After announcing their collaboration with Apple on an extension to Final Cut Pro X a short while back, Shutterstock is continuing to refine their service with their new premium tier of video content Shutterstock Select. This new section of Shutterstock promises to be shot by high caliber industry professionals on top notch gear, specifically Phantom and RED cameras, utilizing helicopters and the like, to create the highest quality video content Shutterstock has ever offered. Shutterstock Select will still retain the same pricing structure and stay royalty-free. With stock video services being high in number and very competitive these days, it really isn’t all that surprising they are trying to distinguish themselves from one another. We have written about Filmsupply’s Original Series, where they tried to produce an actual narrative, high production value content, that could be licensed and reused as stock video. Another stock service we reported about is RawFilm, a subscription-based stock service, providing users with footage shot exclusively on RED cameras and in REDCODE RAW. And then there is Adobe Stock, a service that really hit the ground running through their purchase of Fotolia and close integration with the Creative Cloud products. Still from Shutterstock Select footage Particularly the latter point is something that really sets the Adobe software ecosystem apart: currently, there is no parallel to the easiness of both roundtrips between different Adobe software and searching for stock to use in your project from inside the application you are using to work on it. While in Adobe’s...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 13 December, 2018