Hello and welcome to the third video is Beginner's Guide to Adobe after effects.
So in this video, we're going to examine for the most popular stock sites for your video projects.
Of course, there way many more stock sites, but we're going to have a look at the most used, I think,
most popular, most amenable.
So if you're ready, let's get started, because the first one that we're going to look at, of course,
is Adobe Stock.
So on the side, you will find royalty free items like photos and images of actors and videos.
And of course, they also offer a lot of motion graphic templates.
Adobe Stock Library is really huge.
So I have a look at their video collection, for example.
And at the time of this recording, it's really huge.
I know I already said that, but you've got over 60 million items to look through, ranging from beautiful
Fourcade drone shots to timelapse is portraits, everything in between.
And by the way, there are a lot of templates that are free to download, but not everything is free
on the Adobe stock site.
So you will have to pay attention to how they're tagged or different plans, of course, and pricing
options available.
Pricing on the Adobe stock site is mainly based on credit, right, for example, with one credit,
you can get a standard image with a standard license and for a credit card, you can get some HD video
with an enhanced license.
There's also an option to buy a single item directly on the site, but it is a whole lot cheaper if
you get credits subscription based.
So overall, you can find a lot of items on the Adobe stock site.
Yeah, I mean, you know, some people say, hey, they're not the cheapest, but it's true.
But they do offer some really quality, very high quality assets.
Of course, they do integrated very well with the Adobe products.
Do you think there's any design involved here?
Perhaps.
And obviously they have a very clear licensing policy.
Well, let's have a look at the next one, Shutterstock.
You might see them referred to in press photos, in any magazine articles you may have read this stock
footage giant has been around for years and years now, and it's probably the biggest one.
The website itself is available.
You got it looks like 21 languages right now.
You might know them primarily for their images, but they also have a huge video collection and they
also sell music.
Shutterstock currently offers over 300 million images and more than 18 million videos, so that might
be why you always find them in your search results.
There, collection always keeps snowballing bigger and bigger because Shutterstock works with over a
million community contributors and they're literally adding more than 200000 new images every day.
Shutterstock website functions well, search box is intuitive, easy to use.
And you can search for similar photos and photos of the same model, for instance.
Of course, you can also use the tags to search for similar items.
Shutterstock is clearly aiming at the professional market, global brands and big corporations.
That's why you won't find a subscription with unlimited downloads, but.
They do have subscriptions, if that's what you want, but for images, they they offer a subscription
for 10, 53, 50 and 750 images per month.
And if you choose the annual billing optional, start at 29 bucks a month.
Now here, there's also an option to start a free trial, but make sure that you read the terms.
If you don't cancel within the free trial period, you're going to be charged and all that good stuff,
the video subscriptions are based on 10 or 20 clips a month.
And a subscription includes video formats like HD and for Fourcade.
Most of the clips are really high quality, and you probably won't have any trouble finding the right
one for your project.
As I mentioned before, their collection is is huge.
So you can't go wrong with that.
Let's have a look at some of the subjects range from nature to travel time lapses, corporate video
clips.
Really beautiful portraits, so now it's time for number three, which is an Votto.
And to be more specific, the invite marketplace and invite elements.
On the invitro Web site, they offer more than just images of videos and music, for example.
They'll also offer Web site templates and forms and 3D models.
And only in Vado marketplace, all the items are sold separately, but in Votto elements now that's
entirely subscription based.
So the inverter market is a collection of multiple giant marketplaces like video archive and audio jungle.
I can say that again, bought a website generally works pretty well.
The only real problem on this website, I think, is audio playback, after previewing a few tracks,
the site often has problems buffering.
Now, granted, it has been improved in the last couple of months.
Who knows what might have been a flash thing?
I didn't really bother to investigate, but it's nowhere near as good as something like art list, for
example.
But getting back to the Inverdale marketplace, the licensing is pretty straightforward, but sometimes
it can be a bit confusing.
And that's really because they also sell items that were clearly designed to be used in multiple projects,
but the inverter licenses meant and valid for just one single end product.
But with a subscription, you can download unlimited and license for private and commercial projects.
And that really gives you two point three million items for just sixteen fifty a month.
So, again, to me, that sounds crazy, affordable and a must have, I think, for every creative process,
especially if you want to, well, continue and but I'll leave that decision up to you, obviously.
So finally, it is time for number four on the list, which is story blocks.
Now, Story Blocks is the rebranded name for three different previous sites, video blogs, audio blogs
and graphic stock.
Now, their names are storey blocks, video, story blocks, audio and story blocks, images.
So there's a name may imply or you might infer from the name story will offer you videos, including
after effects, templates, music and sound effects and images.
Storey Blocks is, however, entirely subscription based.
You can sign up for audio images and video all at once, or in case you just want to stock video, for
example, you can sign up just for that service.
Some users, it might be a really good option from an economic point of view.
Again, your mileage may vary, your usage may vary.
But here you can see the subscription plans and prices, you can choose to be billed annually, the
unlimited all access plan will cost you just 349 bucks, or is that euros per year?
So it's just over 29 bucks or even euros a month.
And like I mentioned, besides that, there are options for separate subscriptions for audio images
or video only.
So you want to use story blocks as a team in your business or corporation, then you might just want
to ask for a quote, right.
Says, Fill in the form and maybe they can make you an offer that maybe just better suits your needs.
So they've also got to licensing options.
First one is a standard license, which is really best for individual creators like freelancers or for
publishing on YouTube, for instance.
There is also an enterprise license, which might be better for teams that work in the same department
or company or organization, whatever.
This story box collection is is big, but it's not as massive as, say, Adobe or Shutterstock.
But just like the other sites, they do keep adding new items every week, and I would say to the majority
of items on story blocks or medium to high quality, and some items can't even be considered premium,
in my humble opinion.
Which is, of course, great in this price range.
I certainly don't have much to complain about the website, except it it's sometimes harder to find
the right items in the search function, but other than that, the site works just fine.
So to summarize, all that's story blocks offers a large variety of stock images, audio and videos.
But the a number of items in their library is still quite modest compared to some of the other sites
that I talked about before.
But story blocks does have one of the cheapest offers available and the royalty free stock market.
They offer multiple subscription level options, and most of them include unlimited downloads.
Be sure to read everything.
And then finally, you can either go all in or choose just a video, audio or image only subscription,
which indeed might be anything that you're looking for if you're trying to contain yourself to a lower
budget.
All right.
So that's about it for this video.
These are my favorite.
Go to royalty free stock websites.
So we'll take a short break here and I'll see you in the next video.