Should I offer HD version AND SD version?

I shoot at 1080 and I haven't really gotten many sales, is 1080 too much of a hassle for people to deal with? I guess some people still use SD and don't have the capability to covert themselves or just don't feel like it? That or I need more better footage...

If you have a HD camera, looks like you do, stick with the HD. I wouldn't waste time submitting both HD and SD. Others may think different. To me if a buyer needs a clip a HD or SD has the same value. A HD clip can always be downsized, a SD is always a SD. Ya I know some think they can make a SD look HD but an apple is still an apple. Just work on quality first then quantity. Remember with over 100,000 clips here a few hundred just doesn't always come up first in searches.

Don

I shoot HD, all I upload is HD. I couldn't imagine the workload for both!

Don’t fight with SD! If they want THAT shot, they will buy it. Conversion dosed matter. In my opinion: 1. you need more UNIQUE footage. 2. you need MORE footage.

Just my 2cents
Rudi

thanks for input guys, onward I continue..

Hope you don´t mind. Just to give you a short cut to more sales from something I had to figure out myself:

Your clips are a bit too panoramic. Stock is very much about "the one thing", i.e. a clearly defined subject in close up. Do wide angles (panorama) only if it´s worth it (skyline, crowded crossing of two big avenues, mountain chain...)

From a little compendium on photographic composition that I have once read (Learning to see creatively by Brian Peterson):

1.Define the winner

Just another train station of a mid class town without anything special is not a promising clip. So you look around and maybe find a worker repairing the trails, which is a much better subject).

2.Fill the frame

Make the subject B-I-G by showing only the most important parts, in order to avoid loosing it in the surroundings. In the worker´s case: show the upper part with the head (sweating) and the hands (working). Nobody is interested in his legs. If it´s a bunch of flowers, cut away good part of the vase if it´s not from China and 2000 years old (in this case, cut away the flowers :).

3.correct positioning

Google for the rule of 3rds and the move/look space. They´re the 2 most important.

4.Think about other angles as well.

In most cases, your cam should be at the height of the subject (e.g. for persons or animals at the height of their eyes). If you´re filming from a higher position (angle) you make the subject look smaller, from a lower position you make it bigger. Both should be intentional and not because you do not want to move.

Technically:
Clean lens and filter, use tripod, shoot in full manual control of exposure and focus, give the cam a few seconds to adjust the white balance or set it also manually if you do not like the result.

If I had done all this, I wouldn´t have had to throw away 90% of my old world trip clips taken during years of ignorance :).

Make your next 50 or 100 clips being close ups of interesting subjects and you´ll sell.

Good luck,
Stefan

Stefan, I appreciate your objectivity, everybody needs a dose of that here and again. You're right, things are a bit too wide, I'll def centralize my upcoming shots. Thanks for your input!

Top post stefgo - plenty of geat tips there.

Thank you both! If it helps a bit I am happy. Sometimes I´m not sure about what people think if I come up with things that nobody has asked me for and that might sound like a critique. It never is! Basically, I`m trying to teach myself and I´m nowhere near of having mastered anything of that what I am saying. Just keep going and practising...

Cheers,
Stefan

Thanks Stefan Good reminder