Royalty free pictures and video

Stock videos are good quality, royalty-free short clips that can be used in different film-making, business, or personal projects.

Assets like these come in handy when you run into some problems with video production. For example, you may not have been able to capture shots in remote or far-off places.

Under such circumstances, well-placed fragments of free stock videos can really bring your video projects to life.

To help you out, we’ve put together a list of top websites that supply a variety of good-quality free stock videos.

So, if you are looking to add city landscape or wildlife clips, you visit these websites to get your hands-on stock video snippets for your next presentation, in-house meeting, or client video project.

Pexels is considered to be one of the top stock video databases.

Pexels offers HD and 4K videos that are free to use and free to edit. In fact, they don’t even require any attribution to the contributor.

Pexels should be your go-to stop for stock photos as well because they offer a premium quality selection on their website.

So, you are in luck if your project also requires adding some photographs which you cannot usually capture.

Shutterstock is one of the most used platforms for stock videos. Most businesses use Shutterstock to purchase high-quality 4K and HD licensed videos.

Clips can be searched through various attributes such as frame rates, resolution, and length.

The video library gets fresh content every week. There are several categories that make your overall website experience smooth and quick.

Pixabay also releases footage under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) License, which means all of the videos are free to use, edit, and do not require attribution.

Pixabay has over 1.2 million HD videos and images in its database.

Clipstill is devoted to cinemagraphs only, which means still photos that contain animation playing on loop. Cinemagraphs easily grab the viewer’s attention.

Clipstill offers limited free cinemagraphs that change every month.

Other than that, users will need to pay a one-off $49 fee for lifetime access to their premium quality clips, which isn’t much for their striking and exceptional content.

Videvo is a one-stop-shop for free stock videos, motion graphics, music, and soundtracks. Their library includes thousands of options to choose from.

The top row in the search results is sponsored premium content from advertisers such as Shutterstock.

It has hassle-free licensing, but videos fall under three types of licenses:

Pond5 is a very reputable royalty-free stock video agency that provides top-notch quality stock video content for users.They host a large library of exclusive clips, photos, music, sounds effects, and 3D models. There are countless categories to search from.

They also have a selection of editorial-use-only stock video content. Their price range varies depending on the type of video. They have over 8 million footage files in their database.

Life of Vids has a collection of stock footage, clips and loops created by Canadian web design agency Leeroy.

Each video clip is free to download from Vimeo with maximum quality of 1080p. They are put together in collections and categorized such as city, drone, people and clouds.

All of the stock videos and pictures are royalty-free. Though, redistribution of the clips on other platforms are set to 10.

Dareful is largely focused on providing quality rather than quantity. There is an amazing collection of high-quality 4K clips of landscapes and looping backdrops.

In order to download a clip, all you need to do is just click the button. Dareful offers a detailed description of the video.

Since it takes a long time to download one video, a detailed description will give you the right idea.

Artgrid is another stock video footage platform that provides an opportunity to search according to themes, shot type, and people.

Users can also look up clips from featured filmmakers or artists. Artgrid offers video clips of up to 8K video quality.

The price range is between $25 to $50 per month depending on HD to raw/log clips

Videohive, part of Envato, is a low-cost stock footage site. They have around 1,580,515 video clips with different qualities ranging from 720p to 4K.

Their prices also vary from $4 to $200 depending on the resolution, length, commercial value, and production value.

Videohive uses royalty-free licenses, but with a catch: the default option covers use in one single project, and for multiple uses, you have to pay a certain price.

Dissolve sets itself apart from many stock footage websites with its ‘theme’ search-ability.

Users can easily get their hands-on different video clips by selecting from different themes like ‘in the distance’, ‘it’s all in the details’ or ‘symmetry’.

Dissolve’s clips are priced by quality. From as low as $29, the price goes up to $549 if you are looking for 4K footages.

Videezy is another platform for 4K quality footage which includes aerial drone shots and abstract clips rendered using Adobe After Effects. You can easily find videos through multiple categories.

Videezy requires users to give credit to them when using their video in the projects, but they are still free to use it for personal and commercial purposes.

In the search results, videos with a green Pro tag require credit cards and are paid options.