My First Sale. Yay!

Hi everyone and pond5.

Just got my first sale! Below is the clip :)

Thank you pond5 and the person who bought it.

https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/118514

thomas

Hey Thomas,
Congratulations, great video.

First of many.
Jake

Way to go Thomas,
Yes indeed the first of many. Was this the puppy from the two dogs mating clip? LOL. Keep the clips coming and sales will grow.

Don

thanks jake!
haha Don, he is from another couple :)

Very nice sale! Keep the videos coming. Also, don't want to be NEGATIVE at a great time like this, but your first frame is screwy. What editing software did you use? I used the free editing programs and had the same issues.. some sites will reject videos for the first frame being bad. Just trying to save you some time in the future.

hi dapoopta,

yeah i m not sure why the first frame preview turned out to be like this but the actual clip doesn't have this problem. I am using sony vegas :)

and thanks for the advise!

thomas.

Congratulations Thomas, nice clip.
I am also submitting PAL SD clips and using Sony Vegas but I am rendering as mov DV clips and they seem to come out fuzzy looking. . . .not the best look. I see that yours are rendered as MotionJPEG A. Could you please tell me what settings you are using during rendering to get that sort of file as they look a lot sharper than mine.

Thanks, Mark

Prob quality to 99%, upper field first (interlaced), 24-bit color depth... the standard stuff :-). There is a post I have on here about setting for premiere, I'd imagine that the sony VV is similar.

Thanks dapoopta, I had my quality settings too high I think. Pulled it back to 98% and the output mov is pretty close in quality to the input avi. Seems like sometimes less is more:-)

Mark

Had another play with Vegas and it seems that I get my sharpest mov files(as good as the original avi) from Vegas 7. Vegas 8 seems to produce less that sharp .mov files when converting from avi. Can't figure that one out at all but it looks to be the case.

Mark