Sample Archives

Here's a selection of websites where you can download some nice footage to get you started, or use for sampling purposes. Most of this footage needs to be converted before you can use it properly in Resolume!

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57 VJ Clips by Mo Selle V.2

List of free clips to promote the awareness, enjoyment and art of Vjing. Many thanks to Analog Recycling and VJ Zoo for the encouragement and setting up the right examples.

Architects of Tomorrow VJ Clips

Really large and really strange collection of clips. It's not all good but there is so much you'll probably find a few that suit your taste.

Analog Recycling VJ loops II

Another loop giveaway from Analog Recycling. Check out the new pack available for download at Archive.Org. Download 79 new loops for your vj sets. Perfect for use with Resolume.

Pixelpunx VJ Set

A VJ set from the pixelpunx live-video collective. Made for the switzerland CC-launch event in Zurich May 2007.

Livin' In The City VJ Clips by Mo Selle

Great variation of clips with a nice textured analog look.

Graffiti Loops by Adam Jay

These loops are made from still images of graffiti, zoomed in and randomly scanned around the image to create fast moving graphics.

68 Vintage Fairlight VJ Loops by VJzoo

These are NOT for everybody's taste - they are messy, grungy and grainy loops harvested from "Vintage AV Plug n Play" sessions using equipment from the 1980's and 1990's such as Fairlight Computer Video Instruments (CVIs), the Panasonic WJ-AVE7 and feedback from an analogue Panasonic video camera on a Commodore monitor. The Fairlight CVI was developed in Australia in 1984 and was used by early live-AV artists such as Severed Heads.

22 VJ Clips by The Dave

This is a random selection from my home made content, its all pretty dark and dirty, use to your little hearts content

Analog Recycling: 79 free loops

It does not get much better then this for a freebee! 79 high quality loops from the dutch masters.

Trafic Timelapse

Six very high quality, professional traffic timelapse loops made by Garrett Wasny. Quality comes with a price but this is affordable for everyone at only $4.99. Looking forward to his next volumes.

Cephalopods underwater footage

Nice underwater footage of all living cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus). Thanks Mazoola!

Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre

The Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre has a lot of broadcast resolution videos and animation online. Videos range from videos actually made by the hubble but also 'artist imspressions' of space and the hubble telescope.

Entmology

Large collection of various insect videos filmed by the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University. Thanks for your suggestion Mitch!

Teczno Free Video

Some great quicktime videos created by experimenting with OpenGL rendering methods with Max/MSP and Jitter. All available under the Creative Commons License.

TriggerMotion Fileshare

Nice collection of flash animations. Including some dynamic text ones specifically made for use in resolume. While you are on this website checkout the moving and static pictus. Good Stuff!

Endoscopic Videoclips

Big collection of endoscopic videoclips. Ever heard of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases? Or Gastrointestinal Malignancies? Check it out and see what it looks like from the inside. Thanx for this link Juba! (you sick bastard ;-)

Hubble's Panoramic View of the Universe

Mostly camera pans over images taken with the Hubble telescope. Als one computer simulation of two colliding galaxies. Very nice if you are into this kind of stuff.

WPA Film Library: The 20th Century

Download quicktime preview clips of the WPA Film Library. The movies are a bit low rez but they have a big collection of rare and strange footage covering the whole 20th century. They even have footage of a bed race and a bicycle that carries 5 people! ;-)
Thanx to: Daniel Schmidt and Paul Norris.

Car Crash Test Videos

See how your car would fare in a crash — view crash test videos for recent vehicle types and models. Crash tests are conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
Thanx to:Paul Norris

MotorDrive Graphics Flash Loops

An archive of 175 flash loops made by Japanese VJ MotorDrive. You can download the .fla files so that you can even change the files if you like. Note that these animations are very ... eeehh ... Japanese ;-) Danke shön herr wurstmann.

Fisheye View Time-Lapse Movies

Great relaxing time-lapse footage of underwater creatures. This is high-quality stuff! Thanks to VJ Bumblebee.

Chemical Crystals

This very big cinemicrographic collection shows time-lapse movies of various chemical compounds as they change physical states. Very colorful! Very trippy! Hallucination guaranteed! Here is one more. Thanx to Ruben Kramers.

NASA Crash Tests

Sick footage of controlled crash impact demonstrations with planes. Good stuff!

Historical Nuclear Weapons Test Films

Very very very nice archive of historical nuclear weapons testing. For all you Coldcut lovers out there. You can download mpg samples of tapes that can be ordered for as low as $10. Who said superb footage has to be expensive?

Scientific Movie Library - Medical

Quite a big archive with medical footage, 2D and 3D animations. Most of them available in avi, mpg and mov. Some of them even loop!

UFO Video Footage Archive

Very big archive of UFO footage. Lots of shaky amateur footage but also a lot of footage shot by NASA on their space missions!

Brickfilms Lego Movies

Just for laughs, a big archive of movies animated with lego ;-) The best Lego animation is ONE: A Space Odyssey. This was created for a British film contest and is really funny and well done!

Edison Motion Pictures

Footage taken from 1891 to 1922 with Edison's Kinetograph. This collection features 341 Edison films. The earliest example is a camera test made in 1891, followed by other tests and a wide variety of new items and dramas up until the year 1918. Nice historic black & white footage. The QuickTime versions of these clips are a bit too low-res, though the MPG versions are all 320x240

NASA Human Space Flight

Very big NASA video and image galley. Footage from Shuttle missions, the International Space Station, Skylab, etc. Lots of preflight animations, launches, landings, and day-to-day video archives. The search is very powerful. Search for “solid” for some spectacular stuff.

The Apollo Program

This site presents imagery and information from manned Apollo missions. This information and footage comes from NASA and the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies RPIF collection. Nice historic space footage, though a bit low-res. More superb high-resolution Apollo footage here.

NASA Video Gallery

This page is meant to be an overarching guide to digital video and animation related to NASA and space exploration.

NATO video

Archive of NATO footage. Attacks on tanks and various other targets. Some filmed with a camera inside the bomb itself.

Prelinger Archives

This collection contains movies that the Prelinger Archives has digitized (with about 890 of them now online) and donated to the Internet Archive. The films mainly focus on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America during the 20th century. This archive is pure gold! So many really nice (mostly black & white) movies!