What it does
Beachfront B-Roll offers free stock footage and animated backgrounds, including nature, traffic, time-lapse, technology and abstract clips. Posts pair previews and download links with notes about how the scene was recorded.
Browse a subject or technique category, then open the post through Read more for its file links. The Perseids meteor-shower post, for example, offers 1920 × 1080 footage in H.264, PhotoJPEG and WMV through Archive.org links labelled Right Click Save. Its recording notes explain the exposure and interval used for the time-lapse.
The clips may be incorporated into projects or kept for later work, but the posts prohibit offering them again as stock footage. The site also carries a Creative Commons Attribution notice. Credit the creator and keep the clip’s stated reuse condition with the download.
Strengths
- Posts identify recording techniques and available file formats.
- The meteor-shower clip has three HD format choices.
Watch out for
- Clips cannot be redistributed as stock footage.
Best for
- Editors seeking free background footage and time-lapse scenes
Sources
- Beachfront B-Roll (Oct 27, 2026)
- Free Stock Footage Clip of the Perseids Meteor Shower (Oct 27, 2026)