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

I submitted some footage and it got rejected almost immediately.

I got this:

Warning: A footage clip you recently submitted, had an aspect ratio of 1.25, which is less than our required minimum aspect ratio of 1.3.

I'm new to this so could somebody please explain where I'm going wrong?

I capture my video direct from a DV camcorder into Adobe Premiere Pro.

At first I thought it was because I uploaded it in PAL - I then tried NTSC and I recorded it as a 720 by 576 size.

Does anybody know what format I need to record it in?

Is the file too big? I waited 30minutes for the 112MB file to upload and I'm not sure where I'm going wrong! I thought it would be pretty simple!

I have a load of footage stock and would like to be able to upload it!

Thanks for your help guys

Chad

varius · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:48 pm

The problem here is that the server accepting the videos can't interprete none-square pixels. For a PAL DV video you need to convert it to a clip using square pixels and 768x576 pixels. Premiere can easily do that for you.

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

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

I've just tried to upload an ntsc version and it's still saying that the pixel aspect ratio is wrong and it's been rejected immediately.

anybody out there that can help?

varius · Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:22 pm

I have a German copy of Premiere, so maybe the steps a little different (especiall differently named).

Here's basicly what you do (Premiere Pro 2.0):
- To begin with you need to have a clip in your timeline that you want to submit to shutterstock.
- With the timeline selected you press <cntrl> <M> for export movie. You get the "Export Movie" window. There's three buttons: Save, Cancel and... dunno... I'd guess it's called "Properties" or something.
- Anyway, press the last button (the one not called save or cancel).
- Click on "Video" in the left part of the window
- Set Pixel ratio to square pixels.
- Set frame size to 768x576. Once you do that, it should say "4:3" next to the field where you enterd those values.
- Adjust all compressor properties as you see fit (at that size use maximum quality wherever available)
- Click OK.
- Choose a name for your video and click "save".
- Wait. Depending on Clip size and processor power, wait a bit longer still. ;-)
- Done.

Hope that helps.

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

thanks, i think it worked!

it's not been rejected almost immediately anyway!

right - back to the rendering.......

varius · Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:02 pm

Good luck. Would you care to give us a link to your footage gallery, once there is something accepted?

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

will do - as soon as it is accepted!

also, i just tried to upload another piece of footage but i'm getting a reply back from the shutterstock server saying that it will only accept picture files (jpg etc). Maybe it's just a glitch, i'll try again tomorrow...

papillonpicture · Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 20

varius · Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:48 am

Wow, that would be real good news. I spent several days converting a few hundred clips to use square pixels instead of original PAL DV standard...

OK, off to test this with a short clip. :-)

papillonpicture · Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 20

varius · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:44 am

I haven't tried yet. The batch that just got accepted was already prepared and uploaded. I'll try with the next batch (maybe tonight).

Congratulations and welcome aboard! :)

varius · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:17 pm

Well, tried it and it was accepted by the system. No warning or automatic rejection jet. Let's see if it gets accepted by the reviewer.

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

I'm glad I can submit stuff in PAL - it was taking me ages to convert it then render it!

I've only uploaded a couple of shots - nothing spectacular at the minute - haven't had time to capture all of my stock footage yet!

http://footage.shutterstock.com/videos.html?submitter_id=1489

will probably get round to capturing some more DV stuff over the weekend when work is over...

(If that ever happens!)

varius · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:29 am

OK, the bug seems to be really fixed. All three of my clips in original PAL DV standard were accepted and are now live. Now... could someone please buy them? ;-)