Agefotostock have started offering stock video on their site, known for conceptual stock photography I guess they see stock video as a natural expansion to their photo library.
A couple of points that made me question their standards of submissions for video, I did a quick search of a couple of terms I use with all libraries to see what variety they have in areas that I have clips in. I was really surprised to see clearly, logos not only on cars etc but buildings, also recognizable people with no model release, all being licensed as royalty free.
The other area I'm not too thrilled about is the video submission is being held to H.264 as a codec, no motion or photojpeg. I have 1200 clips that are .mov and I don't think I will transcode them as they suggest with Streamclip. The motivation to convert from what every other photo agency accepts to a new video enterprise with little sales is asking a lot, especially as a lot of us have five plus years experience producing stock video clips.
You can read the Agefotostock submission guidelines and make your own opinions
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