 Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here for today's video I'm gonna be taking a look at pexels and showing you guys how to Upload video content onto their newly designed and very very slick looking website now firstly Why would you want to put stock video up on pexels? What's in it for you as a creator now? To be honest, it's more here's here's my philosophy I do sell some stock video on pond 5. It's a nice little site hustle It's I sell I think a couple of clips on a good month right now. It's very small, but you know Every little helps pays for beer pizza and microphones now and again So it's a nice little thing to do and sometimes if I have really good Stuff, um, I'll go ahead and put that up there now pexels is a is a free stock library for photos and videos and I use pexels quite regularly For my work, which is in marketing communications. I'm talking about my day job I use it for my youtube video sometimes if I need Less so the stock video, but sometimes the stock photography. So I use pexels. It's free I don't need to be signed up for commercial library and honestly the reason I put up stuff on pexels Myself is to kind of give back to that ecosystem a bit because you know, it's not good to be just just to be a taker so pexels is primarily for video, but it is also a stock video library And recently I was you know going through my computer trying to clean up a bit of space Seeing if there was anything that was potentially resellable Or if not that might be fine for pexels and I came across a few clips And when I did I said why look at this they have done a they have done a nice job Rolling out a very slick new interface, you know, sometimes when You log into google and They've like changed some buttons and it feels like sometimes for Luddites like me that the only reason you the ux design profession exists is to Piss people like me off. You don't like their cheese being moved very much Um, but this is actually a really good example of I think a great redesign It's a lot better than it was before and I thought I'd uh take season the opportunity to Um show you guys how to do it if you if you have a few clips So this is the uploader so you need to set up an account and I just want to quickly Run through these on behalf of the good people at pexels because uh, they did write me back on twitter So firstly, um, it's original content that you have captured now This goes these all apply equally whether you're uploading photos or videos um, so No, no graphic nudity violence or hate Um, I'm gonna upload a video of me cutting an onion from today. So I think we're probably good on that front Here's actually important one that might trip some folks up mindful of the rights of others You must have permission from people and for property depicted in the photos and videos so When you're uploading stock to pond 5 you 4 you technically do need a talent release if you are uploading Video with someone in it right other than yourself. So likewise for uh for pexels you you do need that So that's a very easy one to kind of accidentally fall in breach of so be be aware of that And just this is you know, there it's like ron seal. It does what it says on the tin They're letting you know now It's going to be downloaded and used for free And it's going to be licensed under the pexels license It's always not a bad idea to scrutinize the small print that no one ever bothers looking into Especially when like pexels, they've done a really good job at making it, you know less jargonian more intelligible So they kind of highlight the main points all the photos and videos on pexels are free So you're not making money from pexels. There is actually a donate functionality It's it's appreciated for people using pexels stuff to Link to their creator or to attribute them, but it's not required very important It's courteous, but not required as it's written here attribution is not required It's always appreciated, but it's not required. Okay And folks can modify so if you're looking at this under the creative commons or cc licenses Uh people who know more about that can tell me which one this is but that is it is you are granting permission for folks using your video To modify the video that they get from pexels and likewise you as someone using it can do that, right? And there's some stuff that they protect you against as the creator sharing stuff Uh through it so you can sell unaltered copies so someone can't Uh download or there technically would be a breach of pexels if they were to download the wonderful video of Me cutting up some onions. I'm about to show and put on a premiere of Daniel's onion cutting expedition or sell that on pond five, which would be very very sneaky That would be not culture. Okay, so you are protected. So let me just show you guys what I'm gonna do now I'm gonna open up to my computer if it will ever wake up here and uh I'm just gonna get a random video from my shoot this morning with some onions Is a cooking video for a bit of fun a bit of variety on my youtube channel And right here's a video this one of this one of this has no commercial potential No one wants to see this video of me cutting a white onion, but you never know for pexels I do try to keep it, you know, not set not put up terrible stuff As a courtesy and I think probably they're to us, but you know, you never know That's the thing about these stock libraries and sometimes I type in the most obscure Queries into pexels like, you know, uh, I can't think of any samples right now, but um, that's kind of the principle or reciprocity That you're helping other people. Maybe they're making Documentaries, maybe they're just you know for a social post you're helping them find something So this could be a pexels video of cutting knife cutting into into White onion two one three nine in my clip library. So I'm going to go and upload this to pexels now I'm not going to read through all the stuff. I just did and I'm going to just drag and drop now this functionality Is brand spanking new as of about two weeks. You get to see it. I'm going to put myself down here You get to see it creaking up. This is what it's like folks to run a youtube channel with a uh four Megabyte per second or megabit, whatever it is internet connection. It is painful They don't have fdp upload, which is something I used to find kind of an irritating but Um, this new drag and drop uploader is a lot better the old one I did find would break sometimes or choke on uploads and you'd have you'd be trying to keep uploading and it just wouldn't work So it looks like they really have done some improvements. So while that's going on because we're about halfway through Here's how it works video. You don't have to fill out quite as many fields as you do on pond five, which is nice I'm just going to call it a knife I'm going to be descriptive because when people come looking for Stock clips are looking for something specific usually. So I'm going to say knife cutting cutting white onion on chopping board. I'm going to do this tags knife kitchen knife onion white onion you get me And uh sometimes pexels run these front page challenges. So if uh, there are any they'll populate here And you can also enter a location if it's something location specific here. It's not now something they've introduced in their recent UI overhaul is this these nice little copy paste things So, um, even though they don't have fdp Which would be nice. I'm just saying pexels Um, they do allow you to copy and paste tags. So for example, if I'm uploading You know a few different shots from let's say the empire state building I can copy instead of having each time skyscraper new york Empire state building you can copy those tags across so they've made it easier for folks to share Their stock photos and videos for free And again, as I said, I don't think we all have to pay mortgages or you have to pay rent I don't put all my stuff on pexels But anything I can put on pexels that I think might be useful to someone I put on pexels Alrighty, so we should be good now Um, and by the way, the video must not contain clips or musics you downloaded or is from someone else And now you can click on submit content and then you have a little waiver thing here You only uploaded photos and videos that you on the you don't need to read this every time That you own the copyright to and that you created myself Indeed that was me the real thing chopping an onion and any depicted people or owners or depicted property Gave you the permission to publish the photos and videos So I did ask the onion if he was okay being on pexels and he said that's cool understand and agree submit content and that is should be it and um now the content's being uploaded There's there's a bit of a lag uh regarding videos because they it looks like to me they go through Vimeo And then they get embedded so i'm just going to pause this video here and see if I can find it on my profile now So my onion video is being processed in the background, but i'll just show you some stuff I have put up now. These are not prize-winning photos or videos But um, I do like my little on air sign and I thought it might be useful I tagged it like you know home video recording studio And i'm just going to filter here on my videos to show you what they look like for other folks I thought this is quite a nice one actually of uh whales I took when I was out well-watching earlier this summer And as you can see uh for those familiar with Vimeo It's definitely a Vimeo thing Uh, this is just a few seconds of water not the most steady footage But you do get a little share link that you can share to with your community More info gives you so three folks that one person downloaded it. That's better than zero You get to see your dimensions aspect ratio frames per second duration And you can delete the video if you've decided after the fact that you want to um That you want to lead us and another cool thing is this integrates I'm going to put myself away for one sec This does integrate with google maps, right? So I didn't add a location tag and in retrospect it was in provincetown massachusetts Well off the coast of that rather Um, so you can then save that location and add it in uh and you can also update your tags So that's pretty much it guys in terms of uh pexels from the Creator side how to share stuff. They've done a good job really good job In fact with that nice new interface and you know if you have stock that you know, you're not you don't you You don't need you're not going to be putting it up on a commercial stock marketplace Because then you'd be in breach of their terms of conditions because you're selling it for free on pexels So keep your pexel stuff for pexels and your commercial stuff If you are a commercial stock seller separately and help the creative community to increase their stock Photo photo and video library. Thank you guys for watching this video as ever And if you do want to subscribe for more, please subscribe to this youtube channel. Have a great day