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You DO NOT need to join, signup or login to download certain free clips. However, some free clips do require signup but do not require a credit card or other payment type at checkout. The clips that make up the "First Four Free" on the homepage can be directly downloaded without needing to sign up, log in, or even use the cart at all. The many other free clips do require you to checkout via the cart but the price will be $00.00
No, never! Our royalty free licensing allows you to use your purchased or downloaded footage in all your projects for one low price when you checkout. All purchases are yours to use for your videos, no matter where they play or how many times they play. Truly royalty-free.
The licensing duration for the use of purchased stock media is an unlimited time. That's right, you can use any media you buy from MotionLayers -- forever!
Our products are often used in demanding and high-profile projects, so at MotionLayers, our client base requires professional quality and professional formats. Our clips all originate and are always delivered in QuickTime ProRes 4444 or 422HQ format with high color depth. This ensures you get only the highest quality footage from MotionLayers.
An alpha channel is extra information or data baked into a clip that gives the shot a transparent background.
The transparent background and subtle levels of transparency that an alpha channel provides, make layering, inserting, and compositing our footage as easy as drag and drop. You can easily add our footage to your existing projects or use it on its own.
No, we also offer shots with green screen backgrounds that allow you to easily create your own transparency with a click of a button. While most of our footage has alpha channels, we do offer some shots that are simply isolated on black.
Most of our footage is 4K resolution. However, we do offer some shots at Full-HD resolution.