Posts by Blinn

People buy stuff if they want it enough to pay the price. My job as an author is to make stuff that people want. Envato’s job is to do all the other stuff. As long as someone takes care of most of the less-fun stuff that comes with making items for sale, I’m happy to split some of the money with Envato. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have a place that meets the needs of little guys like me.

infuse01 said

Blinn said
Assume I know nothing about the Envato Bundle when I say this, because I don’t:

Envato is growing rapidly and more and more people are becoming authors. I think it would be nice to have more people featured over a shorter time span rather than letting a few very well-established authors get all the attention. Even if one of my files was in the bundle for only a week, there are other authors that would like to have their files in the bundle too.

Also, I’ve noticed the number of complains go up dramatically since I joined. Why not focus less on what the staff is doing and more on your own files? Envato fills a void in the online marketplace because it rewards us authors for starting small. It’s not perfect, but it sure saves most of us the hassle of having to start our own website and do our own marketing to generate sales; Envato does that for us.

So whenever something doesn’t go your way, think how nice it is just to have a website where you can actually sell your own stuff without having to do anything like website maintenance and advertising. Once again, Envato takes care of that for us, letting us authors freely do what we do best.

Is it possible that you’re still very young? Don’t get me wrong – i like your attitude and how you think things are working but to be honest thats not the reality. In our society nowadays, including our business it would not only be careless, it would be absolutely wrong to not say anything.

Of course it is nice to have a place where you can sell your staff. That is also the reason why every author pays a % fee on every single sale. And I feel that the relationship between authors and envato needs to be renewed. There are countless threads where authors are “begging” about some small improvements, not to mention all the threads where many authors are having an on-going discussion about how this place can be improved. It IS important that you say your opinion and take care over yourself otherwise the chance that you get ripped off is simply to high. Not saying that anyone here is ripping one another but you know what I mean.

Back to the start – maybe you’re not as young as I thought, but I see you’re coming from audiojungle. Probably they have another opinion in general about those things. On the other hand the developers who puts months of hard work into their items for themeforest or codecanyon can’t take it that easy.

While I am fortunate enough to work on files that don’t take a lot of time to make, I have had my fair share of rejections. I’ve never dealt with themeforest or codecanyon, so I can only imagine the frustration authors feel when months of hard work gets rejected by a staff member. I’d be mad as well but I wouldn’t post a thread to take it out on the staff, much less complain that Envato cares more about money than the authors. We all need money to live in today’s world and Envato needs a lot more money than most people just to maintain the business. I believe companies should make a profit; it pays the bills and people get rewarded for pursuing that business. Where would Envato be if it didn’t have enough money to continue funding itself? What would happen if it couldn’t pay us authors anymore for the money we all make? That’d be a nightmare nobody wants to deal with.

That said though, if I see a problem, I’ll post about it, but my intention will be to help Envato become a better place, rather than perpetuate the apparent gloom and doom I see on many threads these days.

Assume I know nothing about the Envato Bundle when I say this, because I don’t:

Envato is growing rapidly and more and more people are becoming authors. I think it would be nice to have more people featured over a shorter time span rather than letting a few very well-established authors get all the attention. Even if one of my files was in the bundle for only a week, there are other authors that would like to have their files in the bundle too.

Also, I’ve noticed the number of complains go up dramatically since I joined. Why not focus less on what the staff is doing and more on your own files? Envato fills a void in the online marketplace because it rewards us authors for starting small. It’s not perfect, but it sure saves most of us the hassle of having to start our own website and do our own marketing to generate sales; Envato does that for us.

So whenever something doesn’t go your way, think how nice it is just to have a website where you can actually sell your own stuff without having to do anything like website maintenance and advertising. Once again, Envato takes care of that for us, letting us authors freely do what we do best.

Oh yeah…well common sense is on vacation for me half the time, so it’s good to know for sure now. Thanks

Thanks for the answers.

Now copying someone else’s work like that is something I never plan on doing at all. I just didn’t know where the line was when selling sounds recorded and mixed from computer-based sources.

@ Adammonroe – That’s where the confusion is with sound effects. I can record the sound of me clapping my hands, but what about recording something like thunder from say… a youtube video of some guy filming a storm, and then mixing it into something completely different, such as a magical spell sound or something very different from the source sound?

Art-of-Sound said

Blinn said
can you record raw sound from a computer source, such as as youtube video, modify it, then sell it? Would it be treated the same way as foley?

Recording of an existing recording is not foley.
If a computer source, such as as youtube video is copyrighted and can be identified in your work, you can get yourself in trouble. Even if you distort it beyond recognition, some sound recordings nowadays contain inaudible digital fingerprints embedded into the waveform. You don’t hear it, so you don’t know it’s there, but running a software check reveals who it really belongs to.

Even if you record the sound being played, distorting it, and then exporting it as another file?

So, what’s the difference between foley and just basically copying another sound? Both are done through recordings.

Long-story short, can you record raw sound from a computer source, such as as youtube video, modify it, then sell it? Would it be treated the same way as foley?

I would like the ratings to be visible only to the authors. That way, they know where they need to improve without worrying about people judging the item by its rating, and potentially hurting sales.

Nice work.