There are a lot of royalty free video clips sites on the internet, but does anybody have any idea were can I get some clips that show nice offices, rich people, exotic places, and most importantly have this rich look to it!!! Cause I'm having a hard time finding such clips!!!

I actually don't think there are a lot of free video clips on the
internet at all (as you claim). Especially at full resolution / quality.
I haven't ever seen any. Usually you need to buy stock
footage which includes the right to use it in your movies.

yeah that's excatly what I had actually wanted, stock footage

Try a Google search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=exotic+places+stock+footage) as I did. Comes up with some links.
Even some sponsered ones that might be interesting.

There are a 'ton' of royalty-free video offerings out there.

www.artbeats.com
www.timeimage.com

are a couple.

www.thinkstockfootage.com
www.digitaljuice.com
www.dvcuts.com
www.veer.com
www.liquidlibrary.com
www.creatas.com
www.comstock.com

This should get you started.

This link for video footage was posted on another DV users group.
Awesome !

The Prelinger Archives
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php

There's a big difference between free and royalty free, of course. Most are royalty free. They're usually around 100 bucks for a ten second clip, you pay once and can use it either for a year or in perpetuity.
Creatas.com I really like.

http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php


try this.. a lot of good older stuff

That is more than stock footage...that is entertaining! Thanks!!

It occurs to me that this forum could help people share and footage on a cooperative basis.

How about a whole new forum where people can announce what they've got to offer or what they're looking for? We could even commission snippets from each other. I know there's allready something a bit like this but it doesn't seem to be used much. Perhaps rebranding it as "The Swop Shop" or something would help,

For example, I could easily go out and shoot the Palace of Westminster or rolling English countryside but if I want a sunset in the Arizona desert I'd be stuffed.

What do others think?

BTW, why does everyone use the word Royalty, even if they live in a republic?

This has been talked about in several threads. We hesitate to organize such a forum for various reasons relating to possible copyright conflicts. We would have no way of verifying claims of ownership etc. At the present time members just put out a request for footage.

Thanks for taking the time to respond. That sounds reasonable enough.

These are more of abstract clips, but check out the Kick Back Tracks link below my name to check them out.

for those of you interested in free educational films from 1950's to 1980's, check out Rick Prelinger's site., it's awesome! some great campy and ironically-scary sch-tuff!

http://www.prelinger.com

peace-olah, juLiE

I wonder if any of these sites carry
"The Film", as it was fondly nicknamed. It is an "educational" movie shown to all new members of the U.S. military, during WW II and some years therafter. Those who saw it know its content and the chilling effect on personal behavior its makers hoped it would have. It was before my time, but the old-timers in the Army with me, liked to joke about it. I'd really like to see it and find if it was as gruesome as described.

Steve McDonald

hi Steve!

you know, rick prelinger's site (that i posted on here), may actually have that film for download, try his one-page search and if that doesn't work, email him, he's a very nice guy who will most likely repsond back to your question.

and if you can't find that film, there's several other military "educational-propaganda" films there for viewing...it's a trip!

peace-olah, juLiE

I was looking for a bunch of footage myself, and stumbled across Corbis last night - just saw a report on Corbis on The News Hour on PBS.

In any case, I went to Corbis, and downloaded a piece of footage to see what it would be like to mess with it, and it turns out that it was in Quicktime.

Clearly this would not be usable for broadcast quality, but the size of say a 10 second AVI file would probably be way too big for normal downloaded. SO...with all this as prelude, the real question is - how does one get the original footage, or are you stuck with a highly compressed version?

thanks,
Milt Lee

Let me just get this straight...

Under the license agreement with the Prelinger archive, I can download any of their archival footage, pull clips from it, and put it into my own productions, then freely distribute it so long as I give the author credit and do not do it for profit?

Say I download the MPEG2 version of this film: http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=feature_films&collectionid=panorama_ephemera

I am allowed to pull specific clips from it and reuse them in my own works, so long as I follow this license agreement: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/

Considering I can get a hi-res of the film, this seems too good to be true. Can anyone verify/clarify how this footage can be used?

I believe most of the films in the archive go even one step further than you describe - you can't sell the film itself for profit, but you can use the footage to integrate with your project, be it for profit or not.

It's not too good to be true - it's just that most of that stuff was shot using government money, and as such, is public domain. Be sure to check specifically on the licensing of each item though, just to be safe that something proprietary doesn't make its way in there.

The exact quote on usage from the site is:

"You are warmly encouraged to download, use and reproduce these films in whole or in part, in any medium or market throughout the world. You are also warmly encouraged to share, exchange, redistribute, transfer and copy these films, and especially encouraged to do so for free.

Any derivative works that you produce using these films are yours to perform, publish, reproduce, sell, or distribute in any way you wish without any limitations. "

They also have additional footage available with written licensing agreements through Getty Images - but those come at a cost. The hi-res stuff you can download right off their site falls under the free licensing mentioned above.

I'm looking for free chromakey footage, like people walking and talking in front of a blue or green screen.
It can be compressed video, because it's meant to be in the blurred background of a composition.

What would be the best way to shoot file footage.Progressive or interlaced? I mean you wouldnt know where it would end up?

Where do we post messages for the type of footage we're looking for? Or for suggestions/ tips/ alternate methods for creating the footage we need?

Hamad, FootageFirm.com has some nice 15-30 second royalty free clips of the Newport, Rhode Island mansions for only $19.95 each:
http://shop.footagefirm.com/10Browse.asp?Category=Newport+Rhode+Island

Their Cape Cod clips also feature some nice New England mansions for $19.95:
http://shop.footagefirm.com/10Browse.asp?Category=Cape+Cod

Hope this helps,
Joel

I'm new here but can't resist a shameless plug for royatly free footage. Over the last few years I've collected a lot of content from Afghansitan and just last month my company began marketing it online.

One of the big reasons I'm here on this forum now is because some of my customers are looking at us as experts in video editing and I want to stay on top of my game so we can offer value added services to those who use our footage. Some of them just need help in general with editing and technical issues, understanding how they can do things better.

I'll probably be directing some of our customers here to this forum.

Well, as regards a footage exchange, archive.org hosts the Open Source Movie site: http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies

That would be a good place to put footage that you want to share.

Once again the Dv forum comes to the rescue. appreciate all of your contributions and sharing the knowledge.

Rand

istockvideo.com has just begun offering and accpeting SD, HDV and HD footage. Their pool is pretty small at this point but I think their rates and commissions are pretty decent.

We are just beginning to explore working with them and I thought some of you may want to check it out:
www.istockvideo.com

Thanks,
Jeff Schaap
Red Letter Productions

I dont suppose theres any FREE, Full stop is there???

I mean that are good quality......I just havn't got £200 to spend on that sort of stuff when I'm just staring off....

Here's a link for stock footage from Revostock.com.

http://www.revostock.com/SearchResult.html?&CatType=producers&ID=4811

They have video footage, motion backgrounds, music and sound effects for very low prices per clip/song. SoundFX $3, Music $10, NTSC/PAL $15, HDV $20, HD1080 $35. All payable through paypal.

The webpage has a nice layout so you can browse/search by keywords easily and see ranges of clips in a very quick and clean interface. They have over 13000 files so there is a lot of selection.

It's been a great resource for me to grab music and footage.

they all claim Roralty-free, but only try to hook you up. They show you a stamped 160x240 for free, but never free on full resolution clips....

another wonderful site

http://www.pond5.com/index.php?page=main

This link for video footage was posted on another DV users group.
Awesome !

The Prelinger Archives
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php

thanks for that... I think I used it a few years ago for some stock footage while in school to complete a project but had forgotten all about it. I just found some great footage in an old Universal Newsreel for use in my current project in the archives.

It occurs to me that this forum could help people share and footage on a cooperative basis.

How about a whole new forum where people can announce what they've got to offer or what they're looking for? We could even commission snippets from each other. I know there's allready something a bit like this but it doesn't seem to be used much. Perhaps rebranding it as "The Swop Shop" or something would help,

For example, I could easily go out and shoot the Palace of Westminster or rolling English countryside but if I want a sunset in the Arizona desert I'd be stuffed.

What do others think?


Wow, Swap Shop, that takes me back to my childhood, I love it.
Roger I like your way of thinking. There's a lot of us on very low budgets who can not afford Royalty free Stock footage and I think you are on to something there.

I think what Jeff Donald said about copyright would not be a problem if we as the users agreed that this would be copyright free material for what ever purposes we wanted it for.
I would think the bigger problem would be that there would be so much stuff (and some of it, not so good) that the webspace and bandwidth would be more of a problem for dvinfo, especially if this was to be full quality hi def footage. The solution for that could be that we upload small thumbnail previews or limit the size and then contact the user for a full quality download.

"Are any moderators, admin listening"
This is a great idea that Roger is onto here, so please please make this happen. I would be more than happy to supply some footage and it could even inspire me to go out and shoot more stuff.

Maybe we could run a poll on this, see how many people are interested and are willing to supply short clips. It would certainly make a nice addition to this forum.

If there are any other threads or discussions on this topic, if someone could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.

Thanks for listening people, and keep up the good work.

Carl (:-})

perhaps we can use Wikimedia commons to host. They already have several videos of with a choose your own license function. Wikimedia might compress the video. Not sure.

Category:Video - Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video)

I am seriously considering creating some public domain material....

Wow, Swap Shop, that takes me back to my childhood, I love it.
Roger I like your way of thinking. There's a lot of us on very low budgets who can not afford Royalty free Stock footage and I think you are on to something there.

I think what Jeff Donald said about copyright would not be a problem if we as the users agreed that this would be copyright free material for what ever purposes we wanted it for.
I would think the bigger problem would be that there would be so much stuff (and some of it, not so good) that the webspace and bandwidth would be more of a problem for dvinfo, especially if this was to be full quality hi def footage. The solution for that could be that we upload small thumbnail previews or limit the size and then contact the user for a full quality download.

"Are any moderators, admin listening"
This is a great idea that Roger is onto here, so please please make this happen. I would be more than happy to supply some footage and it could even inspire me to go out and shoot more stuff.

Maybe we could run a poll on this, see how many people are interested and are willing to supply short clips. It would certainly make a nice addition to this forum.

If there are any other threads or discussions on this topic, if someone could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.

Thanks for listening people, and keep up the good work.

Carl (:-})

I would certainly be willing to host it. I have a rather large server, and would only need to come up with a cms based solution of some sort. Maybe drupal with a nice plugin, or even maybe wordpress or something of the sort. I think the cms would be the hard part.

My server:
- 2TB Storage (only 500mb used lol)
- 9TB Bandwidth (only 130mb used rofl)

I made some contributions to the public domain.

Enjoy!

File:EyesOfIntent.JPG - Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EyesOfIntent.JPG)

File:LightsAlive.JPG - Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LightsAlive.JPG)

Internet Archive: Details: The Threshold of Perception (http://www.archive.org/details/TheThresholdOfPerception)