Footage file formats

Hello all,
I hope I am posting in the right section, I am a 'young' Pond5 member so, if this is not the right section please let me know.

I have some dubt about the best file format for footage.

I was thinking the best was the NTSC 29.9 fps. But now I read that only North America is interested at it.
So the best is to shoot in both systems Pal and Ntsc??
I am shooting from Italy, so I suppose my more interested clients are non-european... but maybe I'm wrong.

I'll appreciate any advice and suggestion.

Thank you very much,
Lorenzo

Lorenzo
I have looked into this - everyone has looked into it and everyone has come up with a different thought.
I see great video guys shooting and selling lots of 29, then I see the same with 25 and then again with 23 so my thought is that it actually doesn't have a great bearing on sales either way. Content is King.

Having said that most people in Europe tend to shoot 25 and most in US shoot at 29. Hey - that's why I shoot at 23!

Oh.. I see, Content is the King.. thank you!
but just to ask, question from a really newbie about videos.
If a client see a great video at 29, but he uses 24, does he can convert it to its format? Or he has to choose another?

thanks again in advance :)

I don't know much from personal experience about that side of it - however a number of buyers have come on this forum and said they'll buy the clip regardless of the frame rate and just convert it.

Actually Lorenz I have just found a thread on here from June this year when a buyer made some comments and I asked about frame rate. Here is part of the conversation for good measure he also talks about pricing:

(buyer said this) I work full time as a video editor for a small production company and just recently started selling stock myself. Coming from the buying side pricing doesn't matter too much, except when things priced way too high, but that is rare. When we need a shot, it doesn't matter if it's $40 or $400. If we need it, we buy it. And what we buy is so random. It's all based on what the project calls for. Maybe one week we need a shot of seagulls flying overhead. Or another week we need a cool motion graphic background. If we can find it we buy it, because it's usually cheaper/easier/faster and more convenient to spend a little cash for a clip rather than acquire it ourselves.
Hi Natebowman,
Thank you for your comments - it's always good to hear something from a buyer's perspective.
Could I ask you to comment on frame rate?

Are you bothered what frame rate the clip is?
Do you easily/happily convert?
Does it affect your choice of clip?

I am sure many people here would be interested in any comments you have.

@Videostock50: I'm in the US, so our preferred frame rate is 29.97fps or 23.98fps, but most of the time frame rate doesn't really matter. If the content of the clip fits what we're looking for we buy it regardless of frame rate. Most of the clips we purchased have had one of those two frame rates. Of the very few that had say, 25fps, we just converted them to whatever we needed.

Wow, this is a great new.. well more than one!!
Thanks Videostock50.. I will have to follow the forums much more.
Bye! Lor.

Lor,
the fora are searchable, that's how I found that thread - lots of good stuff to read!

See my blog topic on http://www.stockvideoseller.com/public_html/topics/3-the-universal-formats-wha.html.

Thank you both again!
I think I tried the search function, but to me seemed that no thread was interesting. I will surely use it in the future !