Heya! Welcome to Crypto To You. Today on this occasion I am going to share 11 Sites to get Free Footages for your Marketing.
When blogs became fashionable, free online image banks came to the rescue of thousands of authors of written content who barely had quality images to accompany their articles.
But now, we live in the age of YouTube, of Instagram and TikTok; in the era, ultimately, of video . And, again, those small creators who do not have the means to record and/or buy their own clips, with which to complement their creations, need to resort to websites that allow them to be downloaded and used legally.
So we have proposed to review some of the most recommended . But before we start offering you links, we offer you some advice: most of these free websites have premium content sections, or are partners of paid video websites...
…so that, frequently, they will try to redirect you from free content to paid content , so be very careful where you click, if you do not want to end up paying 'curious' amounts because you have fallen in love with a particular clip.
Having said that… The best websites to download royalty-free content: images, photos, videos, music, sounds...
11 Website where you can get Free Footages
Mix Kit
Related to premium content site Envato Elements, Mixkit offers a lot of free HD-quality videos that don't require any attribution, even for commercial projects.
The themes are very varied (and are clearly divided into categories), and they also offer formats such as vertical videos or videos intended to be website backgrounds .
In addition, Mixkit increases its collection with 10 new videos every week.
Videvo
Videvo includes both paid (royalty-free) and free content; the latter is offered under CC-BY and Videvo licenses (which may require the work to be attributed or not, depending on the case).
We will find many HD videos and some (few) 4K , and we recommend you browse through its 'Collections' , which work as thematic categories. As far as file formats are concerned, some clips can be downloaded in MP4 format and others in QuickTime format.
Pixabay
Pixabay is one of the largest free image banks on the Internet, and it occupies a similar position in the field of video. Its catalog is one of the most varied, in image quality (yes, you will also find 4K) and in the length of the clips.
The negative aspect is that the website does not have a category structure that allows us to visualize at a glance the offer of videos of a certain theme, although the 'tag clouds' of each individual video can also be useful .
His videos are available under the same Pixabay license as his photos , which allows commercial use without attribution, but not redistribution to other video banks of the content, unaltered or unaltered.
Pexels
Pexels is a story similar to Pixabay in terms of being a bank for both images and videos. Like Pixabay, it also prefers tags to categories. On the contrary, it does not use its own license for its videos, but instead opts for the flexible Creative Commons Zero (CC0) .
It offers many videos of nature, landscapes (also urban) and 'people doing things', but above all it stands out for its extensive catalog of vertical videos , a format in vogue in these times of smartphone reign.
Distill
Distill sends you a selection of 10 new videos to your inbox every 10 days. The particular thing about its cover is that the videos are not organized by theme, but by artist .
Motion Elements
Motion Elements offers us more than 4000 video clips to download.
Where others stand out for their beautiful clips that seem to be taken from documentaries, the strong point of this website (although it also has those) are the animated backgrounds, the 'transition' clips and the like .
Various licenses are offered.
Dareful
Many compare Dareful to what Unsplash is in the field of photo banks: a commitment to quality over quantity .
Right now their catalog is extremely limited: only 46 videos available for download (which is understandable, because all the videos are recorded by the same person, Joel Holland).
The good thing is that all the clips are 4K quality (and quite visually beautiful) .
Mazwai
In Mazwai they highlight themselves on their website that their team of professionals "hand selects" the content they offer . Without a doubt, the clips are of "high quality and cinematic style".
Regarding licenses, they offer both their own (without attribution) and Creative Commons.
Footage Crate
Footage Crate is one of the most peculiar websites on the list, because more than full clips, it focuses on providing us with VFX effects that we can superimpose on other videos with the appropriate editor.
Like electric lightning, snow, fire, explosions, sandstorms ... a wonder when it comes to 'animate' your videos, and all with Full HD/4K quality .
The negative point is that it is also the only website on the list that will require us to register in order to download the videos.
OpenFootage
OpenFootage is also not far behind with respect to the previous option, as it focuses on offering quite peculiar formats: from VFX effects similar to those that we could find in Footage Crate, to 360º HDRI shots, timelapse/slowmotion clips, 3D scans , etc.
The licenses are diverse (in several cases, commercial use is limited), and unfortunately, the free download options tend to be low resolution .
Clipstill
Don't be scared, but Clipstill only offers you 5 free videos to download (and not in its HD version), selected from its paid subscription offer.
The good news is that these 5 videos change every month, so if you're looking forward to downloading them, you can end up building a bank of interesting clips of your own.
Why recommend this site? Because it focuses on the format called 'Cinemagraphs': still images with certain moving elements .
Surely you have seen hundreds of music videos on YouTube that use them, but most of the websites on the list hardly offer this kind of content.