{"id":4322,"date":"2020-10-28T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:58:59","slug":"how-to-use-stock-footage-when-editing-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/blog\/how-to-use-stock-footage-when-editing-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Stock Footage When Editing Your Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you make YouTube videos, commercials, music videos or any type of visual content, you\u2019ve probably wanted to use certain footage you weren\u2019t able to shoot on your own. For those unfamiliar, these types of clips are called \u201cstock footage\u201d or \u201cb-roll footage<\/a>.\u201d Stock footage is a video shot by others that you can use in your project.<\/p>\n

All sorts of footage can be captured for stock clips. A few common stock footage types are people walking on streets or animals in nature or even landscapes. Documentaries feature a lot of stock footage clips. Filmmakers use it to break up the visual monotony of interviews and other original shots. Stock footage clips tend to be on the shorter side\u2014anywhere from a few seconds to just under a minute. Longer stock footage clips do exist, but they are pretty rare.<\/p>\n

Stock footage companies might employ some in-house filmmakers or videographers, but most stock clips come from independent, freelance creators. Some stock footage creators could be on a freelance assignment, but many shoot footage, upload it to a stock footage platform, like Artlist.io, and get paid royalties when their clips are downloaded. Uploading your shots to a stock footage site can be an excellent way to make passive income<\/a>, but you need to be sure of their quality. If you\u2019re interested in going out and filming footage for stock, check out these tips for\u00a0how to sell stock footage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Online platforms like Artlist and others make stock footage more accessible and affordable to all types of content creators. And unlike traditional stock footage companies where you pay per-clip, Artlist offers content creators subscription-based licensing for royalty-free video clips<\/a>. For example, Artlist subscribers get unlimited downloads of clips that they can use as many times as they want in any video project, whether it\u2019s YouTube, TikTok, commercials, documentaries and more.<\/p>\n

Finding the right stock footage<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This might seem a little obvious, but finding the right stock clips is super important. In other words, don\u2019t just pick the first clip you see. Take your time and dig for the right shot, like you\u2019re a DJ looking through crates of vinyl records.<\/p>\n