Rights managed stock footage is a sure fire way to ensure that you have high quality video imagery from a stock footage library to compliment any original footage for your video project. With hundreds of film production companies coming out with high quality stock footage, you’ll find lots of useful additions to boost the visual aesthetics and increases the level of professionalism to your project. While rights managed stock footage is definitely a bargain buy when you consider the costs of putting together your own crew, building sets and acquiring the equipment, there are still many things you’ll want to understand before taking advantage of this type of footage.
The first thing you’ll want to know is that, unlike royalty free stock footage which is purchased with a one-time fee and free to use as often as you wish, rights managed clips are still owned by someone else and the owner of that footage possesses all the rights to when and how the clip is used. The quality of the footage is almost assuredly to be on a level that will improve your project; you will certainly have to pay the fee for the rights to use it every time you want to include it in a project. Rights managed stock footage certainly brings an additional cost to your production and it can be well worth it due to the high quality footage you’ll receive from the providers.
The next thing you’ll want to be aware of when accessing the footage is what format the file is in. There are several options, whether you are looking for video footage that is in DV or HD, and there are obviously additional costs for converting files to match with the other footage with which you are working. Since there are so many options available, you’ll want to pay attention since the extra cost to have it converted to the format you need isn’t inexpensive and may degrade the quality of the footage.
Those who produce this type of footage produced it specifically for people who are doing video projects and they know their clips will save you money. So with that comes a premium price for what could be deemed as rare footage. This means that it’s still an investment to purchase the rights to use any rights managed or HD stock footage, even though it’s still less expensive than shooting your own, so getting the right clip for your video project is essential.
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