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Choose from a wide selection of royalty free video clips to meet your needs. Our free stock video library offers free video footage as well as free hd videos for download.

All our Elements are compatible with various video editing softwares such as Sony Vegas Pro, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro X.

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They can be used to create videos for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Twitch, Vimeo, broadcast, commercials, film & tv, online ads, websites, weddings, games, marketing, presentations, applications, non-profits, NFTs & Metaverse platforms and all platforms that will be created in the future.

Royalty-free describes intellectual property that can be used without having to pay royalties. Once a one-time fee is paid for a royalty-free license, the buyer is free to use it without having to pay recurring fees to the intellectual property owner.

While a royalty-free license gives a person the right to use it, the intellectual property still belongs to the original owner. Anyone who buys a royalty-free license is entitled to use the same content. In other words, royalty-free content is not exclusive.

However, there are many perks of using royalty-free content. A buyer does not need to attribute the owner and each content can be used as many times as desired in as many projects as possible.

You can use After Effects on your computer with Windows or Mac.

Open the provided project file on a computer with After Effects already installed. Instead of designing moving images from scratch, you can create videos rather easily by placing your own audiovisual assets in the designated compositions and layers of the project.

After Effects is a video-compositing software developed by Adobe Inc. It is used to create visual effects (VFX), motion graphics, animation, etc. The After Effects template is its pre-animated project with some customizable components in it.

You will often find two types of resources available: 1) After Effects template and 2) After Effects animation preset.

The After Effects template will come with an After Effects project file. You can create a whole video by simply replacing image/video assets or changing the intensity of effects within it.

The After Effects animation preset is a file containing specific settings of layer properties and animations, including effects, keyframes and expressions. In an effect preset you are provided with a file with extension “ffx.” Before using it, you need to store this file in the specific folder in your own computer; the Presets folder located in the Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC\Support Files (Windows) or Applications/Adobe After Effects CC (Mac OS) folder. In the After Effects project, you can use it by a drag and drop action to layers just like other generic effects. Color grading, image transitions and text effects are those found most frequently in this file type.

Some templates require the use of third-party plug-ins. It is important to check the requirements of templates before you buy them because they do not function fully without plug-ins. For instance, some templates require the use of a plug-in called “Element 3D” by which you can create more complex 3D elements than you do only with After Effects. “Trapcode” is a series of another plug-in most frequently used. It enables you to create particles of diverse variety (e.g., snow, smoke, water).