On Monday 23rd of February, Envato Market Blog presents 14 days of learning resources and daily free files,
to help you add video to your web design like a pro.
They will help you master the art of video in web design with complimentary stock footage, plugins and free expert tutorials.
Like Envato Giving Away Premium they’ll be giving away a different Envato Market item each day on their Market Blog between 23th, February – 07th, March.
To keep this article always updates, we will listing all newest items first.
03.06.15 – Sunset Over Los Angeles from Day to Night
Todays free stockage footage is a spectacular timelapsed sunset over Downtown, Los Angeles that slowly transitions from day to night.
File Specs:
- Full HD 1920×1080;
- H.264 Encoding;
- 424mb.
03.05.15 – Mental – Multipurpose Portfolio
Powered by Bootstrap, Mental is a feature-rich, responsive and multi-purpose portfolio web template that would work perfectly well as the foundation for a creative agency or personal portfolio site. It does come with support for video backgrounds (Youtube, Vimeo or self-hosted videos).
03.04.15 – Coffee Written by Roasted Beans
In this free stock footage clip, the Word “COFFEE” is being formed, using stop-motion techniques, by roasted coffee beans.
File Specs:
- Full HD 1920×1080;
- Photo JPEG Encoding;
- 72.1mb.
03.03.15 – FotoHunter
FotoHunter is a Creative Photographer HTML Template.The template can be used for Photographer Portfolio, Creative Designer Portfolio and more. Template is designed to comply with these requirements and all the latest trends of web design.
03.02.15 – Magic Cloth
Many sites use static abstract images as full-width backgrounds on their websites, why not wow your visitors instead with the gentle movement of this abstract ‘magic cloth‘ free motion graphic.
File Specs:
- Full HD 1920×1080;
- Photo JPEG Encoding;
- 197mb.
03.01.15 – Venice River
There’s nothing more romantic than gently floating down one of the many rivers in Venice on a gondola! This free stock footage would be perfect as the video background of any travel (or dating) related website.
File Specs:
- Full HD 1920×1080;
- H.264 Encoding;
- 39mb.
02.28.15 – Queen – One Page Parallax
Powered by Bootstrap, Queen is a single-page HTML5 Template that is perfect for creative agencies and personal portfolios. This free template comes packaged with 10 page variants and does support video backgrounds.
02.27.15 – Silhouettes of People
This free stock footage of silhouetted shoppers at night time would make the perfect video background for any eCommerce site.
File Specs:
- Full HD 1920×1080;
- Apple ProRes 422 HQ Encoding;
- 956.5mb.
02.26.15 – Vibrant Ocean
With this free stock footage, you will be able to give your website vistors the unique experience of exploring the vibrant and colourful depths of a tropical ocean.
File Specs:
- Full HD 1920×1080;
- Apple ProRes 422 HQ Encoding;
- 956.5mb.
02.25.15 – Easy Video Background
Easy Video Background makes it extremely easy to add video across your website in no time! The script automatically picks the most optimal video format based on user’s browser. Furthermore, it has a built in image fallback for mobile devices where it is not possible to have video. When the user’s system does not support the HTML5 video tag, a Flash fallback will become active.
Features:
- “Plug and play” wordpress plugin
- Youtube and native video support
- Mobile image fallback
- HTML5 with Flash fallback or other way around by option
- Fixed positioning (follows page scrolling)
- Absolute positioning (inside a div)
- Maintains aspect ratio and centers video
- Control functions such as pause, play, mute toggle, and more
- Works in every major browser
The Easy Video Background plugin for WordPress makes it easy to add video backgrounds to your site in no time! It supports both Youtube and native video, and comes with built-in image fallback for non-supportive mobile devices. To learn more about this plugin, check out this tutorial.
02.24.15 – Busy Day in Shopping Mall
If you are planning to launch a new ecommerce venture in the near future, this free full HD stock footage of a hectic shopping day in a typical mall would make the perfect video background for your new, or redesigned, site.
Clip Details
- Format: Full HD 1920×1080
- FPS: 24
- Video Codec: Photo Jpeg
- Location: Frankfurt Germany
- Shooting Date: April 2014
- Source: Canon 5D Mark II
Available until 9am AEDT, February 25th 2015.
02.23.15 – Evenings – Responsive Coming Soon Page
As well as coming with support for both full-screen images and Youtube video backgrounds, Evenings comes packaged with two content pages, a library of jQuery animation effects, a jQuery countdown plugin, a contact/newsletter form and even allows you to display a real-time Twitter feed.
Features
- Full Screen Image Background
- Full Screen YouTube Video Background
- 2 Additional Content Pages
- 3 Columns
- jQuery Countdown
- Animated Content Changer with Smooth Transition Effect
- Real Time Live Twitter Feed [Twitter API v1.1 Compatible]
- Contact Form with Validation [Without Page Refresh]
- Newsletter Subscription Form with Validation [Without Page Refresh]
- Responsive Layout
- Social Media Profiles Support
- jQuery Animation Effects
- Styled Typography
- Valid HTML5
- Multi-Browser Support
Available until 9am AEDT, February 24th 2015.