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Search and license 54,000+ drone, aerial, and ocean clips, mostly 4K, from filmmaker Phil Maher.
Remote server: your requests and data go to www.footage.cool. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http footage-cool-4k-drone-aerial-stock-foota https://www.footage.cool/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_footage — Search footage.cool's library of 54,000+ drone, aerial, ocean, underwater, wildlife, and travel clips (4K UHD masters on nearly all), filmedget_clip_details — Get full details for one footage.cool clip: description, tags, location, shot year, duration, people and release notice, collection, thumbnafind_similar_footage — Find clips similar to a given clip: shared subjects, scene, location, and shot year, spread across different shoots so the results are not nbuild_rough_cut — Plan a timed edit from a description: picks and orders clips across different shoots and locations, sets a cut length for each at the chosencheck_clip_rights — Screen whether a license covers an intended use for a clip and which tier fits: commercial, editorial, documentary, internal_corporate, digilicense_clip — Get licensing options and prices for a clip without charging anything: Royalty-Free Standard (from $79), Extended for broadcast (from $199),quote_4k_license — Quote a license for a clip's clean, unwatermarked master. Verifies the master file in storage and reports its exact resolution and codec: necreate_4k_checkout — Create or resume Stripe hosted checkout for a quote. Call ONLY after the user explicitly approves the quoted clip, the master resolution, liget_4k_order — Check an order after checkout. Verifies the payment directly with Stripe, then returns the active license, receipt, license certificate linkget_catalog_overview — Overview of what footage.cool's library covers: clip counts by shot year, scene category, subject, and location (grouped by region), people describe_training_dataset — What footage.cool licenses for AI and machine-learning training: the eligible catalog (clip and hour counts, years, countries, categories), get_dataset_agreement — The full Dataset License Agreement text with its version, SHA-256 hash, and key_terms, a plain-language summary. Show the buyer the key termscope_training_dataset — Count the clips and hours a set of filters matches, with an estimated price for the tier and media. Free, needs no email, and reserves nothiquote_training_dataset — Create a fixed-price quote for a dataset order. Freezes a clip selection unique to this order, prices it, screens the buyer's email domain, accept_dataset_agreement — Accept the Dataset License Agreement for a quoted order on the buyer's behalf. Call ONLY after the buyer has seen the tier, clip count, priccreate_dataset_checkout — Payment step for an accepted dataset order. Proxy orders up to $10,000 get a Stripe hosted checkout URL that the buyer pays in a browser; 4Kget_dataset_order — Status of a dataset order: payment, agreement, the manual review decision, and, once delivered, the private download manifest URL. Poll no fNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.