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Video Project Guide

How to plan, record, find, and edit a video.

Finding Videos and Images

Video

Use the filter search feature on each site to find Creative Commons-licensed content (CC). Capture video via screen recording using Quicktime on Macs or PowerPoint on PCs.

YouTube The largest video-sharing website, which allows users to upload, view, share and find videos  | 
Archive.org Non-profit digital library with collections of digitized free movies, music, images, websites and more
Vimeo Video-sharing website, more focused on high-quality creative content  | 
Google Video Use the Google Video search to browse the web for videos not necessarily hosted on YouTube  | 

 

Images and Photographs

Use the filter search feature on each site to find CC-licensed content.

Openverse A Creative Commons search portal that provides convenient access to CC-searches
on sharing sites
Archive.org Non-profit digital library with collections of digitized free movies, music, images,
websites and more
Flickr A large image-hosting site with professional and amateur photographs  | 
Wikimedia Commons Online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files

Finding Sounds and Music

Download licensed or public domain sound for inclusion in your video. Capture audio from your browser using tools like Chrome Audio Capture.

Openverse Use this multimedia search engine to find various types of CC-licensed items from
sources including Google Images, Soundcloud, Jamendo, Flickr and more
Free Sound A collaborative database of CC-licensed sound. Freesound focuses on
sound and sound effects, not music
Archive.org Non-profit digital library with collections of digitized free movies, music,
images, websites and more
Free Music Archive CC-licensed music grouped by genre  | 
ccMixter CC-licensed music for film, video and games  | 
CCTrax CC-licensed music grouped by genre  | 
Incompetech CC-licensed and royalty-free music from one composer  | 
Soundcloud Audio-sharing site with a decent amount of CC-licensed music  |