Coverr - Beautiful, free videos for your homepage background.
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Coverr is a resource for FREE stock videos, no catch! No registration required. Coverrs are videos that are made to fit as a beautiful video background but you can use them for any need, including for commercial and noncommercial use.
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Hi everyone, Yoav here, one of the "founders" of Coverr. why the dashes?
Coverr was built as a joint initiative between two startups "Veed.Me" & "CodersClan".
Since we experienced the need of homepage background videos from both sides; Video & Code, we decided to build something that will give these, for free - to the community.
Basically, Coverr lets you download any video that you want (mp4+webm+ogvimage) AND it also gives you code snippets to help you implement them (html,css,javascript). It's copyright free and always will be.
We will upload 7 new videos of 12-15 seconds each every Monday. we shoot them especially for Coverr.
Please let us know what you like, what features you'd like us to add. it's very basic now, but it works :)
We hope you like it,
CodersClan & Veed.Me teams
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@yoavush This reminds me a little bit of Unsplash and similar sites that frequently upload free photos. Glad to see there is now an equivalent for videos. I'm looking forward to playing with it a bit more.
I really like that you already include the different formats + poster JPG. Sadly the example I downloaded (birds) looks rather pixelated. Do you generate them automatically?
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@muellermm hey! We love unsplash!
Actually, it's funny you mention the birds video, we just found out that our conversion got something wrong there, we will upload a new one shortly!
@drorco@yoavush, Love the idea. There are a lot of free stock photo websites, but not many high quality free stock video sites that provide a code snippet that I can easily use in my projects. In addition, seeing two startups join forces to create a new product of which the entire community can benefit is an awesome initiative, and I wish to see more joint projects like this.
Kudos guys!
@illaigescheit Thank you Illai for the very kind words :) We can't wait for our next initiative!
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@illaigescheit I second @drorco and thanking you so much for the kind words.
It really is an amazing experience to join forces with another startup, especially while trying to build something that will serve this great community of ours.
@illaigescheit you'll also enjoy http://fancyfootage.club for curated, web ready, looping videos. It's great to see these resources growing in popularity :)
@a_nater Looks great! I really liked the fitness video :)
I agree - as the usage of video in web design becomes more popular, more high quality resources are essential like Fancyfootage.club and Coverr.co. Thanks for sharing.
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Love free assets! Thanks for this site.
A few questions:
1. Shouldn't you include .OGV file type as a for Firefox?
2. Your CSS does not address mobile/tablet. Videos should be swapped out with .JPG or .GIF on mobile. Worth adding to the documentation?
@parkeragee Hey Parker,
Thank you very much for your feedback!
Hopefully in the following week we will be adding support for mobile devices and OGV files.
@3runjo Ah thanks! Don't know how i missed that one. Cheers!
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<<< Promo>>>
Hey fellow hunters!
As all coverrs are 12-15 single shots, We edited 2 cool, fun sequences(multiple shots) that you can download using the product hunt link
We hope you enjoy it.
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What an awesome back story! Love it.
Also love your product. Opens the door on a lot of "diy" templates I've wanted to try but didn't have video for. Low risk testing is something that always seems to trigger me into making a proper, real investment in a more customized/tailored version of whatever "it" is down the road. Can definitely see this happening here.
Few themes I'd love to see - since you asked! :)
- up close of someone's screen that was using photoshop or something like that
up close of an old type writer
- coworking space/looking out into open office
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@jadenyc thanks a bunch for the kind words!
so - just wrote down the Close-up ideas and will try to get them up, sounds like it can be relevant to many people in our space. might just make it a bit out of focus to keep it general.
As for co-working space, it will be up, too :)
This is really awesome. I'm not sure if you accept outside video sources, but I have a project on GitHub and you're welcome to use/add the videos:
http://callmeed.github.io/video-...
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@callmeed Hi there, glad you like it.
First of all, we are considering to let other people submit videos that we will curate and add to the Coverr collection so it might definitely become an option soon.
Secondly, I like your project, love the baseball video but the link to see all videos didn't really direct me to another page..
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