Parking your .r3d files. A new take on the stock footage market.

[Brian Przypek]

I'm fishing to gauge interest so bare with me.
Its obvious to all of us that theatrical projection (and home theater projection for that matter) is moving toward 4k.
Sony just announced a line of 4k home projectors.
And its equally as obvious that 4k content will be in demand as this inevitable progression occurs.
We all know that the big guns in the stock footage market have not kept up. (Getty does not offer 4k footage)
What I am proposing is searchable 4k/5k (.r3d) image bank.
Meaning a cloud facility where you can upload your footage and tag it so it is searchable.
Low res. watermarked versions can be viewed by visitors.
If a visitor is interested in the footage they can contact you directly.
There would be a small monthly fee depending on storage needs, (100 gig chunks) to have your footage available to potential clients, in a central secure location.
In essence off-site, safe, backup files, that could generate additional income, in a non-exclusive framework (unlike the Getty's of the world).

I'm curious to here feedback.

 

[mikeburton]

You should check out ArtBeats, MammothHD, and Digital Juice. They all use and shoot RED ONE and Epics and sell R3D's as well. Not great to generalize that these "Big Guns" aren't keeping up. They are very well aware of the demand for 4K and have been working in this fashion for a long while now, as long as RED has been shipping cameras. Many of us already have lots of stock R3D's in their current libraries and they are huge libraries of 4K content.

 

[Andrew Walker]

Brian, as Mike pointed out there are plenty of guys out there already offering 4K and 5K footage. So if you were to get into the game of selling stock footage on a site you would be getting into the game pretty late. You might just make more as a shooter and have your footage reped on of the sites. Most people aren't ready for 4K. Clients that I've had that wanted 4K content have come from Getty and they know if they need something higher than what Getty offers to talk with the company that owns the clips.

 

[Thomas Pohl]

What I am proposing is searchable 4k/5k (.r3d) image bank.

I'm curious to here feedback.

Hi Brian,

we are specialized on RED RAW R3Ds. See for youself: http://www.footage-online.com

Cheers
Thomas.

 

[Steve Gibby]

Artbeats has been representing my Red 5k, 4k, and 3k footage for years now - and has done an excellent job of it. I recommend them highly - big staff, great people, prompt service, excellent marketing, etc. Some of my Red camera footage library can be previewed in low resolution versions on the Artbeats Gibby Red Collection link in my signature below.

I have about 30 TB of Red camera footage in my stock footage library now - including a 1 TB "best of" collection which is currently available for complete rights buyout.

Brian: your cloud based preview system idea has a lot of merit though. IMO that will inevitably be the future structure of most of the stock footage and stock stills industry.

 

[Phil Bates]

Thanks Steve! I concur that Getty has been slow with 4K but we've been shooting it exclusively for over 4 years now (plus 5K now). We've also represented other 4K libraries for almost as long.

Phil