Search free stock videos and photos without leaving your timeline, then drop the one you like at your playhead with a single click. No plan to build, no credits — you pick every clip yourself.
The usual way to add stock b-roll is a detour: open a stock site, search, download, find the file, import it, drag it onto the timeline, trim it. Do that a dozen times in one video and the detour is most of the work.
Plentake's Stock B-Roll tab keeps the whole thing in the panel. You search, you see the results as thumbnails, you select one, and Place selected at playhead imports it and puts it on your timeline. It's a manual tool on purpose — you choose each clip yourself — and it's free: it never uses credits. Photos and videos come from Pexels.
Want the AI to find and place b-roll for you instead? That's the B-Roll Editor, which plans the whole video from your transcript. Stock B-Roll is the quick, hands-on version for when you already know what shot you want.
Three moves, all inside Premiere Pro.
Type what you need — "city skyline", "typing on laptop" — and choose photos, videos or both. Filter by landscape, portrait or square to match your sequence.
Browse the results right in the panel and select the clip or photo that fits the moment.
Click Place selected at playhead. Plentake imports it and puts it on your timeline as a regular, editable Premiere clip.
Most stock tools send you to a website and leave the downloading, importing and placing to you. Here the search, the preview and the placement all happen in the panel, at your playhead — and it costs nothing.
From an empty search box to a clip on your timeline.
In Premiere Pro: Window → Extensions → Plentake. Sign in with a free account.
It's in the left sidebar of the panel. No transcript or setup needed.
Describe the shot you want. Choose Photos & videos, Photos only or Videos only, and set an aspect ratio if you need one — for example portrait for a vertical edit.
Scroll through the results and click the one you want.
Park the playhead on the timeline where the b-roll should start.
Click Place selected at playhead. The clip lands on your timeline as a normal Premiere clip — trim, move or replace it like any other.
Stock B-Roll is free — no credit card, no credits. Install Plentake and search your first clip in a minute.
Get started — freeYes. It never uses credits. The free plan includes 10 searches and 20 imports a month; paid plans are unlimited.
From Pexels, a library of free stock photos and videos. Pexels is credited in the panel.
Yes. Set the aspect ratio to portrait (9:16) for Shorts, Reels and TikTok edits, or choose landscape or square.
Yes. It lands on your timeline as a normal Premiere clip — trim it, move it, scale it or delete it like any other.
Stock B-Roll is manual: you search and choose each clip yourself, and it's free. The B-Roll Editor reads your transcript, plans the whole video's b-roll and fetches or generates the visuals for you.