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Acquiring footage for a rip reel/sizzle reel.

Mark Hammett

2 years, 6 months ago - Mark Hammett

If I'm putting together a sizzle reel for a pitch, and I want to include footage from established, copyrighted films... where do I get the footage?
I mean, people obviously used to rip it from DVDs but none of my new computers have DVD drives on them.

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Stefanos Christofi

2 years, 6 months ago - Stefanos Christofi

If you do still have the DVDs then maybe get an external DVD drive

e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rioddas-External-Portable-Rewriter-Desktop/dp/B07JGWBLVH/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?c=ts&keywords=External+Optical+Drives&qid=1674058771&s=computers&sr=1-1-spons&ts_id=430546031&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1&smid=A3ULAL5L84LM1B

or if you can get the footage from youtube there are plenty of youtube downloader apps

or if its streaming I have used OBS to capture the streams but it was a bit of a pain.

so one of those, good luck

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Mark Hammett

2 years, 6 months ago - Mark Hammett

Thanks Stefanos.

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Teresa Moorhead

2 years, 6 months ago - Teresa Moorhead

I know a quick and free way to do it. I did a sizzle reel, all from videos on YouTube.

This is how I did it:
1) I downloaded an app to my laptop called ClipGrab.
2) In Youtube, once you find the film/footage you want copy the share link onto your clipboard
3) In ClipGrab paste in the YouTube link.
4) ClipGrap will convert it to an MP4 and then you can import it into your editing software.

HTH

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Mark Hammett

2 years, 6 months ago - Mark Hammett

Thanks Teresa.

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