Answers.Body: <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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Answers.Body: <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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Body: <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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Comments.Text: 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.
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Comments.Text: yeah.  I was going to say mechanical turk.
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ThreadText: # 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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  > **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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  ### 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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