Archive of the Stock Footage Category

Artbeats didn’t just bring three new collections to NAB–a gorgeous ultra slo-mo reel, new air-to-air (shot with Phantom) and energy aerials, and an Environmental Impact series.

The company also reinforced their intention to be a creative and technical resource for those using stock footage with an on-booth demo theater running continuous series of tutorials on topics including Steve Holmes on compositing fire effects in AE, DVD menus, lower third design, and using ProRes 422.

For those who aren’t at the show check out Artbeats free downloadable tutorials at artbeats.com.

Blastwave FX, developer of next-generation HD sound effects libraries, announced the release of its flagship library, SONOPEDIA, the encyclopedia of HD sound effects. With 20,000 royalty-free HD sound effects ranging from Alligators to Zippers, SONOPEDIA is the first professional all-purpose HD sound effects library available to HD media producers. Read on at The Briefing Room

More 2008 NAB Show news from The Briefing Room

Artbeats announced the immediate availability of a wide range of exclusive royalty-free collections at the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB). Shown for the first time at NAB, these collections are the latest additions to Artbeats’ very popular Ultra footage line, which features 1000fps (frames per second) slow-motion footage shot with the Phantom HD camera. Artbeats is one of the few stock footage houses to use the Phantom HD, and the camera’s outstanding resolution can be seen in the following new Ultra collections. Read on at The Briefing Room

More 2008 NAB Show news from The Briefing Room

Phil Bates, President & CEO of Artbeats, is here at NAB, just back from a four-day Lear Jet aerial shoot that took him from LA to Colorado to Texas to Oregon. They were on a big game hunt for clouds, preferably the white puffy ones..cumulus nimbus?? Checking satelites for leads, getting rumors on the ground they pursued their prey with F900Rs one in the nose one in the belly. For scale they traveled with a sleek F-5 fighter jet and a Gulfstream G4 exectuvie which appears in the day one footage. “It’s fun to talk about but not fun to pay for,” Bates observes of the price of Gulfstream admission–$12K for two hours. “We feel that the production value of that footage sets Artbeats apart,” Bates says. The company did a similar cloud fly through 7 years ago, and the products did great. But they weren’t HD. Now they are, which converges with what Artbeats says is a recent significant spike in the demand for HD.

Footage will be available in the fall.

Also note: Artbeat show special is 20% off any collection; plus buy 3 collections get one free.