Search
One query, three providers. Filter chips compare results side by side.
Feature
Stock footage is a tab-switching tax: open a site, search, download, import, rename, sort. Aperture ends the tax — the stock panel lives in your library, and import lands the clip as a fully processed library asset, ready to cut.
The easy explanation
On other tools, "import" means a file lands in your downloads folder and now your real work starts. In Aperture, import runs the real ingest pipeline: storage, proxies, catalog entry, transcript if there's audio. The clip is searchable and cuttable seconds later — with every other asset in your library.
One query, three providers. Filter chips compare results side by side.
Preview in the grid. Choose the shot, not the site.
Real ingest — storage, proxies, catalog. Seconds, not a side quest.
Drag it into the timeline like any other asset. It's home already.
Details that matter
Provider API keys are stored in settings, never sent to the browser.
Wikimedia audio search feeds the music lane — auto-duck keeps it under the voice.
Downloads are allow-listed and size-capped. The ingest path is hardened, not hopeful.
Commons search works out of the box — attribution metadata comes along.
Feature · Stock import
Pixabay, Pexels, Wikimedia — one search bar, three providers. Import is real ingest: the clip is searchable and cuttable before your tea is drinkable.
Search stockPixabay, Pexels, and Wikimedia — imported as real assets, not downloads.