Guide for selling stock video

What we want

• Vertical footage
• Asian faces (with Model Release)
• Commercial work (eg. Subjects relating to architecture, industry, sports, science & technology)
• Drones
• VJ loops
• Animated backgrounds
• Special effects (eg. Green screen compositions, explosions, smoke, fire)

Stock videos

Requirements:

• Duration: 3 to 120 seconds
• Resolution (Horizontal): 1920 x 1080 (minimum) to 4K (maximum)
• Resolution (Vertical): 1080 x 1920 (minimum) to 4K (maximum)
• Frame rate: 24, 25, 29.97, 30 fps or higher
• Maximum file size: 4GB

Compress each Video into separate zip files

Accepted file format & video codec:

Without Alpha Channel	With Alpha Channel
H.264 (.mov / .mp4)	Quicktime PNG (.mov) Quicktime Animation (.mov)

Video Previews of Elements will be auto-generated by our system

Quality 

Our buyers mostly purchase Stock Footage to be used in their video edits, and will eventually be further encoded and compressed into different formats.

Therefore, please ensure that your video is of the best quality possible, so your clips have a higher chance of being sold.

If your clips are compressed, please note we will reject any files that do not meet the following minimum bitrates.

Resolution	Minimum Video Bitrate
2160p (4K)	35 Mbps
1440p (2K)	16 Mbps
1080p	8 Mbps

The above bitrate information only serves as a guide.

If you do need to compress your video file, we recommend a bitrate of 1.5 to 2 times the above bitrate.

Please also note that footage with higher frame rate and/or higher dynamic range should also have much higher bitrate.

Vertical videos

• Recommended keywords: "Vertical", "Social Media", and keywords that the footage can be used for eg. "Facebook", "Instagram"

VR 360° videos

Requirements:

• Video codec: H.264 (.mp4)
• Duration: 3 to 120 seconds
• Frame rate: 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 60 fps
• Mono 2D videos should be 2:1 aspect ratio with a resolution of 2048 x 1024 (minimum) to 4096 x 2048 (maximum).
• Stereo 3D videos should be 1:1 aspect ratio with a resolution of 2048 x 2048 (minimum) to 4096 x 4096 (maximum).
• Maximum file size: 4GB

Compress each Video into separate zip files

VR 360° elements support mono 2D and stereo 3D 360° photos and videos:

Mono 2D uses one single pano

Stereo 3D uses 2 stacked panos

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Step 1: Prepare

Tips to achieve good video sales:

• Provide a model release if a human or personally identifiable body part is visible
• Provide a property release if a building, landmark is significantly visible
• Avoid commercial logos and trademarks
• Shoot simple videos in clean backgrounds, so that buyers can add their own text supers, composite with other footages, or edit into their sequences easily

Tips to achieve good animation sales:

• Provide animation with alpha channel layers, so that buyers can easily composite
• Provide easily loopable animations

Step 2: Upload

https://www.motionelements.com/artist/upload

How to upload files