<p>I don't know what you mean by human readable search terms, as opposed to keywords or tags?</p>

<p>But for a meta search directory service I would recommend (know of)<br>
<a href="http://www.footage.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.footage.net/</a><br>
(If anyone knows of any additional search engine stock video directories, I would love to know about it as well)<br></p>

<p>Otherwise, ya, you would be going through each service looking for footage.<br>
These are the stock services that I am aware of:<br>
<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/video/" rel="nofollow">http://www.shutterstock.com/video/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gettyimages.ca/footage/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gettyimages.ca/footage/</a> &lt;- used by major media outlets<br>
<a href="http://www.pond5.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pond5.com/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.alwayshd.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alwayshd.com/</a><br>
<a href="https://www.videocopilot.net/products/" rel="nofollow">https://www.videocopilot.net/products/</a> &lt;- geared more to adding effects to clips<br>
<a href="http://www.footagesearch.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.footagesearch.com/</a><br></p>

<p>And many more... I am sure others can chime in with their favorite sites.</p>

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2014-07-17T17:46:54.683Z
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eLouai
<p>I use <a href="http://videohive.net/popular_item/by_category?ref=altarvic&amp;category=stock-footage" rel="nofollow">VideoHive</a> - large collection of clips and affordable prices.</p>

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<p>Is there any service where I can describe stock footage that I need using human readable search terms and sentences and send out a search request to multiple footage archives at once, so I will not have to contact each one individually, that will then use real humans or otherwise search intelligently and send me a list of suggested and relevant footage clips?</p>

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2014-07-17T11:52:54.497Z
I don't know, but if there isn't you might consider Amazon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk which is designed for this sort of work. It's not free.
Jim Mack
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2014-07-19T10:09:26.877Z
yeah.  I was going to say mechanical turk.
Jason Conrad
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Stock footage search service
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# Stock footage search service

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-07-17)

Is there any service where I can describe stock footage that I need using human readable search terms and sentences and send out a search request to multiple footage archives at once, so I will not have to contact each one individually, that will then use real humans or otherwise search intelligently and send me a list of suggested and relevant footage clips?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I don't know, but if there isn't you might consider Amazon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk which is designed for this sort of work. It's not free.  
> **username_2**: yeah.  I was going to say mechanical turk.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2014-07-17. Score: 2

I don't know what you mean by human readable search terms, as opposed to keywords or tags?

But for a meta search directory service I would recommend (know of)  
<http://www.footage.net/>  
(If anyone knows of any additional search engine stock video directories, I would love to know about it as well)

Otherwise, ya, you would be going through each service looking for footage.  
These are the stock services that I am aware of:  
<http://www.shutterstock.com/video/>  
<http://www.gettyimages.ca/footage/> <- used by major media outlets  
<http://www.pond5.com/>  
<http://www.alwayshd.com/>  
<https://www.videocopilot.net/products/> <- geared more to adding effects to clips  
<http://www.footagesearch.com/>

And many more... I am sure others can chime in with their favorite sites.


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### Answer by username_4 on 2014-07-17. Score: 1

I use [VideoHive](http://videohive.net/popular_item/by_category?ref=username_4&category=stock-footage) - large collection of clips and affordable prices.


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