How To Edit Stock Footage FAST & Make Passive Income 💲

Here's how to EASILY edit and export stock footage fast that you can upload to licensing sites and start selling and making passive income! This video will show you everything you need to edit stock video, including what resolutions and formats to use when editing, whether you should export in a flat log color grade, if you need audio, and tons of other tips!

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0:00 Download my FREE Stock Footage Jump Start Guide!
0:55 Edit & Export In 4K Or Higher If Possible
2:11 Do You Need To Color Grade Your Footage?
3:45 What About Audio?
4:02 The Best Frame Rates To Export With
4:40 Video Clip Length
5:33 BEWARE File Size Limits
6:18 Exact Export Settings You Should Use
7:11 HUGE Time Saving Shortcut For Exporting Clips
8:38 Download my FREE Stock Footage Jump Start Guide!

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[AnthonyGugliotta]

Great guide! Would love one on tagging and metadata!

I was wondering whether I should color grade my footage. I thought filmmakers would prefer log clips so they could color grade them to fit in their video. Then again I guess agencies are most likely to buy stock footage, and they probably want it ready to go. Thank you!

[RonaldBrown]

Is there way to export individual clips in Final Cut Pro? Great video Matt, thanks for sharing all this wonderful information.

[sharoona]

Thanks, Matt for always making super informative videos. I was wondering what kind of content we cannot upload. I once tried to upload a video on stock footage of a platform here in Japan and it wasn't accepted even though the video did not show the faces of people. Thanks for your help in advance.

[EduardoBerth]

Thanks for all this awesome info Matt!

[theyoungsphoto]

Such great advice! Just need to find time to go thru our drives and pull all of this footage haha!

[BAGAVUTDINOV]

Tell us about the problems when the memory card fails on Sony cameras sony rsv file recovery

[HiFocusedCinematography]

Is there an export individual clips option in premiere Pro? Thank you for all the info!

[NeroMC]

Do you recommend using movement on footage?

[Juanification]

Thanks Matt. I do have only 2700 dollars would you please help me to decide what camera is good for wedding with this budget thanks have a good day

[photopoojaproduction]

Hi, Can I color grade and do basic lighting setting in my raw footage using iMovie and Da Vinci Resolve (free version) for stock?

[ChrisLeverMusic]

I've noticed that when exporting 'Individual Clips' from DaVinci Resolve, it removes the frate rate option and exports the clips at their original frame rate. Is there a way around this? ie still be able to export individual clips, but at whatever frame rate you want, rather than the original of the clips. IN my case they are 60fps. Wanting 24fps, as suggested

[Allthingsambient]

Hi I've just subscribed. I'm trying to make some money out of filming stock video clips. I currently use a Dji osmo action and shoot in 4k at 60 fps. I'm upgrading my camera and conisidering the Sony a7m3 camera since its more cinematic than the osmo action. Do you think video clips taken with the sony a7m3 would sell for more?

[johannesimmonen]

Maybe next video. How to edit 8k raw footage from R5?

[YannVerbeke]

Hi Matt, I tried to apply on Artgrid and in the submission form I pasted 6 YouTube URLs of 10 seconds clips I prepared. I got a reply less than 2 minutes later saying I was not accepted. They said it should be in high bit rate and in 4K - which they are. In your PDF guide you advise to have hundreds of clips ready before applying, where they only ask for 4. When applying do you put a dropbox link to the high res file, or a youtube 4K link? Many thanks for you help and advice, Yann

[oldschoolgaming]

Im somewhat new to this. I export on a PC using Premiere Pro and then im usually exportting using the DSLR or RED camera 4K codec, Is Apple ProRes 422 HQ so much better than them or whats the difference? Im mostly using DJI Mavic Air 2 4k and DJI Pocket 4K footage.

[ytuser]

it so annoying everytime when i upload drone footage. it does not accept it and i dont know why!!! the footage is clear and smooth everything perfect

[frmm]

Should I get a 20, 000$ business loan so that I can afford all the camera gear and computer equipment for 4k processing, so I can start doing this? Or is this for people who naturally already just happen to have lots of money for all the material needed just to get started? (For example: it could take a poor person years just to save up for the camera alone...)

[OaklynMediaLLC]

I'm wondering how long it'll be until AI can just generate our stock footage.

[fynefilms]

Don't read off a teleprompter I can't focus on anything else hahah