Using stock footage is a quick and easy way to put together videos for the web…it’s widely available and you can find clips on just about anything. It also happens to be expensive. I recently spent several hundred dollars on just a handful of clips for a project. But there is a new web site [...]
It’s always good to have stock video clips around. You never know when you might need one…no matter what type of video project you’re working on. But there are two big problems with stock video clips. One, they can be expensive…up to $50 or more for a single HD clip. And two, since a fair [...]
Pond5 is one of the many places where you can find stock video clips online. What’s a stock video clip? It’s a professionally shot video clip (usually) that you can use in your web videos…royalty-free. In fact, a lot of videos on the web are put together using only stock video clips instead of “original” [...]
If you’d like to start building your library of stock video clips, a company called Footage Firm has just come out with an attractive Christmas-time offer. They are giving away entire stock video clip collections on DVD…for free. What’s the catch? Well, you have to pay shipping and handling ($8.41) and they only have 500 [...]
Yesterday in the United States a new president was elected. It was a landslide victory. Record voter turnout. History was made. Mentioned, but largely glossed over by the media, was how effective Barack Obama was in using the Internet during the election, particularly new media. In two years, he went from an afterthought to a front-runner…raising [...]
