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footage

footage

932 3.8
Recorded video used in news or films
  • noun
  • /ˈfʊtɪdʒ/
  • Literature
translation icon : metraje
  • I believe we have footage which we'll show right now.
  • video footage
  • film footage
  • news footage

And I also have hours of footage with Billy talking.

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Examples

  • Do we need any more footage like this?

  • So my mom caught some footage of how wild it was.

  • Now we have some footage here of the two of you together.

  • And I also have hours of footage with Billy talking.

  • Here, I want you to look at this security camera footage.

  • This is the very first footage of this creature in the wild.

  • So I am going to insert some footage now of the signing.

  • Here we're seeing some B roll footage of the LA freeways.

  • I captured that footage on a recent outing.

  • The documentary contains rare footage of wildlife in their natural habitat.

Synonyms

clip
vsfootage
526 1.9

A short piece of video or sound taken from a longer recording

is broader, referring to any recorded segment or material
videotape
vsfootage
  • Archaic
488 3.0

A tape that records or plays moving pictures

refers to recorded media regardless of the physical storage format
film clip
vsfootage
7 3.0

A short part of a movie that people use in news and talks

covers recorded material more broadly, not only brief movie excerpts
video recording
vsfootage
6 2.2

A film of moving images with sound that you can watch later

is the general term for recorded media used in broadcasts or films
movie film
vsfootage
  • Specialized
1 1.8

A long roll of material that records moving pictures in a movie camera

is a broader term for recorded visual material used in media
videography
vsfootage
  • Specialized
4.9

Recorded video of an event or subject

is more general, meaning any recorded visual material for media

How Finished

final cut
  • Specialized
9 4.2
post-production
  • Specialized
9 3.8
editing
126 2.7
rough cut
  • Specialized
5 4.8
footage
  • Literature
932 3.8

Surface Forms

footage singular
footages plural

Morphology

footage = foot (opaque) = foot + age

The word is historically built from 'foot' + '-age', but the modern meaning 'recorded film/video material' is a specialized extension from measured film length and is not predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Footage comes from early film days when movie film was measured in feet, the same 'foot' we use to measure length. So footage originally meant how many feet of film there were, which is why it now means recorded film or video.