Free Stock Footage Sites — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:00] downloading this beautiful woman staring into the camera and using it in your music video project guys isn't this going to be awesome and the idea that you haven't hired a model and you haven't paid anyone and this is just free to use is simply amazing hi guys and welcome to yet another

[00:18] exciting video right here on the africa on this channel today on this channel i am going to be showing you where to find free awesome stock footage for your videos if you are editing a video and you need some videos or you want to cut to certain things that you didn't actually have the

[00:32] opportunity to actually film on set and to make sure your videos are really engaging sometimes you really need those shots in order to make your videos feel complete for example i'm making a video and i need someone to be running or maybe i need some shots of beds or maybe i need some

[00:46] shots of people or maybe some models or maybe it's just raining all these examples you see on your screen right now are videos that i've downloaded from some sites and this can really get very expensive but the main goal of this video is to show you free sites where you can absolutely

[01:00] download some of these kind of videos absolutely for free so if this is something that you want to learn about or you are into stick around let's figure this out so in no particular order the

[01:13] first website where i find awesome free high quality videos for my videos is vdz.com now if you open the website bdz you realize that we have two set of videos some of the videos are there

[01:25] they have this pro badge on them others don't have the pro badge on them those with the pro badge simply means that these are videos that have to be sold or you have to pay for them however that is not the focus of this video so we are focusing on those that you don't need to pay a dime in

[01:39] order to have access to for example this particular video right here can be downloaded absolutely and using your project without paying any money so what you have to do is if you have a concert let's say i need someone who is running i just come here type in the name or describe the kind

[01:53] of footage i want and click on search and the video would actually appear for example i want a footage of someone running i can just come to the search bar right here and just type man running and click on search and wait for the search results to actually appear and right away

[02:08] you have your results and when you go to the results like i said if you see those with the pro badge on them it means that these are sold so probably if you're like me and you don't have money for that uh just keep those of club videos this one for example like this is free uh this

[02:22] particular one like this is free this is free so you have a lot of them which are actually free that you can download for example if you click on this after clicking on a particular video it opens or takes you to the page where you can actually download that particular video before downloading

[02:36] it you can actually go ahead to play it just to see how the video is yeah absolutely my entire it's kind of really bad at the moment but you kind of get what i'm saying so but before that what you can do is before you go ahead to download sometimes it's really very important that you get

[02:50] to read the license information because some of the artists are there they actually require that although you are not paying anything for the video you are supposed to copy the link and post it under your video especially if you a youtuber or sometimes you have to give them credit by mentioning them in the video or at least letting your audience know that i took this video from this particular site credit is really important for some of the videos but let go ahead let click on the line face information here just to

[03:16] be sure that or just to understand what this video actually require of us so when we click here this is the information video is giving us uh this file is free for personal and commercial use but you might give attribution in one of the following ways like i said in this case we want you to

[03:32] you actually acknowledge that you took the video from a particular source. So they are saying that if you are doing TV broadcasts where maybe you download a footage from here and you are editing or you are using it in a TV program or if the program will

[03:44] be broadcasted on TV, they are saying that you should mention bdc.com in the credit. It can be at the end of the video or probably put it in the description if it is going on a TV station's YouTube channel and all that.

[03:56] And if it's going to the web, they are saying that copy and paste the following HTML code on the page. so i'll suggest that before downloading when you check the right information and they tell you to copy something like this please just kindly go ahead copy it and store it somewhere so that when

[04:09] you are done with editing of your video and you post it please always remember to add this review your description and trust me you are going to be absolutely safe so once you are done with that you just click on free download and voila the video will be downloaded and you are ready to use it

[04:22] in your projects absolutely for free the next free stock footage on the list is video now when you go go to video.net and you open the site this is the kind of interface that you'll be greeted with and

[04:34] when you scroll through you will find a lot of awesome videos here which are absolutely gorgeous but also going out for free for example if you want to download this particular range shot we just go ahead click on this and wait for it to open and once it opens this window you can go

[04:50] ahead right away to free download once again like i already showed you it's very important that you read the information that is attached to the video so that you are sure that you are avoiding any kind of copyright stuff that may arise on the way so right here this is the licensing and usage

[05:06] information as you can see on this website is different um right away when you click the website you see it's actually displayed here so they say video attribution license you must credit the author so this is clearly written here that you must credit them so if you ever download this

[05:20] video and use it within your video or any other video there and you find out that the same you must give credit please take note you must actually give credit just to avoid any future troubles or any troubles at all within your video so if you are observing this then right away you

[05:35] just go ahead and click on free download but make sure that after adding this particular footage to your video you actually do the honorable thing by acknowledging the source or where you actually got the video from another awesome site where you can find some of these high quality videos is pixabay

[05:51] After opening pixabay.com you are greeted with this awesome interface and as you can see when you go through the browse there are other awesome videos here that you can use in your timeline right away or you can come here to the search bar and quickly type in

[06:04] what kind of video that you are looking for then click on the search to find out what kind of video you are looking for But over here it not just about videos they also have images so you need to really specify so you have to come here click on videos so that they know that you are actually searching for videos for example all these other ones you saw earlier were actually pictures but as i clicked

[06:23] on video right now all these images we have here are thumbnails of high quality videos that you can download and use in your project for example there's a hand beach or a hand at a beach let's click on it if we want to download this particular video now they also offer 4k files as you can see

[06:39] you have a little 4k sign here and showing that the videos are in 4k and also right over here you have a time bar showing the length of that particular video that you want to download after clicking on it it takes you to a page like this where you can actually go ahead to play the

[06:54] video just to be sure that it's something that you want just look at this this is really really beautiful high quality and it's just unbelievable that you are going to have access to this for free so if you are satisfied with the results or you are satisfied that this is the particular

[07:08] video you want you can just go ahead and click on free download and voila you can use it in your project but as you've already learned in this video it's always important to refer to the license information as you can see this site to provide you the information right here they say

[07:22] exactly lenses and they say free for commercial use no attribution required so categorically with this particular video if you use it in your video or use it in any form you don't need to kind of

[07:34] attribute or give any form of recognition to the artist or copy and paste in any particular site and that is why this particular website, Pixabay is one of my favorite websites because sometimes

[07:46] I forget to copy all these things and paste in my timeline and all that so yes as much as all the other ones are very good I don't want to sometimes get into a bit trouble so I prefer to use Pixabay because you don't need all those complex information yes some of them you might have

[08:01] to attribute but trust me from my experience most of the videos right here don't need any form of attribution so if you download videos from here you are rest assured that you are much more likely to be safe if you forget to attribute someone yes attributing artist is actually good but it is not

[08:17] really compulsory in this regard now my last and favorite website where you can find free awesome high quality stock footage for your videos is pixel this website i mean guys would blow your

[08:31] mind this website is actually amazing pixel is a website where you can actually go to download free stock footage without paying a dime and trust me the quality of videos here would blow your mind

[08:43] especially if you know how expensive those kind of videos or downloading stock footage can get online so these are some of the amazing videos they have in their catalog so all you need to do is just to click on any of these videos it will open up and as you can see right away you can

[08:59] click on free download to just download it right away and again right here they have their license information and here they are saying that free to use so right away you will know if you have to attribute or if it's free to use so that is why i like this website is just straightforward

[09:13] you don need to decode all those complex jargons that comes along with reading license information and at the same time they also offer images so as you can see what we are going through where images catalog so if you want videos you specifically just come here and click videos and all the images it will display from now on what are going to be

[09:31] thumbnails leading to other videos so as you can see all these are thumbnails leading to awesome videos of that particular nature so you can just click on any of those look at the license information and go ahead to download it for example let's just click on this particular

[09:45] face and see what we get straight away after clicking this is the kind of window you are greeted with and you can go ahead right away to just click on free download to download and straight away you can see the alliances information here they just say free to use you don't need to

[09:59] go through and read anything anywhere right away you know that you are confident that if you download this video you can go ahead and use it in your timeline without facing any challenges of any sort however sometimes as you click on it as you can see you get different resolutions or you can

[10:14] go through to find different videos with similar kind of dimensions then you can download that and use that in your video for example if you are using a 16 by 9 timeline which you are most likely to be using then this kind of a video would actually fit in very well they also have hd they

[10:30] also have 4k and all other formats let's go ahead and play this video as you can see this is awesome guys and this you can download and use in your project for free i can see the potential of this for those doing music videos and all that just imagine downloading this beautiful woman staring

[10:46] into the camera and using it in your music video project guys isn't this great awesome and the idea that you haven't hired a model and you haven't paid anyone and this is just free to use

[10:58] it's simply amazing and for me as a bonus point if i want to use it in a music video i'll make sure that i have the access or i use the same similar background to shoot other shots so that when i

[11:11] download this and match it up in the video it doesn't look off everything kind of marries together perfectly so now back to this video if you click on free download straight away they just tell you thank you for downloading the video and right away as you can see the download has

[11:25] actually started voila the download is actually going on amazing right so these are the sites where i find free high quality stock videos anytime i'm stuck with or maybe i'm editing a

[11:37] video and I don't have any high quality BEOC use in my video or probably I finish the video and I've realized that it's a little bit boring then I go ahead and download footage from this particular

[11:49] site to supplement some of the videos that I'm actually shooting or videos that I'm working on. Thank you so much for watching. If you're new here we talk about cinematography, photography, editing and all its related branches. If you have any further questions you can leave them in the

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