I Was A Teenage Nerd Productions Royalty-Free Stock Footage

All of our royalty-free stock footage is shot on the 3 CCD Canon XL1-S DV camera, in 25fps Movie Mode to achieve a beautiful film-like effect. Over 70% of the footage was taken using a tripod, adding to the stock's overall professional quality. Hand-held shots are also included to convey the dynamic energy of Australia - but even these are nice and steady unlike your typical "tourist" home-video.

The footage is perfect for a range of commercial or personal applications, including; corporate and travel videos, documentaries, establishing shots for independent film, educational videos, or just for the pure viewing pleasures offered by Australia.

Our best selling Mini-DV tape. 60 minutes of footage, including shots of:

The world's most famous harbour

Various day and night angles on Sydney's best known landmarks, the magnificent Sydney Harbour Bridge and the unique Sydney Opera House. Also plenty of shots of harbour life, including ferries, other vessels and people on the foreshore.

Bondi Beach

Over a hundred different shots of Australia's most famous beach: Beautiful scenic angles on the beach and ocean; A plethora of action shots taken of the beach, water and esplanade, including: beach volley-ball, surf lifeguard drills, surfers, swimmers, sunbathers, bikini girls, joggers, skateboarders and roller-bladers.

Sydney City life

Footage capturing the vibrancy of one of the world's most beautiful and exciting international cities. Day and night footage includes: busy Pitt Street and Martin Place in the heart of Sydney's business and shopping district; plenty of shots of street-life, vendors, flower stalls, street buskers, traffic, and shoppers. And of course various angles of the spectacular Sydney skyline!

The tape includes hundreds of shots which average between 5-15 seconds. Other stock video firms sell similar footage for $50-$200 per 5-15 second clip! Often licensing you for a single use only! The tape comes with a license that entitles you to use all of the footage on it royalty free in personal or commercial productions as many times as you like.

The special 40 minute 2 disc DVD ROM edition contains the very best of the Mini-DV edition along with 5 minutes of special, additional footage - including shots of tall ships on Sydney Harbour, Sydney markets, and other Sydney beaches!. A total of 249 different shots! All saved as separate .AVI files in full DV format! Each clip is clearly titled with a brief description of the shot, to make finding the shots you need, and importing them into your editing software, a simple procedure. You only need a DVD ROM drive - no more time consuming firewire!

PAL Mini DV
DVD-R
DVD+R
PAL VHS

We provide the footage in PAL format only. However don't let this stop you from transcoding the footage from PAL into NTSC yourself. The DVD option not only gives you each clip separated in full DV format, but also enables you to easily import the PAL .AVI file into your editing software for transcoding without the need for a PAL Mini-DV player!

This footage is supplied to you for editing into your own productions. The purchaser may use the footage royalty free within their commercial and private productions, but may not duplicate, edit or modify to offer the content for resale as royalty free or stock video. Background music or people identifiable are subject to standard rights procedures. All rights reserved and Copyright owned by I Was A Teenage Nerd Productions.