Stock footage has high demand in market because of the several benefits it offers. Moreover, it gets easier for directors to embed natural scenes such as of sunset, sunrise, or a volcanic eruption in the video. But, there are a few things one should keep in mind while choosing a stock video.
There are general scenarios like sunrise, sunset, underwater effect, 3D hallow tube travel etc. which needs a lot of effort to develop graphically. The first thing comes into one's mind while thinking of graphically developing or using those videos is to buy that required footage and customize it to my needs.
Any video or video sample you use for your website, promotion or for any other option could be royalty free which might help avoid further complications. There are several video sites boast of giving free footage which is not the same as royalty free. The idea of royalty free is that you to make a license payment to make the video royalty free. You can use these videos in movies, advertisements, personal videos, in websites, make promotional videos etc. Royalty free footage can be customized without infringing on the copyright of the cameraman that shot it.
The videos available are of different quality like NTSC, PAL (standard quality), 1080P, 720p (High Quality), 240p, 144p (low quality) etc. Based on your requirement you have to select the quality. For web services or for online promotion select low quality videos to load faster and for advertising and movie production purpose use high quality images to make your film look as good as possible no an HD screen.
Whenever possible be sure to buy or get the video in the original source format in which it was shot and convert it yourself to the required version according to your needs. Another thing one should keep in mind while buying video footages is property release. If any famous or noticeable property is present in the video clip, make sure the developer had taken permission from the owner of the property and confirm the same with the owner of the property. Similar to the property release, one should also consider for model release (if any guy or girl is present in the video) i.e., if the video seller has taken the permission of model and confirm the same with the model. One should keep in mind about the size of the video sample he/she intended to buy or get. Usually the royalty free footage videos of few seconds will occupy hundreds of megabytes of memory.
One must know some simple things like Alpha Matte, Compression techniques, Resolution etc. Alpha matte is used to customize the background where as compression and conversion techniques will help you in converting the brought or downloaded footage according to your needs. There are some other things you must research before getting a video sample like how many users had already downloaded this video, any popular/ noticeable ad/act/movie using this footage etc. Particularly in royalty free footage, if somebody had first downloaded that particular clip and make a popular video and your video also contains the same thing people will might feel it is less original.
There are general scenarios like sunrise, sunset, underwater effect, 3D hallow tube travel etc. which needs a lot of effort to develop graphically. The first thing comes into one's mind while thinking of graphically developing or using those videos is to buy that required footage and customize it to my needs.
Any video or video sample you use for your website, promotion or for any other option could be royalty free which might help avoid further complications. There are several video sites boast of giving free footage which is not the same as royalty free. The idea of royalty free is that you to make a license payment to make the video royalty free. You can use these videos in movies, advertisements, personal videos, in websites, make promotional videos etc. Royalty free footage can be customized without infringing on the copyright of the cameraman that shot it.
The videos available are of different quality like NTSC, PAL (standard quality), 1080P, 720p (High Quality), 240p, 144p (low quality) etc. Based on your requirement you have to select the quality. For web services or for online promotion select low quality videos to load faster and for advertising and movie production purpose use high quality images to make your film look as good as possible no an HD screen.
Whenever possible be sure to buy or get the video in the original source format in which it was shot and convert it yourself to the required version according to your needs. Another thing one should keep in mind while buying video footages is property release. If any famous or noticeable property is present in the video clip, make sure the developer had taken permission from the owner of the property and confirm the same with the owner of the property. Similar to the property release, one should also consider for model release (if any guy or girl is present in the video) i.e., if the video seller has taken the permission of model and confirm the same with the model. One should keep in mind about the size of the video sample he/she intended to buy or get. Usually the royalty free footage videos of few seconds will occupy hundreds of megabytes of memory.
One must know some simple things like Alpha Matte, Compression techniques, Resolution etc. Alpha matte is used to customize the background where as compression and conversion techniques will help you in converting the brought or downloaded footage according to your needs. There are some other things you must research before getting a video sample like how many users had already downloaded this video, any popular/ noticeable ad/act/movie using this footage etc. Particularly in royalty free footage, if somebody had first downloaded that particular clip and make a popular video and your video also contains the same thing people will might feel it is less original.
