Good question! The answer is yes and no. Most of the air show footage can be submitted as editorial clips if I follow the rules for editorial. Editorial clips cannot be used for commercial purposes so it limits their marketability, but they do sell anyway and the commissions are the same for commercial and editorial. If I happen to get any shots that don't show logos, insignias, or if the aircraft is not too uniquely identifiable, then I can submit those clips as commercial and then they can be used by a stock footage buyer for anything they want. So, air shows are not great for stock footage opportunities, but then again, I'm there for the fun and challenge of shooting the planes and any thoughts of potential stock footage usage is barely on my mind. You might be interested in this video "How to make Money Shooting Stock Footage" vimeo.com/323480465
As it says in the description above . . . Camera: Sony PMW-F55 Lens: Canon 200-400mm f/4 lens Tripod: O'Connor 1030D head and 35L legs Codec: Sony 4K RAW, 2K RAW, and XAVC-HD Gamma: S-LOG2 Edited with Adobe Premiere and graded in DaVinci Resolve on a MacBook Pro
What an incredible footage! I can not understand why high quality videos like this one do not have more views...
beautiful as usual doug
Are you able to sell footage like this on filmstock sites Doug, or are there release issues?
Good question! The answer is yes and no.
Most of the air show footage can be submitted as editorial clips if I follow the rules for editorial. Editorial clips cannot be used for commercial purposes so it limits their marketability, but they do sell anyway and the commissions are the same for commercial and editorial. If I happen to get any shots that don't show logos, insignias, or if the aircraft is not too uniquely identifiable, then I can submit those clips as commercial and then they can be used by a stock footage buyer for anything they want. So, air shows are not great for stock footage opportunities, but then again, I'm there for the fun and challenge of shooting the planes and any thoughts of potential stock footage usage is barely on my mind.
You might be interested in this video "How to make Money Shooting Stock Footage"
vimeo.com/323480465
What did you shoot this with?
As it says in the description above . . .
Camera: Sony PMW-F55
Lens: Canon 200-400mm f/4 lens
Tripod: O'Connor 1030D head and 35L legs
Codec: Sony 4K RAW, 2K RAW, and XAVC-HD
Gamma: S-LOG2
Edited with Adobe Premiere and graded in DaVinci Resolve on a MacBook Pro