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Finding free stock footage clips to meet your online video production needs is not always an easy task, but lucky for you I have spent time and resources to compile a list of the best resources online for free video stock footage.
Photo credit: Robin Good
The goal of this MasterNewMedia guide is to save you from purchasing quality (and expensive) DVD catalogs of stock video footage and bring to your knowledge all the best venues on the Internet where you can find beautiful clips (even in HD video quality) to complement your video projects.
All stock video clips that you will find in this guide are either:
- Completely free to download and use,
- royalty-free (pay one-time rights to download and then use as you see fit),
- under the public domain (not covered by intellectual property rights at all)
Video stock footage opens great opportunities for those wanting to produce professionally-looking videos while staying on a budget.
Here is a curated and updated selection of online free stock footage resources to get you started immediately:
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Rocket Clips
Rocket Clips is an online royalty-free stock videos resource dedicated to people, lifestyle, business, and recreation that allows you to find stock footage for personal and commercial purposes. You need to register on http://www.thoughtequity.com/, the platform which hosts the videos on Rocket Clips before buying any videos..
All stock videos are available in high, medium and low definition, WMV and FLV files, NTSC and PAL systems.
http://www.rocketclips.com/
Always HD
AlwaysHD is an online resource devoted to empower all video publishers out there with royalty-free stock videos. You can buy any stock videos you like and also you can download one free HD video clip every week. Registration is mandatory to buy and download the video clips from AlwaysHD.
All videos are available in HD, MOV video file format and PhotoJPEG files. To find and download stock footage on AlwaysHD, just use the search field or browse freely through the video collections.
http://www.alwayshd.com/
Wildform
Wildform is a web-based royalty-free stock video repository where you can buy and download videos to use for your personal and commercial projects [avoid this last sentence, as it is overused]. All videos are available in AVI format (320x240, 30fps) and broadcast definition. Registration is mandatory.
To find and download videoclips on Wildform, you can use the free search or browse through the categories. The stock footage prices range from $10 to $120.
http://www.wildform.com/products/videolibrary/
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