Category Archives: Free Stock Footage, Video Clips

10 Websites with Free Stock Video Footage

filmFree royalty free stock footage is hard to find but we have compiled a list of some of the better sites that are offering a selection of video clips available for download and use in personal and commercial projects.
This is a list of 10 websites that offer lots of free royalty free video footage. We try to keep the registration sites and upsellers to minimum. We will keep updating as we find more.
If you have a free stock video footage site please post a comment and I will review it and add it to the main article. You can use free royalty free stock footage in your personal and commercial projects. You can often download it in NTSC and PAL formats which is basically covers the US (NTSC) and the rest of the world (PAL). Many of the videos loops and are meant to used in the background of elements you already have created such as text and titles or green screen elements.

1. Partners In Rhyme Free Video Loops
www.partnersinrhyme.com/free_video_loops.shtml
There is a free video HD video loop to be downloaded on every page. More being added all the time and soon we will have a main page with all videos listed..

2. StockFootageForFree.com www.stockfootageforfree.com
There are absolutely no fees to download as much royalty stock footage as you would like. These are footages that span the world. All you do is to create a free account and you get to log in and download unlimited amounts of quality footage or clips that you are interested in.
PLEASE NOTE: you do have to create an account to download these files. I have created an account and it is as it says, free downloads of lots of stock footage.

3. MovieTools.info
This is a great source for free stock footage in NTSC and PAL formats with 77 motion background loops, 12 lower thirds and 4 motion objects for you to download and use in your projects.
Chrstian Video Loops
Countdown Video Loops
Energy Video Loops
Flag Video Loops
Hightech Video Loops
Holiday Video Loops
Misc Video Loops
News and Studio Video Loops
Sports Video Loops

4. BottledVideo.com
www.botledvideo.com
A huge archive of free video footage, no gimmicks, no sales, just download and use the video clips.

5. Digital Hotcakes
www.animationsforvideo.com/html/free_3d_animation.htm
When you sign up Digital Hotcakes at they will give away a free loop each month.

6. Pond5
www.pond5.com/Free-Stock-Footage
Download a free HD video clip every week from Pond5.com. Choose a format, add it to your cart and checkout to receive the free clip.

7. MotionElements
www.motionelements.com/stock-footage?p=-1
Motion Elements has an extensive free section of nearly 180 high quality background video clips.

8. Vidsplay.com
www.vidsplay.com/
A great site with lots of free stock video footage for you to download. No registration and no upsell..

9. GiveMeFreeart.com
www.givemefreeart.com/
A small selection of video clips free to download without registration or upselling..

10. FootageCrate.com
www.footagecrate.com/
Lots of great video footage in many genres, Free to download and use, no registration..

Free VFX Elements from Final Light

A friend of mine sent me a link to Finalight.com which is a new website that sells VFX stock footage. For those of you that may not be familiar with the term VFX is short for ‘visual effects’ and is used to describe all the computer generated effects you see in films these days.
Finalight.com sells elements like smoke, fire, shockwaves and explosions that you can use to add to your video or film project. You need basic compositing knowledge to add the effects to your project but the guys at Finallight have made it pretty easy by providing masks and well-filmed or computer generated elements.
They have three elements available on their site here
http://www.finalight.com/-/maindir/webpages/STHANKS.php
So you can test them out to see if you want to purchase anything from their library.
I purchased a flame effect and added it to a quick VFX test I am working. Take a look here

More Free Video Background Loops: Romantic and Corporate

vbsd0961_ntsc_thumbWe have uploaded two new pages of free video background loops to our growing collection of free video loops. The new pages include 12 romantic video loops with lots of hearts and flowers plus 10 corporate video background loops with lots of charts, globes and team building images.
They are available in full rez and in both NTSC and PAL formats. You can use these video loops as backgrounds in your personal and commercial projects completely free of charge (you are not allowed to repost, redistribute or resell these clips without syncing them into your own projects first).