licensing pricing

1. waterfallrich
   Member

   

    Greetings everyone - new member here. I own a website about waterfalls in North Carolina and surrounding areas with pictures, info, and short low quality video clips (Digital 8). I sell prints and license images as a part time business and have been asked several times if I license video. Right now I don't, but am considering updating to a HDV camcorder and offering clips for licensing. There are pricing guides for licensing images, but I haven't found anything for licensing video. Are there books or online guides to help with pricing?? Thanks for any help you can offer.

   Rich Stevenson

   Posted 4 years ago #

2. Ken
   Member

   

    waterfallrich,

   A company called Creatas has been advertising royalty-free stock footage in the video industry magazines.  I just now took a look at their web page, http://www.creatas.com .  They want from $200 to $300 per video clip!!!  Some hi-def, some standard-def. Would you pay $200 for a 13 second clip of a kid eating cotton candy?  Probably not, but they do have some hard-to-get clips, like inside a NASA control room.  It would be less expensive to buy that, rather than to schedule, travel, and shoot a video clip at NASA.

   Ken Hull

   Posted 4 years ago #

3. faqvideo
   Member

   

   Check http://www.istockphoto.com. They have been one of the biggest "affordable" photo stock agencies. Now they broker stock video as well. Their pricing policies may give you an idea.

   Shoot-It-Yourself Wedding Video Guide 

   Shoot-It-Yourself Wedding Video Guide, http://www.faqvideo.com/siy_book

   Posted 4 years ago #

4. waterfallrich
   Member

   

   Thanks for the leads, guys!

   Posted 4 years ago #

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