a download I'll be adding more soon :-)

digitalchaos · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 268 Location: Toronto, Canada

Hey welcome aboard!

You've got some neat videos. Which clip was it that sold?

Julian.

pjmorley · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 3061

Well I was going to see if anyone could guess because I only have 13 clips but it was this one.

http://footage.shutterstock.com/video.html?id=27196

The footage itself isn't that exciting but the sale is and it's great that someone sees a use for it.

digitalchaos · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 268 Location: Toronto, Canada

Yep and thats the beauty of stock footage. :D

fredgoldstein · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:16 am

Hey pg, it is nice to see you here, congrats.

fred

varius · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:11 am

Congratulations! And welcome to the sales club. :)

pjmorley · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 3061

Thanks. This one sale has made me realise the potential of footage.

I think I'm going to try some time lapse at the weekend. I'm new to video so have lots to learn but I'm looking forward to it.

barbarella · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 51 Location: canada

Those abstract/background shots are my favourite. Great clip. Way to go!!
Barbarella.

fa63yyc · Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Calgary, Canada

Congrats PJ!

Wait till it becomes a regular thing, it's even sweeter. Like I've been saying for months, the potential is enormous.

Francois

cardoso · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:06 am

Hi pjmorley,

Welcome aboard! I've only sold 4 clips all together but all 4 were in the last 1.5 months... so considering I don't have loads of clips, I feel pretty good about this. It's also very nice to get $30 for a clip... I was on another site months ago and I used to get $2 to $5.... sales volume was good but the return was bad... so I left them and came here... the site works fairly well and the forum support is fantastic.

Best of luck. Happy sales
Nelson

chadchud · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 510 Location: London, England

Glad to se another Brit in the footage area - thought the Canadians were taking over!

Well Done on your first sale mate - keep uploading!

Chad

fa63yyc · Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Calgary, Canada

pjmorley · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 3061

So that's 2 Brits here Chad. Best get uploading before the rest arrive. It's almost spring and they'll be out in force ;-)

Nelson, I also uploaded a couple of clips at the other place and had one sale for a surprisingly small amount. In fact about the same as I get for photos on the same site.

Thanks for the replies everyone. It's encouraging to see that sales are seemingly becoming more regular. I've a way to go before I catch up with you all though, especially the Canadians with their big equipment. ;-)

varius · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:28 am

I guess we Europeans need to team up if we want to keep pace with the Canadians. ;-)

pjmorley · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 3061

Even a whole team with every country in Europe represented would have a hard job keeping up with Francois I reckon. His road trip sounds like it's going to keep him busy for months with all that footage to edit.

You could do the same in any country. I may even consider doing something similar myself here. I've got a couple of weeks at Easter and for the second week we have got some outings planned. Funny I never used to take my video camera with me, always preferring to take my DSLR but I'll certainly be packing the video camera from now on.