Videos available on mediaclip are all hand-picked by our editorial and documentalist team from the INA and partner audiovisual archives including historical collections of film and cinema press between 1939 and 1969, all audiovisual programmes broadcast on French public television between 1949 to present day.

A media clip refers to an audiovisual sequence which you have selected on the website, appearing on the purchase order and paid for in line with our general terms and conditions of sale. The full catalogue of clips which we make available at mediaclip is expanded on a daily basis.

The calendar is a free editorial guide tool which we have developed for your daily use. It allows you to get ahead through a selection of videos which resonate with topical events and subjects in the news.

A media file is a collection comprising a maximum of 20 media clips, specially created by our editorial team and concerning a news subject or economic, political, sporting or cultural event.

The website contains a selection of segmented and editorial audiovisual sequences from the INA audiovisual archives available for professional users. If you can’t find the media clip you need, you can make a search request using the form available under the Contact Us section.

All of our media clips are supplied with rights of use for the whole world and the following uses (licences): Digital Publication: use for editorial purposes for 5 years, to inform the general public or illustrate the news. Digital Corporate / Brand Content: use for presentation and promotion of the image, brand, history, commercial ethos for 1 year. Cultural Licence: use for cultural purposes and restricted to members of the cultural network. Digital and Event broadcasts, valid for 5 years.

All of the media clips available on the website have been selected for immediate use and for all of the operating rights available on the website. Our media clips come with a turnkey licence which guarantees their use as part of your project subject to respecting our General Terms and Conditions of Sale.

You can use the media clips after purchasing the corresponding rights of use for the project you indicated at the time of placing an order. The intended use of the media clips should respect the general terms and conditions of sale which you accepted.

The client project refers to the project you indicated in your purchase order: content illustrated by the media clip(s) (such as an article, blog, Facebook page) or a welcome publication integrating one or more clips (such as a documentary, audiovisual or multimedia module). You should also indicate the recipient of your project: a brand if you produce content on behalf of an advertiser (a beneficiary) or yourself if you are the editor or distributor of videos you use. You may use the Media Clip as part of a single Project for a single Right of Use.

Each order leads to the issue of a purchase order which provides a breakdown of your purchases, notably the media clips purchased and their terms of use. Each purchase order can be downloaded in PDF format. Your history of purchase orders is available from your user account under the section entitled My Orders.

There are two categories of prices for media clips: Classic and Sport. These vary depending on the rights of use you want to purchase: Digital publication, Digital Corporate/Brand, Cultural Licence. A default price - corresponding to Digital Publication - is displayed next to each Media Clip.

Our prices include the selection of media clips by our editorial team, the assignment of a turnkey licence, technical supply, sound and image restoration which may be required for their creation and the payment of fees to rights holders having been involved, directly or indirectly, in the production and creation of audiovisual programmes.

You can make payment for orders of clips by bank card or as part of a package if you have subscribed to one of our package deals (Start, Classic, Premium or Bespoke). When making payment as part of a package, the total amount of your order exclusive of VAT for media clips will be automatically deducted from the remaining balance of your package. No bank details are entered or stored after transactions.

Payments for Start, Classic and Premium packages can only be made by card.

VAT may be applicable over payments, media clips or packages made by card depending on the legislation applicable to you. VAT rules are determined on the basis of information which you indicated at the time of placing an order, the place of residence of the company to be invoiced and, depending on your situation, for French and European clients, your company incorporation number and/or Intracommunity VAT number. The invoice issued for each order will indicate the VAT rate applied.

All of your invoices are available in PDF format from your user account under My Invoices.

A Package refers to a predefined fixed-rate total when ordering and purchasing Media Clips available on the Website. A bonus will be added to this total corresponding to a percentage of the total Package price. This bonus is granted at no cost by the INA when purchasing a Package. Packages make it easier to purchase Media Clips since the total amount exclusive of VAT for each Media Clip ordered will be automatically deducted from your remaining balance, without needing to provide any other payment information.

All Packages give you access to all of our Media Clips, all Rights of Use available on the website and all of our services. The difference between the various Packages is their total amount and the bonus amounts. The higher the value of your Package, the more you save when purchasing Media Clips.

The remaining balance of your Package includes the total amount exclusive of VAT of the Start, Classic, Premium or Bespoke Package you subscribed, including the bonus we offered. You can consult and track the remaining balance of your Package in your Account under “My Package” and when placing an order under “My basket”.

You can renew your Package by subscribing a similar Package or a different Package. You must renew a Package before the expiry date of the last Package subscribed, namely within one year following payment of your last subscription. If you do this, the remaining balance of your Packages will be accumulated.

You have a period of one year in which to use your Package. Once this expires, you will not be entitled to any reimbursement, whatever the remaining balance. For more details on how we handle Packages, you can contact our sales teams by completing and submitting the contact form at the bottom of our website pages.

The website is intended for users who are acting in a professional capacity on their own behalf or that of a Beneficiary and developing a project which includes our Media Clips: online press publishers, journalists, communication agencies, producers, broadcasters, distributors, researchers, creators, authors, directors, etc.

It is possible to view the website whether or not you are logged in. By registering with the website, you will be guaranteed use of all of the website functions, as well as being able to consult and download media clips. By signing up you can also save videos in your favourites, access your client account and the various sections of your account. Also, by signing up you can indicate your editorial preferences to receive thematic newsletters.

You can create an account by completing the registration form. Your account will be created automatically once all mandatory fields have been completed and confirmed.

You simply need to log in to your account and change the personal details which you entered when signing up.

You can find or change your password under My Account. If you have forgotten your password, you can use the forgotten password function to ask for a password reset.

You can cancel your subscription from your user account. You will need to confirm your ubsubscription request. Once this confirmation has been made, all of your account details will then be deactivated including your favourites, basket, order history, invoice history and any remaining balance for your package.

No particular computer configuration is necessary to use the website. Of course, the faster your internet connection, the shorter the download time will be regardless of the web browser used.

There are two online viewing formats available: 1. The simple viewing format accessible from the website video player. This viewing format includes an MPEG4 format including data in H264 video format and AAC audio format. The simple viewing format has a video playback speed of around 1000 kb/s and audio speed of around 128 kb/s. 2. The demo download format which can be downloadable from each product form. The demo-video uses the same format as the classic format and includes a low-definition watermark and ID notice to help identify the media clip more easily. The video and audio playback speeds are identical as for the classic format: 1000 kb/s for videos and 128kb/s for audio.

The delivery format is MPEG4 format including data in H264 video format and AAC audio format. The delivery file is a progressive 10-14 mb/s format and has a playback speed of around 8000 kb/s and audio speed of around 256 kb/s.

You can download media clips purchased from the download link accessible within your user account under My Orders. This link is also included in the order confirmation email we send after each payment.

The INA catalogue contains more than 12 million hours of videos, with daily updates. It is therefore not possible to manually translate the whole catalogue. Therefore we have set up an automatic translation system for the Clip description.