10 Video Banks to Download for FREE AND FREE TO USE

Videos are one of the formats with the greatest impact in recent years since it allows users to connect quickly and combine them with various resources such as music, effects and also transport each consumer at the moment.

Creating videos is not an easy activity, because it is necessary to follow the following steps:

1. Write the concept of the video and what you want to highlight, and part of this is the writing of the content that will be shown and if within this there is a script for each participant.
2. Once defined, it is time to prepare the location and resources. And depending on the quality, it is necessary to hire professional teams, to obtain a better quality material.
3. Once all the material has been recorded, it is necessary to invest considerable time to edit the material, and for this, it is necessary to have technical knowledge in the use of professional tools.
4. And later use the created material.

Although I am presenting the last steps in a very general vision, without going into detail, it is a great amount of work and resources invested. For this reason, many professionals decide to create informative videos, in which they use material previously recorded by other professionals and thus maintain quality and speed up development time.

Bank of paid and free videos

There are paid video banks and free ones. The former usually work through different rates or subscriptions that allow you to download specific content depending on the plan you have purchased. While the free platforms the number of downloads is unlimited, although the quality of their material is not as high as that of a paid bank.

Mostly free platforms are related to using licenses and depending on each one of them, it has a limit with respect to what you can do with audiovisual material.

• Personal Use: the videos can be used for personal purposes from digital platforms, projects, among others.
• Professional or commercial use: it is used mainly for the development of advertising pieces and to promote products, services, and the brand; for this, it is necessary to know the policies of use or buy the right to use it.

CC0 license

If they are banks to download the videos for free, they will be related to the CC0 license or to one of the 6 licenses that currently exist. However, if it becomes a public domain license (CC0), it has the following uses:

• The videos can be used for personal and commercial projects.
• The CC0 license can be copied, modified, shared, or mixed with other content.
• It can be used without requesting permission from the author, only if it is a CC0.

In a few words, you can use it as you wish, but you have to read the policies of each platform and see under which CC license it is associated.

10 video banks

Video banks are ideal tools for content creators when developing audiovisual content with a reduced budget or due to lack of time.

Pexels

It is one of the most used platforms to obtain images or photographs, but today I will mention it again because it has an incredible section to download and obtain high-quality videos.

The videos they have are free to use, therefore, it is free, you can download them if you have previously registered and the videos can be modified and used personally or commercially. Has a lot of important categories

Pexels Features

• Do you have a search engine ?: yes
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: CC0, however, if you want to mention or attribute the creator of the video, it will be a great support, to encourage shared content.
• The average length of videos: in most videos, it does not exceed 15 seconds.
• Average video resolution : 1920px x 1080px (Full HD)
• Registration: Not necessary

Videezy

A space that offers an interesting repertoire of free high-resolution videos, and also has a pro version, in which it is necessary to acquire credits and access the content (1 credit costs around 19 USD and has a license of 10 credits with a value from 49 USD).

Videezy Features

• Do you have a search engine ?: yes
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: CC0, however, has a pro version, in which you must pay to access exclusive content
• The average length of videos: in most videos, it does not exceed 15 seconds.
• Average video resolution : 1920px x 1080px
• Registration: Not necessary

Video

It is an incredible bank that offers more than 28 thousand resources between videos, music, sound effects, and motion graphics. The videos are organized into categories and by popularity. And it has a paid license, which starts at 14.99 USD per month.

Video Features

• Do you have a search engine ?: yes
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: it can be used in all projects and media, but you must credit the author.
• The average length of videos: in most videos, it does not exceed 20 seconds.
• Average video resolution : 1920px x 1080px
• Registration: Not necessary

Cover

Every Monday they incorporate 7 new videos, the quality of the videos, in general, is high and can be downloaded without prior registration. Personally, I recommend you subscribe and it will notify you every time new content is incorporated.

The Cover. co license does not include the right of use:

• Trademarks, Logos, or Trademarks Appearing on Videos
• Images of people if they are recognizable in the videos

Cover Features

• Do you have a search engine ?: yes
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: CC0, however, has a pro version, in which you must pay to access exclusive content
• The average length of videos: in most videos, it does not exceed 20 seconds.
• Average video resolution : 1920px x 1080px
• Registration: Not necessary

Mazwai

It is a bank of free videos with a cinematographic style, it is characterized by having a wide repertoire of collections of free-of-law videos and is under the attribution license.

Mazwai Features

• Do you have a search engine ?: yes
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: it can be used in the project, but you must credit the author.
• The average length of videos: in most videos, it is 60 seconds. Although it has long videos of more than 4 minutes.
• Average video resolution: 1280px x 720px
• Registration: Not necessary

Life of Vids

An exclusive bank of videos, clips, and loops; It is an open space hosted on Vimeo, and people can contribute their work.

Life of Vids features

• Do you have a search engine ?: yes
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: it can be used in the project, but you must credit the author.
• The average length of videos: in most videos, they are 30 seconds on average.
• Average video resolution: offers 8 resolutions, which can be selected by users.
• Registration: Not necessary

Pond5

It is a space that offers creative content such as videos, music tracks, sound effects, photos, and much more. The free version has around 340 thousand videos that you can download videos, but author attribution must be made and it also has a paid version that has a value of around 50 euros.

Pond5 Features

• Do you have a search engine ?: yes
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: only for personal projects.
• The average length of videos: in most videos, they are 30 seconds on average.
• Average video resolution : 1920px x 1080px
• Registration: if necessary

Pixabay

One of the best-known banks to download photos and images, and they also offer high-quality HD and 4K videos, openly licensed for commercial and personal use.

Pixabay Features

• Do you have a search engine ?: yes
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: CC0, however, if you want to mention or attribute the creator of the video, it will be a great support, to encourage shared content.
• The average length of videos: in most videos, they are 30 seconds on average.
• Average video resolution : offer various resolutions from 1280px x 720px to 3840px x 2160px
• Registration: not necessary

Dareful

A video bank offering free 4K content, can be used for commercial and personal projects, all the archival video on Dareful.com was filmed by Joel Holland. This space was previously known as StockFootageforFree.com. The content they offer is under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international license, in short, it requires attribution.

Dareful Features

• Do you have a search engine ?: yes
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: CC0, however, if it is required to mention or attribute the creator of the video
• The average length of videos: in most videos, they are 30 seconds on average.
• Average video resolution: 1280px x 720px
• Registration: if necessary

X Stock Video

It is a space that shares videos, which can be used in personal projects without limits, but, if you want to use the footage for commercial purposes (a film or television production, commercial application, game, YouTube with additions or other software), you can purchase an Extended License for a small fee.

X Stock Video Features

• Do you have a search engine ?: no
• Filters: can be filtered by tags and category
• Icon formats: .mp4, .mov
• Licenses: CC0, however, if it is required to mention or attribute the creator of the video
• The average length of videos: in most videos, they are 30 seconds on average.
• Average video resolution : they offer various resolutions from 960px x 540px to 1920px x 1080px
• Registration: not necessary

If you want to access more exclusive high-quality material, you can visit paid platforms like Shutterstock.

conclusion

The use of video banks is a basic resource that we must have in our hands to be able to create audiovisual content, and thus have another format to be able to share on digital channels and show the content with a dynamic and interactive style for users.