Video Content Tip of The Week: Utilize FREE Stock Footage.
Not many video editors, content producers, marketing VPs and web marketers have learned to utilize this tip to improve video production quality and save money. This tip is 100% free to utilize and is ridiculously simple. If you will develop the habit of using this trick you will save money and for web marketers you will have the best looking video content on the web.
Here’s the Tip.
Utilize all of the FREE stock video footage and stock photography that is available online. All you need to do is be made aware that most, if not ALL, stock footage and photography houses offer FREE stock footage. Some of them offer one or two free clips weekly and some of these clips are very good.
For example, at my company, StockShotsNow.com, we offer several royalty free stock video clips absolutely free and available for immediate download. Not only can you down load our clips for FREE on the spot, but once you have signed up for our newsletter or have downloaded a FREE video clip from us then you will get emails periodically with many more free stock video clips. You can download one free stock video footage clip right now by clicking here.
Here’s how I get the most of these FREE stock footage video clips and free stock photographs and illustrations. I subscribe to the newsletters of multiple stock footage houses. Some of them offer FREE stock video clips every single week. So if you are looking to save money and improve production quality on your video production and web content then go subscribe to some of these stock footage newsletters and start downloading the FREE stock video clips and stock photographs everytime they make a new clip available.
Here are a few sites that I know offer FREE stock footage clips and stock photographs and illistrations on a regular bases:
This is the key to making this worth your time. Once you have subscribed to these stock footage newsletters and have downloaded some free stock footage then get organized. This is the key to taking advantage of these stock video clips and stock photographs. You want to set up a folder on your computer and devise a system to organizing all of the free stock video clips you download. Then, next time you are creating video content for the web or for a marketing video start by looking through your stock footage library. You will be surprised at how often you can utilize a clip or a picture that you downloaded for free. Follow this same pattern with any royalty free stock footage or royalty free stock photagraphy that you purchase as well and you will be well on your way to improving the quality of the video content you produce and you will save money in the process.
