For the contest, only the Video Productions category will count. However, you are more than welcome to submit stock segments for approval. No watermarking on stock segments. For approval, you need to submit 720p files which have virtually nu use from a commercial aspect so risks of having this stolen for commercial reasons is close to 0. The full resolution files are uploaded to our server only after clips are approved.
Those 4K files remain on our server until someone purchases them and downloads.
Yes, stock segments are single shots. I highly recommend grading your footage as well so it stands out a lot more.
For the artists pages, I unlock them once a person has at least 50 active products on the site. The page serves as a sort of portfolio for artists.
Cheers
Patrice
Fantastic, thanks for the information.
Are there any other considerations for stock footage? Length, specifically? I gather you require all footage be 2K or higher?