The reimagined monthly subscription offers assets for music, stock footage, sound effects, templates, and custom plugins.
Video asset portal Artlist has announced what it’s describing as the “ultimate all-in-one subscription for video creators.” Dubbed “Artlist Max,” the new monthly membership will give users access to royalty-free music, sound effects, stock footage, templates, plugins, and FX Home editing software optimized for Artlist’s catalog of media assets.
Let's take a deeper look.
New Age for Stock Assets?
“Artlist Max is a great option for creators like me who constantly need access to a lot of different assets,” said IMHO Reviews founder Vitaliy Lano. “However, if you are just looking for specific assets, you will still be able to purchase separate subscriptions such as stock footage and video templates or music and SFX,”
Founded in 2016, Artlist began as a royalty-free music platform for content creators looking to navigate the complicated minefield of using music for online video. Within the next six years, the portal has grown to manage over 800,000 digital assets and has expanded to include video stock footage (through its sister site Artgrid), music, sound effects, as well as templates, motion graphics, and other video assets through its partnership with FX Home.
Artlist Max promises unlimited access to all these media assets and custom plugins for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Apple FinalCut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and other video editing apps. In the modern world, where digital content creation is the foundation for big brands and small creatives, stock assets are becoming a critical aspect of any project.
Which Tier Is Right for you?
The new Artlist service is divided into multiple tiers, which provide a varying degree of access to individuals, teams, and enterprise levels. Let's look at them in more detail to find out which one is best for your needs.
- Max Social: For $29.99, Artlist Max Social provides content creators who focus on social media assets custom-fitted to such portals as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and even Podcasts. The license offers users the right to publish to one channel for each portal and link to them in their advertising. The Max Social Plan also gives users access to FXHome’s HitFilm Creator editing software.
- Max Pro: $39.99. For $10 a month more, the Artlist Max Pro plan will provide all access to the Max Social features, plus worldwide commercial work, websites, film broadcasting rights, wedding videos, and other features. Members will be able to upgrade their stock footage to RAW/Log footage for an additional $19.92 a month.
- Max Teams: Starting at $68.00 a month, the Artlist Max Team plan will cover access to the Max Pro tier for between two to seven team members.
- Max Enterprise: The Artlist Max Enterprise Tier provides assets for large companies with over 100 employees and includes everything in Max Pro, plus custom media licenses and curation services. As in the past, those interested in this tier must contact Artlist for a custom rate.
While subscription plans aren't always the best options long-term, especially if you're not turning a profit on your projects, if you're pumping out content at a regular pace, Artlist Max is a solid solution that creatives should really look into.
All media assets and licenses are usable for the duration of the subscription. Artlist also offers a free one-year subscription to the first 100 creators who sign up for a free Artlist Account.
So what do you think? Is yet another subscription service dipping into your wallet every month of benefit for access to an unlimited number of media, sound, and musical assets?
Or is this an Adobe killer?
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Look, I have a Hitfilm tutorial channel, moderated their forum, moderated two FB groups, have made more posts and answered more user questions on Hitfilm related social media than anyone else in the world (and, sadly, can prove it), AND was an FXhome brand Ambassador for seven years, plus I have an email from a senior FXhome Staff member noting I possibly understand Hitfilm better than anyone outside FXhome - that ends my claims of expertise in this matter - and I REALLY don't like saying this, but, I see no tiers offering Hitfilm Pro - which means, at best, teams are being offered a half-assed version of the software.
There is Imerge to sweeten the deal. Imerge, FXhome's image editing software, is unique in being able to save out a layered project as a Hitfilm Composite Shot with all layers intact and editable masks and effects - which makes an Imerge/Hitfilm combo quite useful in preparing matte paintings and set extensions. But Imerge is nowhere near as capable as Photoshop, or even free options like Krita or GIMP. If not being used to round-trip assets to Hitfilm, it's not going to be anyone's first choice.
No, wait, one other thing I love Imerge for - it's 4 to 10 times faster at merging HDR brackets than On1 PhotoRaw, Affinity or Photomatix. I shoot a lot of HDR and use Imerge to combine my brackets and save EXR before Photomatix processing. Does save a lot of time.
But aside from those two use cases, I reach for other software. I'm more likely to use HitFilm Pro for photo editing than Imerge. (Hitfilm Pro can import and process 32-bit EXR.)
Now, I love Hitfilm - I just renewed my Pro license for 2023 - but in the last 18 months development has slowed to a crawl with only one exciting feature - grade clips in Hitfilm's editor (think "Adjustment layers" Adobe guys), while Hitfilm still lacks basic features like Markers, suitable handling of multichannel audio, clip grouping, nesting editor timelines, etc. Hitfilm once had a few exciting features that gave some advantages over Adobe - like being able to import and use 3D models without expensive 3rd party ads ons and a pretty good particle sim - but those features haven't been updated in years and have been surpassed by the recent C4D integration and recent editions of Trapcode.
Hitfilm (and remember, I love the software) looked for awhile like a serious Adobe challenger, but, unless development picks up again to more of the 2018-2021 dev cycle where updates with useful new features were coming out every three months, Hitfilm has just fallen behind where it needs to be.
15 minutes of browsing the Artlist site looking at templates shows almost all of them are for Adobe software. Artlist isn't even paying their staff to port over their own templates to their "own" software, which reads like Artlist lacking confidence in their own purchase.
For $30 a month I can see the value in the stock media for a single-channel YouTube creator, with the benefit of a half-version of Hitfilm (just don't try to use the templates), but the value is actually better for an Adobe User - who can take advantage of the templates and the plug in effects.
If $30 a month is in your budget for a stock subscription, cool. The software doesn't really add any value. There are cheaper video stock library alternatives and Audiio seems to offer a $150 lifetime license deal a couple of times a year (I have that). Artlist Max is an "all in one" solution, but nothing offered is top tier.
It's no Adobe killer.
December 15, 2022 at 3:43PM