Stock Video Footage

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2010-05-07T01:29:00.000-07:00

Dear friend,

This blog has MOVED - you can find more relevant posts at the Clipcanvas Stock Footage Blog. Thanks for getting up to date with our business, and please post a message to our Twitter account if you have something cool to share. Best regards, the team at Clipcanvas.com.

PS - this is the final post and no more comments will be moderated. If you need stock footage, you know where to go;-)

Clipcanvas.com - Now offering 80.000+ video clips and HD footage from only 9€

2010-05-03T03:00:00.000-07:00

Press Release (Oslo, May 3rd 2010) Clipcanvas.com reports they are now offering more than 80.000 stock footage clips from all over the world, with prices starting as low as 9 euros for HD footage. This rapidly growing HD collection features video content for documentary film production, TV-series, commercials, corporate videos and independent film production.

"Our growth over the past year has been phenomenal" says the company´s founder and CEO Cato Salter. "In effect, we have grown to take one of the leading positions in the stock footage industry, offering HD video for true professionals that won´t compromise on quality. We have been particular in what we allow into our database, and have had to turn down a lot of video material."

The rapid growth is partly due to our highly efficient tagging interface and format conversion technology says Cato. "We strive to be the best, focus on technology development and are offering what is probably the most efficient stock video search interface available to filmmakers, footage researchers, video editors, producers and creatives. Also, our royalty payout rate of 60% to producers has always been the best in the industry, attracting high quality footage and filmmaker talent."

The best is yet to come, according to Cato. "We are now also offering HD stock footage from only 9€ per download, making it affordable for mostly any production budget. Up until now we have been focusing on building the collection and attracting talent. Offering HD footage at 9€ is the first in a series of steps in making truly high quality footage more available to the professional production community." The marketplace attracts a broad array of clients, ranging from TV channels, large corporations, production houses and film studios to freelance editors, creatives and independent filmmakers.

"A lot of videographers and filmmakers are making good money offering their footage for sale with us. Even if our sales have been growing steadily over the past twelve months, this is only the beginning. When they are happy - we are happy, so we will continue to improve our offering in making professional stock footage available and affordable to producers, editors and filmmakers - stock footage is our business" says Cato.

He goes on "So long as we continue to offer the best talent and stock footage at an affordable price, this is going to get even better. In our most recent customer survey, more than 97% stated they were so satisfied with buying footage from us they would happily recommend us to their colleagues and friends - and we are so happy with this we guarantee satisfaction for our customers, or they get their money back."

Website: http://www.clipcanvas.com

About Clipcanvas.com

Clipcanvas is one of the worlds largest and fastest growing HD stock video marketplaces, currently offering over 80.000 royalty free stock footage clips in broadcast quality. It is free to sign up, and you can download and try any clip for free. You get HD footage from only 9 €, and the growing collection covers a wide range of categories from all over the world, including people and lifestyle, nature and travel, time lapse, animations, motion video backgrounds and alpha channel clips. All clips are immediately downloadable in PAL or NTSC in 18 different editing formats including Prores HQ, DVCPRO, AVID, PhotoJPG, WMV or H.264, as well as the original format. Clipcanvas was launched by a team of Norwegians in 2008, and is based in Oslo, Norway.

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Royalty Free Music – not as simple as it sounds

2010-03-19T15:49:00.000-07:00

For most users of stock footage and stock images, the term “royalty free” is considered pretty simple and straightforward. The image/footage is either royalty-free, or royalty payable. If it's royalty-free, then there are no royalties to pay, regardless of the type of usage.

Not quite so with royalty free music. In the world of stock music, music licensing and music publishing, things are a little more complicated; mainly because of the existence of Performance Rights Organizations, or “PRO's”, such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN, GEMA, PRS, TONO, STIM, BUMA/STEMRA and others.

Whenever you see the term “Royalty free music” or “Stock music” advertised online (or indeed offline), you should be aware that the music is probably royalty-free for some uses, but not for all uses. The most common meaning of the term royalty-free music is that the music is royalty-free for Synchronization - The right to put the music into your film or other media – and for Mechanical duplication - the right to produce CD's, DVD's, videos, discs, etc. with your film that contains use of the music.

However, and this is where it gets a little bit more complicated, “royalty free music” is usually not royalty free for broadcasting or in-public play. Usually, the composers and/or publishers of the music are members of a Performance Rights Organization (PRO) such as those mentioned above, and any person or company who wants to either broadcast the music, or play it in a public space, will need to buy a license from their own country's PRO.

The various PRO's represent each other in their respective countries. For example, the German PRO is called GEMA, and for any broadcasting and in-public play in Germany, ALL the various PRO's are represented by GEMA. In Sweden the PRO is called STIM, and for any music broadcasting or in-public play in Sweden, all the various PRO's are represented by STIM. And so on.

It may come as a bit of a surprise for a customer in Sweden who has licensed some “royalty free music” for use in a corporate video, to be billed by STIM later because it turned out that the composer was a member of ASCAP in USA, which is represented by STIM in Sweden, and while the music was royalty-free for use on a DVD, it was in fact not royalty-free for in-public play – something which only became an issue after the DVD was played from a large screen at a trade fair.

The issues are further complicated by the fact that the various PRO's in different countries have slightly different rules. But, as they represent each other in “their” countries, music composed by an American composer who is a member of ASCAP, when his music is used in the United Kingdom, will be subject to the usage terms of the PRS (the UK PRO), not the terms of ASCAP, where the composer is actually a member.

Exactly what is considered a “broadcast” or “in-public play” varies from country to country. Some PRO's consider use on a website to be a broadcast. For example, a company in the UK with a UK website, using music composed by any PRO composer, needs to buy an “online usage license” from the PRS – even if the music was legally purchased on a “royalty free” music website. Remember, the music was most likely royalty free for Synchronization and Mechanical duplication – but not for broadcasting. And the PRS considers website use to be a broadcast.

The same goes for telephone on-hold music. Some PRO's in some countries consider this to be a broadcast or in-public play – others do not. As a music user, you are subject to the terms of the PRO in your country, regardless of which PRO the composer is actually a member of.

For these reasons, when you look for royalty-free music online, you need to be a little more vigilant than what you are used to from browsing stock video or stock photos, and perhaps read the small-print in the license terms before going ahead and selecting your music. In addition to finding the music you need and reading up on the license terms of the vendor, be sure to check whether or not the composer is a PRO member. Most composers are PRO members. If it doesn't say specifically that the composer is not a PRO member, you need to assume that he is.

About the author:

Bjorn Lynne is a composer of music for video games, videos, films, plays and exhibitions. He is a friend of Clipcanvas and owns the stock music company Lynne Publishing and two different royalty free music websites: www.Shockwave-Sound.com (both PRO and non-PRO music) and www.1RoyaltyFreeMusic.com (only 100% royalty free music by non-PRO composers).

Free videos - download videos for video production

2009-11-24T07:46:00.000-08:00

Visit Clipcanvas regularly and download free videos. Use it in your presentation, online video or video project. We will update the free video page regularly with new free video downloads for your benefit, so please bookmark the page and check back again soon!

The free video download is offered in h264 mp4 format. The small size and great quality of this video codec makes it ideal for use in online video and powerpoint presentations.

The free video clip that is offered clip is a sampler of one of the web formats we deliver all our clips in. If you require video for broadcasting purposes, or have other uses of HD video or high resolution clips, you can sign up to buy and download videos in full quality. To sample all our delivery formats, you can check out our video clip downloads page.

We hope you like the service we offer.

Videos libre de derechos Stock Footage y animaciones

2009-11-08T09:27:00.000-08:00

Clipcanvas es un mercado de secuencias de vídeo que ofrece videos libres de derechos, Stock Footage y animaciones. El servicio está actualmente en Inglés, pero trabajamos para ofrecer el servicio también en español. Mientras tanto, por favor, tómese su tiempo y ver si hay cualquier clip de vídeo que se pueden utilizar para la producción de vídeo y el trabajo de post producción.

Ofrecemos la mayoría de codecs de video para descargar y todos los clips están disponibles gratuitamente muestras como marca de agua al iniciar la sesión pulg. Usted puede descargar clips de compra dentro de un par de minutos después de la compra.

Buscar Videos Libres de Derechos y animaciones en Inglés >>

Buena suerte!

The birth of stock footage?

2009-04-08T16:34:00.001-07:00

Hi!
Check out this article from the NYTimes on the origins of stock footage. Nice backdrop for all those interested in the subject.
Link: "New York Vérité (Sort of), by Alex Rose, NYTimes"