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Stock Video Title Checker
Paste the title you would put on a clip and see, field by field, whether Adobe Stock, Pond5 and Shutterstock take it as written, or where it gets cut, stripped of a comma, or rejected outright.
Type or paste a title to check it.
Why the same sentence hits different limits
Adobe reads the title straight off the file, embedded as XMP, and the portal field behind it holds at most 200 characters with no comma. Pond5 is the tightest: its own title field, and its catalogue export, both cap out at exactly 80 characters. Shutterstock has no title field at all. The same sentence goes in as the description instead, and the CSV import that carries it there states 200 characters as its own maximum.
A title built to satisfy the smallest of the three, Pond5, will always fit the other two as well. That is why this checker shows all three at once rather than one at a time: the title that reads best is the one written for wherever it lands, not just for the platform you happened to be looking at.
Markup and language matter as much as length
A title carrying a "<" or a ">" has broken real listings before: one page showed no title and no description at all after a stray angle bracket reached it, and another marketplace pulled the character into moderation as if it were part of the title itself. Every marketplace field is meant to show plain text, and this checker flags it before it goes anywhere.
Language matters too. Every marketplace shows a title in English, whatever the footage was filmed in and whatever the clip was first titled in. A title that reads as French, checked here by counting the small function words a translation cannot avoid ("le", "des", "depuis") against their English equivalents, is exactly the kind of thing that reaches a live listing unnoticed if nothing reads it before a marketplace does.
Quick tips
- Write to Pond5’s 80 characters first: a title that fits there fits Adobe and Shutterstock’s description without any more cutting.
- Skip the comma if the same title has to go to Adobe: it strips them from the field it writes into the file.
- Write the title in English, not a literal translation from notes taken on location. Two French words that slip through are enough to flag it.
- Keep angle brackets and stray markup characters out, even ones meant as a stylistic dash or arrow.
Limits
What this tool cannot check
- This only reads the text you paste. It cannot see the clip itself, so it cannot tell whether the title actually matches what is in the frame.
- Getty’s title limit is not in our sources.
- The 200-character Shutterstock number matches the CSV import dialog’s own tips table; the description field behind it accepts more, but the import path this checker mirrors does not.
Want the full picture? Read how embedded XMP carries a title and keywords straight to Adobe.