 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. For today's video, I want to talk a little bit about creating your stock, your own stock video library, how you might go about doing that, why you might want to do it. So whether you're running a YouTube channel or doing corporate videography, or like me, you're kind of doing a little bit of both, you're probably going to be shooting a decent amount of footage. And most times when you go out for a shot, you're probably going to end up with video clips that can be put into one of three boxes or maybe just one of two boxes. One is voice to camera. So the kind of talking head, intro, outro scenes. The second one might be shots of whatever you're shooting, active shots. And the third might be bureau shots intended to just kind of break up the clip a little bit if there's long talking sections or you're looking to have kind of a framing scene. You might shoot or put in some of your bureau. Now something I find very helpful is after I finish shooting my video, I go through and I edit my video. I'll then kind of leave the video folders sitting there on my computer for a while, maybe for a few weeks. And then periodically, I'll go back through my old video shoots and I'll see if there's anything I might want to keep for stock purposes. If I do find clips that I think have stock potential, I'll put them onto my NAS. And then, and only then, I'll delete the original videos. Now, I personally don't keep all my original clips because most of them are not so incredible. And once you've used them in a video, that's kind of the main use for them. But I do engage in this process of going into my old shoot folders, looking for anything that might be useful to me in the future. So a couple of weeks ago, I was in Ireland and I went to see some interesting things. I went to see a whiskey distillery and I went to see the galley head, which is a wonderful natural lighthouse in Peninsula, West Cork. Now, perhaps in two or three years, let's just say for the sake of argument, you might be putting together a video on the topic of Irish whiskey or amazing lighthouses in Ireland. And you might be very, very grateful to yourself for having kept a couple of those clips of the galley head. So let me just show you guys what my process is kind of roughly. So this is my raw folder here on the desktop computer that I edit my videos on. And what I'll do is, as I said, once every few weeks, I'll go into these folders. And I can just kind of see it first glance. Some of them are informational videos, like Ireland, Israel, that's not gonna have stock potential. But something like if you go into the folder of Nadi, right? Which is a salad bar in Jerusalem. Now, perhaps I might be doing a little video in a month of best restaurants in Jerusalem and this kind of clip of the signage for Nadi, which is gonna open and play here in a second, hopefully. This is not just an amazing clip. It's kind of short, something else like the salad bowl, right? Now, what you're generally looking for when you're trying to identify which clips in a shoot might have stock potential. You want to have ones that are kind of more than a couple of seconds. Ideally, you wanna have stabilized shots and you wanna have things that, again, you can think might be interesting to you in the future. Now, just a couple of words regarding where and how you might want to store and build up your stock video collection. So this is, firstly, the number one destination where I keep my stock is on my NAS. I use the Synology DS920 Plus. It's a really, really fantastic NAS that Synology sent me a couple of years ago when it was brand new on the market and it served me so, so well. So what I do is every time I finish one of my videos, these videos, like this video I'm making for YouTube, I'll firstly go and save the final I put that video onto my NAS. And then about once every month, I use a slightly unusual optical storage media called the M-Disk and I actually create two different copies of my finished videos. One I store in a sort of CD archive box here in my office and the other one I move to an off-site location. So I have an off-site copy of my videos and an on-site copy and the NAS is kind of the intermediate area where I'll put them. Now on my NAS as well, I have a stock folder and I kind of use the same process which is these DVDs, which are basically long-time archival Blu-rays, the M-Disk that I mentioned. They store 25 gigabytes, so I'll wait until I have 25 gigabytes in my stock folder and then I'll create another M-Disk and I'll call it like stock three and I'll write down the dates of stuff it contained. But while I'm building the library, as you can see what I tend to do is just drop in clips occasionally as I'm editing videos like Hardiman Coffee, Old City and then I'll try to organize them into folders at a later point in time. So you can see South of Israel, OA-22, Turkish Coffee Stovetop, Jerusalem, Old City. So I haven't actually put a lot of stock videos into this folder recently, but when I do more videos, gradually this will fill up to 25 and then I'll save it as a disk. Now two more things you can do with stock videos. This is a website called Pawn 5. It's a very popular website for selling your stock video footage. Now Pawn 5 has a really, really nice user interface you can upload over FTP, you can upload over just a web browser and you get a higher cut of the sales if you agree to be like I am an exclusive contributor. So in the past, I have been uploading my stock to Pawn 5. So what I'll do is I'll firstly keep it on my NAS and then I'll duplicate this to Pawn 5 and then some of it does sell, which is nice, but I have to be honest, if I wouldn't get in, recommend getting into stock video for the money because now and again, I don't know if I make like $20 a month off Pawn 5 or $30 a month, but it's definitely not a big money spinner. And to be honest, recently, I just haven't been bothering to put stuff up to Pawn 5 because the amount of stock I generate is small, therefore I don't think I'm ever gonna be have a big enough stock library that's selling, it's gonna really make sense. So another place you can put your stock is this website called Pexels, P-E-X-E-L-S.com. If you haven't heard of it, it's a free open source library and what a lot of people don't know about Pexels, I think is that it's not just for photos, it's also for videos. So I'm gonna go on to my Pexels accounts, this is me here, Daniel Rosel, and in videos, this is just stock stuff that for whatever reason I thought maybe wasn't good enough to put up on Pawn 5 and I put it up on Pexels instead and this is just a little panning shot if I remember of different Palestinian beers and now you can give it a label in Pexels and download it and play it back. So this is another option, the cool thing you can do with Pexels is group stuff into collections. So you can see this is part of a collection here called flying and you might wanna put a collection and call it like flying videos or in-air videos. Now what you're doing when you're uploading stuff to Pexels is that anyone can download it and I actually quite frequently make use of videos on Pexels for my own stock. So it's a nice feeling to be able to kind of give back a little bit to the community by uploading my own stock video like this, video of a guy in the old city pressing orange juice, stuff that's pretty easy for me to film living in Jerusalem but for someone else in a different part of the world they might have a very hard time getting that clip and now I've put up a clip that anyone can download but my point is you can use this for yourself so you can upload your own stuff to Pexels and then wherever you are in the world you don't need to have your NAS tethered next to you. You can go into your Pexel accounts and say, oh yeah, that footage of that little bit of stock of a McDonald's sign I took six months ago, that would be great for this video or the Irish bar or this shot of the train departure sign that I took in the train station. I wanna do a video about trains in Israel and if I could just use that clip again that would be super useful. So this is a clip. So I think that's enough information for getting your own stock library together, having something like an NAS or a home server or even just a dedicated volume on your computer is gonna make it easier. What I recommend doing is my workflows work pretty well for me about every three or four weeks. I'll go back through my original footage reels and I'll pull out anything that has stock potential or I think I might wanna keep later. I'll keep that clip, I'll keep those clips and then I'll delete the original files, store that in the stock folder of my NAS and then regarding what you can do beyond that. Well, if your stock's good enough and you wanna get into selling stock video you can create an account on Pond5 and upload stuff to sale or you can also just upload it to Pexels which is basically a free photo and video library and share it with other creators to enjoy. 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