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Aerial View Of Calm Grey Ocean Surface · 5s · clip 1 of 9

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Ocean
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About this clip

This aerial footage captures a vast expanse of calm, grey-blue ocean water. The camera looks down at a steep angle, revealing gentle ripples and subtle wave patterns moving across the surface. The scene is devoid of land, boats, or wildlife, offering a clean, minimalist texture. This clip serves as an ideal background for text overlays, transitions, or establishing shots in nature and travel productions.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for travel edits, marine documentaries, agency mood reels, brand films, and social cuts that need a clean aerial ocean texture without land, boats, wildlife, or people.
Edit role
Works as a short opener, transition, cutaway, title background, or quiet texture beat where an editor needs grey-blue water movement with minimal visual distraction.
Visual details
The frames show only grey-blue ocean surface seen from above, with soft ripples, subtle wave streaks, muted daylight, no horizon, no land, no vessels, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The composition is a steep downward aerial view that fills the frame with water texture, with no foreground subject, horizon line, or fixed object visible to confirm camera movement from the stills alone.

Tags

oceanwaterseaaerialdronerippleswavestexturebackgroundbluegreycalmsurfacenatureminimalistwatercolorfluidliquidoceanographymarine

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
69 MB
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

Opening frame of grey-blue ocean water viewed from a steep overhead angle, with small ripples across the surface and no visible people.
This first frame establishes the clip as a clean overhead ocean texture with no land or objects in view. (0:00)
Grey-blue sea surface one second into the clip, showing faint diagonal ripple bands and a soft shift in water texture with no visible people.
This frame shows the water pattern tightening into fine diagonal ripples for use as a neutral visual bed. (0:01)
Mid-clip overhead view of calm ocean surface, with pale ripple streaks crossing darker blue-green water and no visible people.
The frame gives editors a slightly more varied patch of water texture while keeping the image uncluttered. (0:02)
Overhead frame of grey ocean water filling the image, with fine ripples running across a flatter section of surface and no visible people.
This moment provides a broad, even water texture suitable for overlays or a quiet transition. (0:03)

License this clip royalty-free for $79 (Standard: all media, worldwide, perpetual, up to 1M views) or $199 (Extended: unlimited distribution, broadcast TV, theatrical). Instant 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.