Welcome to the Clip Archive
This archive features previews and download links for over 3000 free clips created by forum members at www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums, by Movietools.info, by particleIllusion software from wondertouch and by FootageFirm.com and StockFootageforFree.com. Because of the page load times required for the numerous images, the "Clip Archive" has been broken out into separate pages featuring the works of each clip creator. Please click on the links below to preview clips created by:
- KathoKatho - a collection of over 230 clips
- HitTheBongo - a collection of over 160 clips
- SevententhLetterFilms - a collection of 25 clips
- SamHogy - a collection of 16 clips
- Dickmr - a collection of 30 clips
- PippasGhost - a collection of 2 clips
- Stock Footage - a collection of 12 stock footage clips contributed by forum members at www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums
- particleIllusion - a collection of over 2260 clips generated using the free emitter libraries included with particleIllusion software by wondertouch
- Neophyte - a collection of 24 clips
- Movietools.info - a collection of 104 clips
- Footage Firm and Stock Footage for Free - a collection of 158 free stock footage clips
Below, you will also find links to other websites that offer a variety of free downloads of trailers, stock footage, movies, etc. Hopefully, you will find the "Clip Archive" is a convenient starting point for locating material for your Windows Movie Maker projects.
You may download all of materials on this site and use them for free as long as their use is for personal, non-commercial purposes; permission has been obtained from the creators to make them available to you through this website subject to this restriction on use. However, redistribution of these materials is prohibited without the prior consent of the creator. It is also requested that you acknowledge the creator(s) in any movie that uses any of these materials. NOTE: Please check the use policies and restrictions on any material that you download from other websites to determine if your intended use is permissible.
If you have clips you would like to include in this archive or know of other sites that should be included in the list below, please send me an email via the "Contact Me" page.
Links
The websites listed below also offer free downloads of various video clips and movies. However, a number of the clips/movies offered by these sites are in a file format Movie Maker does not support and will need to be converted to a Movie Maker 'friendly' format before importing them into a Movie Maker project.
- Chiconet's clips - a collection of free clips from forum member chiconet including explosions, bullets. Particle Illusions, plus others
- PapaJohn's Online Video web page - a number of free 12 second countdown clips
- Clips by Lilsouna - a set of four, free flash video clips from forum member Lilsouna
- Clips by fishycomics - two Spiderman clips from forum member fishycomics
- Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP - includes the Windows Movie Maker Creativity Kit which has a collection of sound effects, music loops, clips, title videos, and images
- 2D Media - site is in German; but, click on the images on the left hand side to be taken to a page where the clips can be downloaded.
- Video for Powerpoint - set of nine low resolution background clips
- Free Vision Series Backdrops - set of three clips from Sony
- Internet Archive - Moving Images - library of free movies, films, and videos containing thousands of digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre uploaded by Archive users.
- Wikimedia Commons - a collection of over 180 video files.
- The Open Video Project - repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
- Media College - three free high definition video clips
- The European Homepage for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope - collection of free videos, animations and images from the European Space Agency and the Hubble telescope
- NASA'a Educational Media Archive - a collection of free educational videos from NASA
- Free Movie Downloads - The Best Web Sites for Free Movie Downloads - Part 1 - About.com article providing listing and links for free movie download sites
- Free Movie Downloads - The Best Web Sites for Free Movie Downloads - Part 2 - Second part of About.com article providing additional listing and links for free movie download sites
- Tech23.com - a collection of 29 Quicktime video loops
- Suite Imagery - free animation download offered every month; free registration required to download clips
- Digital Hotcakes - free clip download offered every month; free registration required to download clips
- MotionLoops.com - free clip download offered every week; requires sign-up via submission of your email address
- Creative-Content - 11 free DV-PAL clips available for download
- Detonation Films - variety of free DV-NTSC clips available for download including explosions, fire, muzzle flashes, etc.
- mike pan's online portfolio - a collection of 6 Vista DreamScene videos and 6 computer generated animations
- Edison Collection, Library of Congress - a collection of over 300 motion pictures plus various sound recordings and photographs
- Public Domain Comedy Video - a large collection of TV shows and vinatge movies
- FX Home - a collection 14 stock effects for weather, muzzle flashes, etc.
- Trainorders.com - a collection of over 1000 railroad related video clips; free registration required to download clips
- NATO Multimedia Library - a collection of videos, photos and recordings of NATO events and exercises
- Mac Mave Studios Stock Footage - a collection of CGI clips of explosions, muzzle flashes and blood splats; site is in German
- Digital Juice - a collection of videos, music tracks and images; free registration and subscription to newsletter required to download clips
- Royalty Free Stock Video Footage.com - a large collection of free video clips (including a number of high definition clips); free registration required to download clips
- IgniteMotion.com - a collection of Quicktime background loops
- Wavebreak Media - free video/3D animation downloads each month with free registration; additional royalty free items available for a fee
- iMovies - offers public domain movies featuring classics, cartoons and shorts
- NARA National Archives - offers a collection of historical movies, including NASA footage of various space scenes
- Public Domain Torrent - offers nearly a thousand movies in various formats
- EMOL - offers selection of public domain videos