From the course: HitFilm Express: Creating a Presentation Video
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Finding free stock images, sounds, and music
From the course: HitFilm Express: Creating a Presentation Video
Finding free stock images, sounds, and music
- Once you've been making videos for a while, you'll probably find yourself building up a stock collection of media. This might be video or images or music or sound effects. Now if you're just starting out you probably don't have this kind of stuff. But the good news is that there's loads of really good resources online to start building up your own collection. If you're looking for an image to help illustrate a point, or to put behind a green screen shot of your presenter, then you can of course turn to places like Google image search. What you do have to be cautious about though, is copyright. 'Cause Google will throw up a load of images regardless of whether their creators would want you to actually use them. So how seriously you have to consider copyright would depend entirely on the type of video you're making and where it's going to be shown. But if you're making something for professional use, chances are you should take it very seriously and especially if you're going to be…
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