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Describe the shot. Find the moment.

Two decades of rights-cleared natural-history footage now searchable in plain language, so the exact licensable clip is minutes away, not hours.

Rights-cleared clips
1M+
Species filmed
7,500
curated archive
20+ yrs

Try These Example Searches

Semantic Search

Search the way you’d describe a shot.

Keyword search only matches the exact words someone typed into a catalog. Semantic search interprets your request, then analyzes both keywords and video pixels themselves for subject, species, behavior, mood, and composition. Describe the shot in plain language and it finds the perfect match, down to five seconds.

Spend less time scrolling and more time creating.

Every result is real footage filmed in the field.

Coqui semantic search for wild animals vocalizing with mouths open, in 4K, well lit and locked off: matched on behavior, key moment identified, filtered to 4K+ resolution, returning 20 results, the exact moment described

Story Assembly

Creative ideas shape the edit. Selects to rough cut.

Whether you’re cutting a single sequence or programming a FAST channel, turn any search result or Clipbin into a highlight reel. Prompt Coqui to prioritize the details, behavior, or story you want to explore. Coqui generates a first-pass timeline and storyboard; then you refine the prompt, adjust the edit, and reshape the story. Export XML to your editing software, where the timeline reconnects to master media and metadata for the fine cut.

Prompt to rough cut: a brief for a 90-second sequence of scarlet macaws in Peru in 4K+ finds matching shots, assembles a rough cut for manual review and fine tuning, and exports XML for Premiere, FCP and Resolve

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Testimonials

“I forwarded selects of my best RED footage to NatureFootage and all of the clips were placed online before I knew it! Now my footage is truly available to a global market.”

Howard HallFrom Howard Hall Productions

“NatureFootage has helped me organize my video library so that buyers can access it quickly and easily. NatureFootage has knowledge of the market, and skill in negotiating, which has increased my High Definition stock sales significantly. Because NatureFootage has a highly skilled sales team, customer service to my clients has improved. NatureFootage has reached new customers with my images. This allows me to be out of the office, out in the field, shooting more stock footage.”

Bob Cranston

“NatureFootage gives my footage top visibility through leading Search Engines, and that means I’m connected worldwide to buyers who might never find me otherwise.”

Ernie Kovacs

“NatureFootage staff are knowledgeable, friendly, courteous, and always available by phone or email if I have a question. It’s great to have this kind of support.”

Daniel Zatz

“I’m very impressed with ClipLog—it’s intuitive and incredibly easy to use.”

Mary Lynn Price

“NatureFootage has the best ocean and nature footage I’ve seen in the two years I’ve been at ABC News.”

Erik PorterfiledRights & Clearances, ABC News

“You have some really great footage… you make my work a whole lot easier. Thank you.”

Win RosenfeldNOVA’s Inside Science

“We enjoy dealing with you and appreciate your fast response times, online access to your collection, great footage and friendly service…”

Lemuel LyesArchival Researcher, Natural History New Zealand

“A Google search first brought us to NatureFootage for stock footage of sea turtles. We downloaded a sample and sent that to the client for review. We then purchased the master footage from NatureFootage right online. Three things were key for this success: we found just what we needed, we could immediately download samples for client review (there was a tight production timeline), and we secured the stock footage at a reasonable cost.”

Gary KalinoskyGiant Ideas (Advertising Agency)

“For this ad, the client and the creative team wanted footage of ocean creatures burrowing in the sand. Searching on Google directed us to results at NatureFootage that included the target animals: Sand Lance and Crabs. We used the preview download function so we’d have footage right in our hands, and we also e-mailed the client links to the NatureFootage site so that they could view the clips directly from their Web browser. Besides the great wealth of material on the site, we really like the digital delivery capability of NatureFootage.”

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