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Shutterstock’s library offers thousands of dynamic video wallpapers to engage your audience and help your website stand out from the crowd. Our many talented contributors include professional videographers, filmmakers, and graphic artists who have used state-of-the-art equipment to create a wide variety of video wallpapers for your use. Scroll down to take a look at trending wallpaper video clips and popular wallpaper searches.

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High-quality video wallpapers

In our fast-moving modern age, video wallpapers are an excellent way to wordlessly inform potential customers and clients that you are keeping up with the times. From esthetic wallpapers perfect for artistic websites, to technology wallpapers ideal for projects centered around the world of tomorrow, Shutterstock’s library is sure to have the video wallpaper to meet your needs. Use our powerful search engine to explore the many options available to you. With advanced filters such as maximum resolution, FPS, and duration, you will find your ideal wallpaper in moments.
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Questions about video wallpapers


What is a video wallpaper?

In contrast with familiar static image wallpaper, video wallpapers are moving wallpapers that you can set as your desktop or laptop background, incorporate into your website, share on your social media, and more. Video wallpapers can help create a rich, interactive experience for visitors to your site. You can use these wallpapers to affect the mood and atmosphere of your site, inform visitors about who you are and what your brand stands for, or help tell a story. Some video wallpapers work well as large background videos, such as those that are not overly cluttered or too busy, as those are the ones that won’t distract your viewers. Intricate, highly detailed video wallpapers may be better off as a smaller video incorporated into your homepage for visitors to view before scrolling on to learn more.


What are stock video wallpapers?

Stock video wallpapers have been created by professionals and shared with stock video libraries, such as Shutterstock, so that users can later use them in their own projects as they see fit. In this way, it saves users from needing to go out and spend their own time and money to capture video clips. Within the Shutterstock library, there are stock video wallpapers in a wide variety of categories. In the Art category, there are all sorts of video wallpapers, from abstract swirls of color to neon geometric patterns. Nature lovers can delight in the video wallpapers of sunlight streaming through a forest or mountains soared over from such a height that viewers get a bird’s eye view of the land below. Foodies can feast their eyes on the endless buffet of options found in the Food and Drink category. Video wallpapers of slowly scooped ice cream or strawberries being dipped in chocolate fountains are sure to make any viewer’s mouth water. Check out all these stock video wallpapers and more by exploring the library.


What are popular video wallpapers?

Popular video wallpapers include: Animated wallpaper: Animated wallpapers vary widely in style and texture. 3D renders of blooming flowers, paint brushstrokes in action, and blue particles turning into waves are just a few of many striking video wallpapers available in our library. Technology wallpaper: Go the sci-fi look with a technology wallpaper. Within our library, you can expect to see geometric constellations of interconnected lines, AI clips of human faces being generated by pixels before your eyes, and vibrant cityscapes with graphic WiFi symbols floating above skyscrapers, among many others. Wallpapers of varying resolutions: While full HD was the standard for a time, at 1920x1080, 4K has become the latest in ultra-high-resolution video at four times HD resolution. Use the “Maximum resolution” filter on the Shutterstock search engine to select among 4K wallpaper, HD wallpaper, and SD wallpaper.


How do I find high-quality video wallpapers?

Shutterstock’s search engine makes it easy to find exactly the sort of video wallpaper you have in mind. Go to the top of any Shutterstock page and click “Footage.” From there, enter specific keywords such as “coding wallpaper” or “anime wallpaper” into the search bar. Click the magnifying glass icon at the right to view your video wallpaper results. To further narrow your search, use Shutterstock’s advanced filter options, which can be found on the left side of the search page. Go to “Sort by” to select how you would like to view your results (Popular, Fresh content, Best match, or Random). You can also select your chosen resolution from among the “Maximum resolution” filter options, your ideal frames per second from the “FPS” filter, and optimal duration from the “Duration” slider. Play around with filters until you find the perfect video wallpaper for your next project.


How are video wallpapers made?

Video wallpapers are made up of short video clips that are looped to provide viewers with a wallpaper in steady, constant motion. These clips may have been filmed or digitally created in After Effects or other VFX or animation software. If the video wallpaper consists of a digital object, such as a slow-spinning floating basketball, then it was most likely rendered in 3D in a specialized software such as Blender. Some smartphones come with video wallpapers, but you can also download existing video wallpapers from stock libraries like Shutterstock and use those as your personalized video wallpaper.

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Video wallpaper on mobile devices

  • Want to see a cool wallpaper each time you open your phone? Setting up a video wallpaper on your mobile device is a creative way to have your own interests or artistic sensibilities reflected back at you.

  • If you love vibrant color, check out some of our abstract iridescent video wallpapers or neon geometric designs. If you are particularly passionate about animals, you can set up your phone with a video wallpaper of that creature. A clip of a dozing dog or leaping dolphin might be just the thing to make you smile.

  • If you are looking for something soothing, try a slow-motion clip of ocean waves gently washing up onto the shore or pink sunset clouds drifting across the sky. Alternatively, if you want something a bit more high-energy, a video wallpaper of people dancing or jumping for joy might be more your speed.

Video wallpaper on mobile devices
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