Where real clips and photos come from

When your story names real people, companies, places, events or websites, the video can show them for real.

The sources

• Real photos: the lead picture of the subject on Wikipedia, and photos from Wikimedia Commons and Openverse. Only freely licensed photos are used.
• Real clips: short moments from public videos found through search on YouTube. The exact moment is chosen from frames taken every two seconds, so the cut lands on what is really on screen.
• Archived web pages: a website as it looked in a given year, from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

How items are chosen

A vision model looks at the actual thumbnails and frames and picks the ones that show the subject well. It may reject every candidate rather than show a poor one. Photos too small for a sharp frame are left out.

Turning it on or off

Real photos, clips and web pages are on by default when your video uses pictures. You can turn them off when you create the video, for example if you want only designed graphics, or a version without third-party material.

Credits

Every real item is credited on screen while it shows (for example the photographer and licence, the channel of a clip, or the Internet Archive and the date), and all credits are listed under the video.