Well, hello and welcome to the 34th video on this beginner's guide to Dhobi After Effects.
So in this video, we're going to discuss free stock video sites.
So let's get into it now before we start, I want you to know that free does not always imply that it
is without restrictions or obligations.
But are most of these sites you will find a Creative Commons license.
Now, there are different levels or building blocks within Creative Commons licenses, but the most
common one that you will find is the zero or B y.
Six zero is the most permissive license that exists, so you don't have to credit the original creator.
There are no restrictions on what you can do with it.
But the other Creative Commons licenses, while these have variations that are a bit more limited.
So it could require you to credit the original creator or maybe not use this in any of your commercial
or paid work.
So just to summarize, make sure to check the license terms before you download and use the footage.
All right.
And one more disclaimer before we start the license info for each site presented in this video can be
changed in the future.
So make sure to always check the most current license terms on the website itself.
All right.
Cool.
So now, without any further ado, let's start with the list.
So the first one on the list is Mazwai.
Wow.
I'm actually not sure how to pronounce it correctly, but it is MSFC WBAY.
Anyway, I'm sure that this site has got some stunning footage, clean and simple layout of the website
makes it easy to navigate and preview the footage.
You can scroll through the items in full screen mode or in a four by four grid mode.
So this is the smallest free stock site that, well, I found and that you'll find in this list.
But here, it's clearly quality over quantity.
Now, at the moment, they're offering around 200 downloads, which all contain multiple clips stitched
together, most of the downloads are a high quality tornado footage.
So far, I haven't found any Fourcade footage yet.
But all of the downloads are under the attribution license, so that means that you've got to credit
the author of the product.
So overall, it's not the biggest free stock site, but definitely worth checking out.
So let's move on to number four on the list, and that is very easy, Dotcom.
So this site offers completely free and paid so-called pro videos.
So these paid videos are marked with a green pro tag on the top of the thumbnail.
All the other clips are free to download, and that's what we're here for today.
So very easy offers a big collection of 10 ADP and four K footage.
The site has an effective search feature and filtering options are very useful.
The first two rows of the search results are sponsored videos from Shutterstock.
Well, that's something that you'll find on most other sites as well.
A negative point about it is that you can't preview an item in the search results.
So you'll have to open up the video page to see a preview.
Now, if you're not a paid user, you will have to deal with the ads before downloading.
Not necessarily a bad thing.
And after a few downloads, he'll also require you to register for a free account.
But then after that, you can download the files and use them for educational, personal and commercial
projects.
But I also want you to know that it is based on the attribution license.
So that means that you've got to credit the author.
Now, the third place in my list is pestles dotcom.
Paxos began as a free photo site, but now it also has a large library of free food stock videos.
So if you search for something like this, you'll get the photo results.
But you can also switch to video.
So we can preview the clips and search results, which is very handy.
Shutterstock has also sponsored videos and they're listed on the bottom of the search results here.
It's a great place, in my opinion.
Although I didn't find any Fourcade footage, a quality of most of the 10 AP clips is very good.
But most importantly of all, all the clips here are based on Creative Commons zero license, so that
means they're free to use and attribution is not required.
So we'll move on to number two in the list, Vevo dot net.
So those of you who follow my channel know that this is one of my favorite free stock video sites in
the past, have also offered some of my videos.
But to be clear, this is not sponsored.
So on this site, they offer mostly free HD or 10 AVP footage, but they've also got some free for clips.
They also offer paid or premium video clips.
But you can easily filter their clips in the search results if you want to.
Now, if you download the clip from video, just make sure that.
You check the license.
That's because they'll use three different types of licenses.
The first one is the so-called royalty free license.
It's basically Creative Commons zero, but you're not allowed to re upload the clip elsewhere.
The next one is the video attribution license.
So this is the same as the previous one, only here you will need to credit the author.
And the last one is the standard Creative Commons B y license.
So this one also requires attribution.
But you can distribute the clip in its original form elsewhere, so you could say that licensing and
video is a bit more complex, but in return for that, you get a huge selection of unique free video
clips.
All right, so now it's time to introduce you to number one, Pixar, Buy.com.
So this site offers more than a million high quality stock images and videos.
They've got a huge, if not the biggest collection of free HD and Fourcade clips.
Picks eBay likes to present itself as a community of creatives who share copyright free images and videos.
So all submissions are checked for quality by experts.
And they will only be allowed if they are in agreement with equality guidelines.
But still, I have to admit that I'm not all the clips have the same high standard as you find on some
of the sites that I mentioned before.
But the site itself is very intuitive.
You can preview the clips in the search results and you can also preview the original clip in the browser
before downloading.
All the downloads have the same simple pics, eBay license.
And it's basically Creative Commons zero, but you're not allowed to redistribute the video to any other
stock site or sell it anywhere else.
All right, so that's it for the top five free stock video sites.
We'll take a break here and I'll see you in the next video.