HD stock video banks (I)

Video gives us greater dynamism in our work. Websites, advertisements, video clips, corporate video ... The uses that we can give to video are unlimited. Generally, when working on this type of project, it is logical and normal for the creators to record or create most of the content. However, there are many occasions when we need to resort to a video bank with a totally professional quality, or by assembly errors and unforeseen events, or by inability to carry out a shoot. 

That is why I propose five banks of professional videos and in HD and Full HD quality, so that you take them into account when working on these types of concepts. Anyway, in later posts I will continue this selection but if you consider that I have left an important alternative, you know ... Commentary!

• Fotolia: This option groups vectors, videos, photographs and logos of a totally professional quality and a price from € 0,74 per credit in the case of videos. All the videos in your catalog are free of rights and can be added to our works in a totally free way and without time or other limits, once we buy them they are totally ours.

• Youtube channel: We can download high quality videos (1080 format) and completely free of charge. It suits you if you are looking for a semi-professional result and are interested in working with nature and landscape videos. As a weak point, it must be said that they do not have a large catalog although on the other hand they do not require any type of registration to be able to download the videos.

• Shutterstock: It brings together photos, vectors, illustrations, music and video. It presents us with almost two million videos of totally professional quality, allowing us to download a free sample and also gives us the possibility of buying the video in different qualities. The prices of course vary depending on the quality and duration. To give you an idea, a video for the web can cost around € 19, one in SD quality for 39, for HD quality 59 and in 4K quality for 229. It requires registration and offers us a wide catalog to choose from.

• 123RF: It is a very large bank that includes photographs, video, audio and vectors. It requires registration and offers several ranges of video in terms of price. One of its strengths is that it offers different plans based on the user's needs. We can purchase a plan through a daily subscription, through a credit system or through download packages. Each of these options offers different alternatives.

• Audiovisual Bank: We will find photographs, video and sound both in free mode and in premium mode. It offers us a wide variety even though only 5% of the file fund is shown. In case of not finding what we are looking for, we can always contact the administrators of the page so that they can review the complete fund. It stands out for how well categorized the files are, giving us a detailed file of each one of them, including the time, geographical location, format, aspect ratio ...