Stock Video Footage – Making Life Easier

by adam on October 20, 2009

Taking Stock Video Footage or any other photographic artistic endeavor is a very fulfilling hobby. Wouldn’t it be nice to turn your hobby into a lucrative income? There are huge amounts of designers who look for royalty-free stock images for their creative pursuits and having your video footage available to them is a great way to build an online income.
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The tools you will need to create your own income from your stock videos is, of course, the talent for making quality videos, the files and a few links to resources to set up accounts for displaying your work.

If you want to make money selling your creative video artwork online then there are many outlets for doing this and they are usually free to register. You can go to one of the links and sign up for an account, follow all their directives to become a seller of your own work on their site and you are in business.

Some of the hosting websites will expect you to wait while your work and application are reviewed by their staff. The best way to approach this kind of situation is to look at what the website is currently offering for sale and the category that you are interested in applying to for your stock videos to sell.

For instance, if your category happens to be for landscapes then do a search for this category and see what images are already listed for sale and make a comparison with what you have to offer. You may feel your work needs some updates after viewing what is already up for sale. If so, make any corrections before you upload your work.

When you are happy with what you want to submit, then go ahead and upload your stock video and wait for the confirmation email that your work is acceptable. After you have been accepted for the work that you have submitted, create some more videos to upload and then work on getting as many websites, photo and design groups and blogs to hear about your offer online. This will create interest and help move your work.

Of course, on the off chance that your work is not acceptable, then review the reason why it was rejected and make changes in your work to bring it up to marketing standards. This may be in the area of styling, content or technical quality. You have the talent you need to make it work.

Once you have some good shots of your subject upload it to your computer. How you do this depends on your camera type. Once you have it uploaded you can do some general editing to your Stock Video Footage. You will want your video to be very appealing right at first glance but it still needs to be as creative and original as possible. When you are happy with your video, the service that you choose to sell your HD Stock Video Footage should be one that is easy to use. The best part of all this is once your stock video is uploaded and accepted, then you are ready to begin earning income.

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