Industries that keep the world moving forward
From automated systems and factory robots to industrial plants and solar farms, industrial videos showcase workers and engineers creating revolutionary advancements and technological achievements. Shutterstock has the best in industry stock video clips for your next project. Find footage of conveyor belts, shipping and logistics, factories and plants, and the latest technological advancements. Discover the industries that keep the world moving.
About industrial videos and stock footage
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Questions about industrial videos
Industrial footage video clips showcase advancements in industrial technology. This covers every part of product design and delivery, from engineers designing features to the manufacturing of industrial tools. The footage is often associated with clips of solar farms, trucking and shipping containers, workers in hard hats, and massive warehouses. Industrial footage also has the latest in technology, like robotic arms in factories, drone surveying or delivery, construction, and the use of smart technologies and apps.
Royalty-free industrial videos are stock footage clips that you can use in your videos, commercials, or television presentations without having to pay royalties for each use. With the purchase of Shutterstock’s royalty-free license, you can download royalty-free industrial videos of factory assembly lines, worker safety inspections, and engineering meetings to use right away in your projects. Shutterstock compensates contributors fairly, so you don’t have to worry about paying them. You can use these royalty-free industrial footage clips multiple times after paying a single fee.
The best contributors have brought their amazing industrial footage to Shutterstock, where you can discover and license these stock videos for any project. Just type what you are looking for in the search bar to begin your discovery phase. Looking for a specific clip? Search by clip ID numbers or use any combination of keywords to find exactly what you are looking for. Open the advanced search filters to deep dive into results by sorting by resolution, frame rate, length, and more.
The most engaging industrial footage usually limits the motion of the camera while focusing attention on the subject being captured. This could be a machine pouring molten steel or even a colorful array of shipping containers. Visually captivating industrial footage can also show massive scale, with humans walking next to or working on gigantic systems, or a bird's eye view of an industrial plant, wind turbines from high in the sky, or massive shipping vessels sailing the oceans.
There are several popular industrial video categories. One of the most sought after are industrial buildings and facilities. This includes industrial parks, factories, manufacturing assembly lines, warehouses, steelworks, bulk distribution, data centers, and Flex buildings. Another popular category is industrial workers, which features industrial engineers, construction workers, mechanics, welders, mold makers, factory workers, and more. A growing popular category is technology and automation, this includes robotic systems, specialty devices, electric and smart vehicles, and agricultural systems.
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How to make an industrial video
Industrial videos are a special type of production. Usually not created for mass appeal, these videos focus on specific job related tasks, safety tours, or case studies.
If you are tasked with filming on location, the first step is proper safety, making sure the video crew stays in a safe area, follows protocol, and makes sure their equipment doesn’t interfere with any industrial systems.
If you can’t film on location, you can certainly look to stock footage to fill in the gaps when editing. Find a good employee to interview or a subject matter expert that can talk about the industrial systems being shown. If not available, consider a voice over actor with a concise script. Then you are ready to showcase everything the industrial client has to offer.