Pond5.com - Buy or Sell Stock Video Footage and Animated Special Effects

Do you have stock video footage you would like to offer moviemakers while making a few extra bucks for yourself in the process? Or are you a moviemaker in Kansas looking to include a scene of the beach in your opus, but with no access to beach footage without treading into the dangerous waters of copyright infringement? For both people, there is an interesting web site that may be of use. Pond5.com is a site where you can either buy stock footage at a low price, or share in the royalties of selling your own stock footage.

Sometimes a budding filmmaker just doesn’t have access to certain video footage that he really needs and he has no way of getting it easily. If this sounds like you, then browse through the stock video footage available at Pond5.com. You can either do a keyword search for exactly what you are looking for or you can browse by category. Among the categories Pond5.com offers: backgrounds and textures, church and ministry, scenery, sports, and even effects.

If your opus calls for time-lapse photography of clouds moving overhead, but you just aren’t sophisticated enough with your video editing software to know how to do it, then Pond5.com offers a multitude of selections. Another interesting bit of stock video footage is one featuring a meteor rolling through space with a green screen behind it, allowing you to key in any background behind the meteor you want. These examples are merely the tip of a very large iceberg of stock video footage available.

Clearly Pond5.com isn’t just a place that buys footage of people who’ve gone outside and shot some trees. There are many highly sophisticated animated renderings to be found here that inventive and creative filmmakers could find many uses for. Do you need a walking stegosaurus set against a blue screen? Here it is, though be aware that purchasing this particular segment will set you back $200. Still, that’s pretty small potatoes if you don’t have the talent to create an image such as this yourself.