Guide to the Best Free Motion Backgrounds

"A vast library of high end keyable elements, lower thirds, wipes, mattes, borders, and motion backgrounds. A great resource for motion graphic designers."

Another subscription based video background site. It has fairly large library of mostly 3D rendered backgrounds that come in both SD and HD formats. Great for those times when a typical motion background just doesn't cut it.

"Though this site is meant to mainly be a resource for Christian pastors, it also serves as a great place to get over 50 high quality motion backgrounds for a good price."

"A surprisingly simple and stylized site that makes browsing for both religious and non-religious motion backgrounds incredibly easy and with prices from 5-15 dollars, it can't be beat."

"Highly artistic motion backgrounds with both a religious and non-religious flair. Frequently updated, its video and motion background library can be accessed for just 99 dollars a year"

"One of the most popular stock footage and motion background websites. With thousands of the most professional motion backgrounds and software designed to make it easy to make custom motion backgrounds, it's no wonder why! Almost all of their products come in packaged deal ranging anywhere from $49.99 to $299.99."

An easily navigable site with high quality motion backgrounds and loops. With loops from free to $25 dollars, they should be affordable for most videographers!

"With only six free 720P clips, this is a very small site but worth checking out nonetheless."

Who can argue with free? Especially when free means 720P high resolution videos? Even though the library isn't huge it's still worth checking this site out when looking for motion background videos.

"A subscription based site with over 240 religious and non-religious motion backgrounds, great for placing text over all on a nice website for a good price!"

A fairly large library of motion backgrounds and video clips all within an easily previewed design.

"Even with a ton of motion graphic backgrounds, the best part about this site is probably the fact that you can get their entire library for just $50 a year. Considering how expensive it is to download single files at a time, deals like these make this one of the first stops for anyone looking for a motion background."

A professional stock video website that also deals in motion backgrounds. Many high definition video files in a great looking and easy to use website.

"20 looping motion backgrounds at 1080P and all free? Sounds like a dream, but at StockFootageForFree.com, it is reality. The first place to check out before you look at any other motion background website!"

"With a surprisingly large motion background library at great prices, this should be one of the first stops for anyone looking for both SD and HD backgrounds. Most DVDs come with 30 or more clips and run anywhere from 49 to 99 dollars."

A huge library of motion graphic elements and stock motion backgrounds at very good prices. You can purchase entire volumes for just 49 dollars.

"This site is the home of Digital Hotcakes, motion graphics for video. Covering popular categories such as home movie, nature, sports, wedding and worship, this site offers full volumes of 40-50 clips on DVDs for just $97 and as full volume downloads for just $87. Their most popular volumes are also available in HD."

"Almost 200 motion backgrounds with curiously, only the categories of abstract, flags, and money all in only SD. Nonetheless, a very affordable resource for stock motion backgrounds."

A small number of very stylized video backgrounds that work great with text.