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Article: Affordable Video Clips.
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- Camcorder & Computer Video
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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There's A Big Drop In The Price Of Stock Footage
A few years ago I was working on a video project and thought I could use some stock footage. I was looking for what should have been common footage such as Alaskan glaciers and Hawaiian volcanoes. After a few calls to the usual stock footage suspects, I found the footage that I could use. And this is where this happy story turns sad. The typical cost for the footage was $30 per second of footage, minimum of 15 seconds, with some amazing restrictions on usage. For DVD use, I could use the footage, but if anybody EVER broadcast a segment of my DVD, with or without permission, I could expect to hear from the stock ...