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FilmHERO – Affordable 4K+ Footage Licensing Website

FilmHERO is a new online platform with royalty-free premium footage for licensing. The subscription service offers unlimited access to a curated catalog of over 12,000 4K+ clips for $29 US per month (with 6-month subscription period). Now for a limited time even for $25 US per month. Example of stock footage. Source: FilmHERO The stock footage licensing business is starting to be quite dense. There are already many online marketplaces offering stock footage for licensing and many of them have chosen the subscription-based model, where users are getting access to the whole catalog for a certain flat fee. This was the case with recently launched Artgrid and it is also the case with FilmHERO. The FilmHERO platform was launched in April 2019 by cinematographers David Baumber and Helen Fields. The platform describes itself as a global content marketplace and it offers a curated catalog of over 12,000 “cinema-quality” video clips in 4K or higher resolution. I am not sure what exactly they mean by cinema-quality, but the creators claim all the clips have been shot on RED Digital Cinema cameras. The clips are available at ProRes, DNxHD and H264 formats both graded and ungraded (Log gamma curves). The footage is completely royalty-free and licensed for all uses. The clips are sorted in packs – every pack features different angles of the same subject (or the same topic) and has different amounts of clips (usually between 5 and 20 clips). The platform creators are promising their catalog will be constantly growing...

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Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 23 April, 2019

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