Locating Sources of Movie Clips

Not sure where to find video clips? Here are some places to start:

• Your own video camera. You can connect a digital video camera directly to your PC, or connect an analog video camera to an adapter board that digitizes its input.

• The Clip Organizer. When you're connected to the Internet, you get the whole collection as you browse.

• The Internet in general. There are millions of interesting video clips on every imaginable subject. Use the search term video clips plus a few keywords that describe the type of clips you are looking for. Yahoo! is a good place to start looking (http://www.yahoo.com). Some clips are copyrighted or have usage limitations, but others can be used freely; check the usage information provided with the clip.

Caution 

Whenever you get a video clip from the Internet, make sure you carefully read any restrictions or usage agreements to avoid copyright violations. If you create a presentation using copyrighted material in an unauthorized way, you or your company could potentially get sued.

• Commercial collections of video clips and animated GIFs. Many of these companies advertise on the Internet and provide free samples for downloading. Several such companies have included samples on the CD that accompanies this book.

• The Internet Archive. (http://www.archive.org). This site contains links to huge repositories of public domain footage on all subjects, mostly pre-1964 material on which the copyright has expired. Warning-you can easily get sucked in here and waste several days browsing!