Recommended workflow-way to manage exports for stock sites

Dear All,
Is there an efficient workflow - way that someone came up with, that could recomend to manage exports for stock site photography easily?
The main problem, is that if you upload 10 images for instance, to 3 different sites you most propably will face different accepted images and different rejected from each site.
Then you have to modify adjustments to reupload the rejected images for a second try, or even a third one.
And this is the exact point where the problem occures.
There must be an efficient way to have in different folders (or smart albums or whatever) the same images with different status (rejected or accepted for instance, or red or green or whatever) and at the same time those images with differenet settings (those you had to make in order to get images accepted) keep also in mind that the images may also have different keywords aswell (in case an image gets rejected due to keywording).
Its important to mention that in the end, the folders must match the real status of the images at the stocksite submitted, regarding state (accepted or not) and of course settings.(its important in the end to know that in site ''A'' you have exactly those images and in site ''B'' the others, and so on.)
Its more than sure that those 3 different folders (or smart albums or whatever) will eventually have the same images, but most of them will have different status, settings and keywords.
The only way i found to manage it, is by creating export folders using virtual copies at the publish services section of LR. Note that for publish services i used my hard drive.
But the drawbacks of this way are:
1. You double - triple (depending the stock site number) files (at least they are virtual ones)
2. When an image is rejected from a stock site and you mark the coresponding image as ''marked for republish'' even thow in lr it is clear which files were rejected and should be edited and republished, in the export folder you cant track them, you must export to a new folder evry time creating double - triple jpg files. I think it would be better if LR could sync automaticaly the folder showing somehow images marked for repubplish.
Sorry for long post, but how could it be smaller????
Thanks in advanced.
Vasilis

The point of Publish is not that the image disappears afterwards, but that it remains there afterwards, after moving between the categories into which the publish window is divided. IIRC you can collapse the parts you are not interested in... (?) I don't have LR in front of me just now. Pictures then move categories again, the moment you make further changes. It's an ongoing relationship between the Catalog and the publish location, and you use Publish when this is what you want.
It is not very easy AFAICT to terminate this relationship, using the built-in Publish function, without also marking the externally published file for removal. However some 3rd-party LR plugins offering a Publish facility, can do this for you cleanly.
Personally, I have concluded that the standard one-off (but repeatable, via named preset) Export inherently meets my needs better than Publish does, for this very reason - and have therefore ducked fully dealing with this Publish life-cycle issue. So often, a change is made to an image which is not really substantive and does not justify re-publishing.
But I definitely suggest looking into plugins, if you like the idea of Publish but find it restrictive currently, including (in no particular order and not comprehensive)
http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies
http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAndServices/PublishServiceAssistantLrPlugin/

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Oracle Version :
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
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Plan hash value: 3970072279
| Id | Operation                                | Name         | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                         |              |     1 |   194 | 4567   (2)| 00:00:55 |
|* 1 | HASH JOIN                               |              |     1 |   194 | 4567   (2)| 00:00:55 |
|* 2 |   HASH JOIN                              |              | 8168 |   287K|   695   (3)| 00:00:09 |
|   3 |    VIEW                                  |              | 8168 |   103K|    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |     COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|              | 8168 | 16336 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |      FAST DUAL                           |              |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   6 |    TABLE ACCESS FULL                     | TG_FILE      |   565K|    12M|   659   (2)| 00:00:08 |
|   7 |   TABLE ACCESS FULL                      | TG_FILE_DATA |   852K|   128M| 3863   (1)| 00:00:47 |
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        524 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
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INDEX_NAME                     BLEVEL LEAF_BLOCKS DISTINCT_KEYS CLUSTERING_FACTOR     NUM_ROWS SAMPLE_SIZE
TG_FILE_PK                          2        2160        552842             21401       552842      285428
TG_FILE_DATA_PK                     2        3544        852297             61437       852297      852297 Ideally the view should have used NESTED LOOP, to use the indexes since the no. of rows coming from object collection is only 2.
But it is taking default as 8168, leading to HASH join between the tables..leading to FULL TABLE access.
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Plan hash value: 1670128954
| Id | Operation                                 | Name            | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                          |                 |     1 |   194 | 29978   (1)| 00:06:00 |
|   1 | NESTED LOOPS                             |                 |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                            |                 |     1 |   194 | 29978   (1)| 00:06:00 |
|   3 |    NESTED LOOPS                           |                 | 8168 | 1363K| 16379   (1)| 00:03:17 |
|   4 |     VIEW                                  |                 | 8168 |   103K|    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |      COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|                 | 8168 | 16336 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   6 |       FAST DUAL                           |                 |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   7 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID           | TG_FILE_DATA    |     1 |   158 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 8 |      INDEX UNIQUE SCAN                    | TG_FILE_DATA_PK |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 9 |    INDEX UNIQUE SCAN                      | TG_FILE_PK      |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 10 |   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID             | TG_FILE         |     1 |    23 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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        524 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
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Thanks Tubby,
While searching I had found out that we can use CARDINALITY hint to set statistics for TABLE funtion.
But I preferred not to say, as it is currently undocumented hint. I now think I should have mentioned it while posting for the first time
http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=427
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i.e. cardinality and opt_estimate are taking the default set value
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| Id | Operation                             | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                      |      |     5 |    10 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 | COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|      |     5 |    10 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   FAST DUAL                           |      |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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Plan hash value: 4043204977
| Id | Operation                              | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                       |      |     5 |   485 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 | VIEW                                  |      |     5 |   485 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|      |     5 |    10 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    FAST DUAL                           |      |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                      |      |     2 |     4 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 | COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|      |     2 |     4 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   FAST DUAL                           |      |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Note
   - dynamic sampling used for this statement (level=2)I will be testing the last option "Extensible Optimizer" and put my findings here .
I hope oracle in future releases, improve the statistics gathering for collections which can be used in DML and not just use the default block size.
By the way, are you aware why it uses the default block size ? Is it because it is the smallest granular unit which oracle provides ?
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his iPhone
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We also want to have our own iMessages on our iPhones, plus be able to use the account with the cards on them to purchase and share across devices...
What's the best way to manage them all?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
iTunes is straight forward, just use the same ID on all of them.
What exactly do you want to see in messages on the Mac and iPad, messages combined from each of your phones or a different account just for both of you.
You should think about what you want in calendars, contacts etc, on your shared devices.

What's the best way to export for print?

I usually upload images to my local photoprinting shop. What's the best way to do that with Lightroom? Since lightroom does the final sharpening in the print module, how do I get that into the exported file since there is no export function in the print module? Also, how do I get the proper dpi and sizing info into the photo for the print shop? Thanks.

There is no good way to prepare images for printing from a file from a commercial printer by using Lightroom alone. You need to do an export of the image without any resizing or color space conversion, and then use some other program of your choice to 'finish' the file.
It's just plain missing functionality... Lightroom assumes that you will be printing photos yourself and it is missing a whole lot of stuff in order to support external printing, including:
a) Resize to exact pixel dimensions. Many labs require an exact pixel count for a given print size, so for example for an 8x10 they need a 2400 x 3000 pixel image. Can't be done in Lightroom.
b) Trim adjustment. If you are doing full bleed photos (no margin), you might need to provide about 0.05 inch of 'trim space' to compensate for image loss during printing. Can't be done in Lightroom.
c) Exporting to a specific printer profile. Can't be done.
d) Adding margins, text, etc. Many times my clients want a 1/4 inch margin in their photos to facilitate framing, or I put a dim watermark type text in the bottom corner. Can't be done.
My solution. Do most processing in Lightroom, do an export, and then do a second export via qImage on a PC. It does all of the above plus much more. It's just a matter of using the right tool for the job, and LIghtroom has no facilities at all for printing to a file.
I have been asking for "Print to File" ever since I was under NDA during the betas.

Exporting a HD clip lossless for stock footage.

Hi all,
I want to start submiting some of my archive footage to a stock site. I want to trim the clips in FCP but not sure the best way to export them without losing any quality. Its HD footage at 1920 x 1080 (Pal).
Any advice on the best way to do this would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Simon.

I have experience, both with buying and providing clips. The most common format is Photo JPEG...and it is pretty darn good. If you weren't impressed, you did something wrong. Some people like PhotoJPEG at 75%, but they provide, and I have given them, Photo JPEG at 100%.
Some do ProRes, but that is RARE. Animation too, but also rare, due to file size. H.264 is not unheard of, but is so uncommon that it is barely a blip. I have only seen that format a handful of times.

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