Keywords
Nouns, names, adjectives, actions, concepts and even file formats can be searched for in the Search box. Keep it simple, use full words not abbreviations, and do not use punctuations like periods or apostrophes or Boolean tools like quotes or ands. Just words separated by spaces. Unless you are searching for shots that contain multiples of one thing, use the singular tense. For example, a search for houses will only result in those shots that have more than one house in them. We try to keep our verbs active, using "ing" most of the time. For example, birds flying. Advanced Search may be helpful in targeting your results. Or, after your results have displayed, use Filter Results on the top left of the page to refine your results.

Previewing clips
After your search results display, you can roll over any thumbnail frame to see a small flash preview movie or click on the thumbnail frame to launch a larger pop-up window with a downloadable QuickTime preview movie. If this larger window does not launch, please be sure your browser is enabled to allow pop-up windows. If the pop-up still does not display, check behind your browser page to see if it might be hiding. The larger preview clips are QuickTime movs in the H.264 codec. The majority of our preview clips are in their native frame rates of 30fps or 24fps. However, we have reduced the frame rate of some of our more elaborate preview movies to 15fps so that these larger files will play and download more efficiently. Most operating and editing systems can handle the H.264 codec with the known exception of Avid running on OS9. H.264 is included with QuickTime 7, which is recommended for use with this site. Most footagehead clips do not have sound. If sound is available it will be included in the preview movie and the master file.

Advanced Search and Filter Your Results
The options in Advanced Search and Filter Your Results are just some of the common ways to focus your search. Use Advanced Search only when you are doing an initial search. Use Filter Your Results after your results have displayed. Selecting any of the qualifiers in these boxes will limit the results that come back. Selecting more than one will produce only results that contain ALL of the items selected. For example, selecting aerial and lock-off will produce no results as the camera is never stationary when flying. These qualifiers and any others can also be added to your keyword search string.

Shot length
Most footagehead clips are approximately 10 seconds in length.  If a clip justifies a longer duration, we will have created a sequence of clips for it that will run together when reassembled.  For these sequences, add the keyword sequence to your search or look for a, b, c, etc. extensions on the clip ID.

All of footagehead's clips are 16x9 QuickTime movies, produced and available in varying formats and codecs. If format or codec is important, you will want to consider both the CAMERA FORMAT and the MASTER FORMAT (see below) when selecting your clips for purchase.

Camera formats
The majority of footagehead's clips were shot on high definition low bit rate cameras using interframe compression such as the Panasonic P2, the XDCAM HD (EX1), and various HDV cameras. Some clips were shot with less compression such as on Panasonic's Varicam and some were down-converted from HDCAM to DVCPRO HD. A select group of historical shots were up-converted from standard definition to HDV. All of footagehead's clips have an aspect ratio of 16 x 9 (widescreen).

The camera format is indicated in the details of the clip where it lists the following:

Master Formats
When the camera format is a widely used one such as DCVPRO HD or HDV we have not changed or converted it so as to maintain the integrity of the shot.  However, for less common codecs such as Apple ProRes422, we produced master files for download in more universal codecs such as PHOTO JPEG.  Please Test Download to see if you have compatible codecs installed in your NLE.  

The master format is indicated in the details of the clip where it lists the following:

File sizes
The size of the master file for download will vary per clip depending on its length, codec, dimensions and bit rate. Master file sizes are indicated for each clip in its master file specs.  Three average sized sample clips in three formats are posted for you to Test Download speed.

Technical support    email technicalsupport@footagehead.com

Clip Bin
Registration is required to save shots to a Clip Bin. When you find a shot that interests you and you click on the Add to Bin icon (+), if you are already registered and logged in, the clip will either go into a Clip Bin that you have set up and defaulted, you will be asked to select an existing Clip Bin, or you will be prompted to create a new Clip Bin. You can also set up new Clip Bins in Your Bins prior to searching. You may have as many Clip Bins as you'd like to keep your projects organized but if you have multiple active bins, we recommend that you not default any of them as your primary destination so that you may choose where they go each time. If you are not already logged in or registered, you will be prompted to do so before you can add clips to bins.

Clip Cart
When you are ready to purchase any of the shots in any of your bins simply select that bin from the pull-down menu at the top of the Clip Bin column, and click the right pointing arrows (>>) next to the shot you want to purchase to add it to your Clip Cart. If you are done with that Bin and would like to purchase shots from another, pull-down on the menu again and open another Bin. You have one Clip Cart into which can be added clips from any of your Clip Bins. Clips moved to your Cart will still remain in your Bin. If you want to remove a clip from your Cart, click on the left pointing arrows (<<) next to that clip in your Cart. When your Clip Cart is ready, select Proceed to Checkout at the bottom.

Price
$200 each.  There are no additional fees. 
We do not charge a download fee and we do not charge tax as you are purchasing a license to use the clip, not the clip itself.

Rights
footagehead's $200 per clip fee allows you to use the clip in any or all of your projects or the company/client's projects on behalf of which you are purchasing the clip, no matter how big or small, no matter where or when.   However, you cannot resell the clip or transfer the permission to use the clip to any other entity outside the scope of yourself or the company/client on whose behalf you are purchasing the right to use the clip.  We represent the cinematography copyright to all of the clips we offer.  What we do not represent, as explained in the User Agreement, are unreleased people, trademarks, copyrighted art or architecture, and anything else along those lines that is portrayed in the clips.  For all the details and possible additional limitations pertaining to the images contained within the clips that may be outside of the cinematography copyright, please read the User Agreement.

Payment Methods
We accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express.  Payments must be made upon checkout.  We currently do not accept Pay Pal.

Refunds/Returns
We do not offer kill fees, refunds or exchanges.  All sales are final.

Checkout Page
The clips that were in your Clip Cart will display at the top.  If you wish to remove any clips from the Checkout Page at this stage please do as all transactions are final. Clips removed will not go back into your Clip Cart but they will still be in your Clip Bin.  All fields that are asterisked (*) are required to process your purchase.  If you entered payment information in Your Account, you may select the card to use and the billing info fields will be populated.  You can also change the credit card information at this point or add another card and save it for next time.  You will be required to read the User Agreement  before agreeing to the terms and please Test Download if you haven't already for speed and codec compatibility.  We do not offer kill fees, refunds or exchanges.  All sales are final.

After clicking Purchase, a page will launch where the clips you have purchased will appear with their download links.  You may start your download immediately. If you prefer to download later or from another computer, the links will be stored in the Account History section at the bottom of Your Account page.  You will be allowed 7 days from purchase to download each clip.  Please make a note of the expiration date as once it has passed the clips will no longer be available. 

Troubleshooting Downloads
If your first download attempt is unsuccessful, we recommend you try again in a higher speed environment.  Various factors impact download speed such as file size, internet connection speed, internet traffic, and your computer's processor speed.  footagehead clips vary in size from approximately 30MB to 200MB.  If after downloading a clip the file's icon is a white page, not a QuickTime icon, you do not have the necessary codec.  Please Test Download for speed and codec compatibility before purchasing.  All sales are final.

footagehead is the newest tool for web media producers.  A sleek online royalty free footage store where 16x9 stock clips can be easily searched, viewed and purchased.  Launching with over 10,000 downloadable clips, footagehead is looking for shooters that meet footagehead's high standards for production quality and content presentation.  Founder and President Paula Lumbard brings over 20 years of industry experience to this, her third and latest footage enterprise.  Paula has built a reputation for her fair and just business practices.  Vice President and IT specialist Carol Martin has been in the footage industry for over a decade and headed up the creation of this new footage store.

How to become a footagehead supplier

   footagehead accepts footage shot in the following camera formats and file codecs:

Accepted Camera Formats
HDV
P2
DVCPRO HD
XDCAM HD
HDCAM down-converted

Accepted Master File Codecs
HDV
DVCPRO HD
PHOTO JPEG
XDCAM HD

   If your footage meets these specs, download and complete the footagehead Submission Form.

   Send the completed form and several footage samples on DVD to:

Submissions
footagehead
1733 Abbot Kinney Blvd Suite C
Venice, CA 90291 USA
(footagehead does not return unsolicited DVDs or drives.)

   Once your submission is received, a member of the footagehead team will contact you, provide you with a sample representation agreement,
   explain the royalty payments, discuss your collection and future shooting plans and answer any questions you may have.  If your footage is
   accepted you will then be supplied with a spec sheet for final clip submissions.