This is the Technobroz List Of Best FREE Stock Video Footage Websites.  As a creative on a budget, if you need free stock video clips for your project or work. Thankfully, there are websites offering high-quality HD and 4K footage free of charge that you can use royalty-free and copyright-free for both personal and commercial use. In this blog, we will mention, the top five sites we've used to download free stock video footage for YouTube and other projects.

Technobroz List Of Best FREE Stock Video Footage Websites

Best FREE Stock Video Footage Websites

1. Pexels 
2. Pixabay 
3. Videvo
4. Videezy
5. Mixkit
6. Dareful
7. Freepik 

1. Pexels 

With more than 30,000 videos in both HD and 4K in their collection, you're more likely to find what you're looking for on this site. Selecting the free download dropdown menu gives you many choices of resolutions to pick from. 

If you go below the video and select more info, it'll give you the original dimensions, aspect ratio, duration, and frames per second. The Pexels license allows for personal and commercial use. No attribution is required, and all content can be modified to suit your needs.

2. Pixabay 

Pixabay is one of our favorites for free stock photos, it's also a fantastic resource when looking for free stock footage with thousands of videos to choose from. All videos on here are submitted by users in its community and are completely free, so you don't have to deal with sorting out any premium content.

Most are in HD, with a decent selection in 4k. They make it easy to download any footage to your computer. Just go to download here on the right, select the resolution, and then click on download. All content on this site carries the Pixabay license. It's fairly straightforward. You can use the content for free for both personal use and commercial use with only a few limitations, and modifications are allowed. Attribution is not required but recommended.

3. Videvo

Videvo offers thousands of free stock videos and motion graphics that were created by their community members, most of which are in HD, with a small selection also in 4k. After doing a search, if you only want to see the free stock footage, click on filters, in clip type uncheck premium clips, only free clips should be checked. 

You can also filter by duration, resolution, license type, and categories. On any website, it's important to read over the license details before downloading any clips. For example, if a video has a royalty-free license, which allows you to use it for any project that you want, but the copyright remains with the creator. 

This essentially means that you cannot redistribute the clip in its original form; an example would be making the stock clip available to download on another website. 

4. Videezy

Videezy offers a large collection of high-quality videos in both HD and 4K resolution, all of which are royalty-free for both personal and commercial use. On their homepage, instead of doing a typical search, you can browse the newest videos. But what is helpful, depending on the project you work on, is to browse by category.

You'll find several categories and subcategories. Some of the categories we found useful in the past include aerial, animals and wildlife, art, nature, travel, urban, and abstract. After doing a search, you can filter on the left by file type, license type, resolution, and format. 

In addition to the free clips, you'll see that some of the results have a green tag that says Pro. These are what they call premium clips that require paying with credits. There are various types of licenses on Videezy. Below any video that you want to use, click on license info. A Videezy standard license is their most common type of license for free footage. This lets you use the clip for both personal and commercial use. Attribution is also required in one of the two ways listed.

5. Mixkit

The folks at Envato Elements offer a curated collection of free videos in a variety of categories. Be careful to look at the license when downloading any videos, as some are not allowed for any commercial projects, including for use on YouTube.

6. Dareful

Dareful is the site created by and the footage was shot by Joel Holland, the founder of VideoBlocks. While the selection is limited, what you'll find here is all in stunning 4K resolution. All videos on the site carry the Creative Commons BY 4.0 DEED license, which allows usage in personal and commercial projects, and attribution is required. 

7. Freepik 

Freepik is one of the best places to download stock images, vectors, and other design assets. They now offer more than 20,000 HD and 4K stock videos for free in their library. 

Similar to the previous site, if you only want to see the free content available after a search, select filters in the upper left, then under license, click on free.

There are also various other filters to narrow down the selection, including video type, resolution, duration, aspect ratio, FPS (which stands for frames per second), and category. Go to resolution and have it only show 4K videos. The free stock videos on Freepik are made available for both personal and commercial use. Attribution is also required, giving credit to Freepik wherever you use the stock video footage.

Conclusion

I hope the article was helpful to you. I am hopeful that this article helped you to discover new and old useful video stock websites that you can use in your project or commercially. Some of the sites I have mentioned are completely free and some of them can be used under certain licenses.