Your library

Assets and folders

Everything you store, and how to keep it in order.
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Assets is the library of everything you store: every take you render and every file you upload, grouped by day. The sidebar filters it by Type (Images, Videos, Uploads), by Project, by Folder, and by what has been Shared with me.

Uploading

Three ways in:

  • The Upload button on the Assets page.
  • Drag files anywhere onto the Assets page. Drop them when the overlay says Drop to upload.
  • The Uploads tab of the reference picker, from any console.

Accepted files: JPEG, PNG and WebP images; MP4 and WebM video; MP3, WAV and M4A audio; and TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 fonts for the typography models. Up to 100 MB each. Uploads made while you are inside a folder land in that folder.

Uploads never expire and do not count against your retention window. They do count towards your storage quota.

Folders

Folders are flat: no folders inside folders. An asset lives in at most one folder, so moving is a move, not a copy.

  • New folder in the sidebar. Names up to 64 characters, unique within your account.
  • Move assets by dragging tiles onto a folder in the sidebar, from a tile’s menu (Move to folder, Remove from folder, New folder), or by selecting several and using Move to folder in the selection bar. Up to 200 at a time. The toast has a five-second Undo.
  • A folder’s menu offers Rename, Assign to (share it with workspace members) and Delete. Deleting a folder puts its assets back in All assets; nothing is lost.

Projects

A project files takes, assets and Elements under one name, usually a film. New project lives in the sidebar here and in Cinema Studio. Uploads stay outside projects. See Cinema Studio.

Selecting several

Tick tiles, or use the select-all box on a day. The selection bar offers Download (several files come as a zip), Favourite, Move to folder, Assign to, Move to project and Delete, with an inline confirm. Up to 100 at a time. In Shared with me, only Download is offered.

Finding things

Search matches the prompt of a take or the name of a file. Inside a folder it searches that folder.

Opening an asset

An upload shows its file name, type, size, dimensions and when it was added. A take shows the model, type, size, date, folder and, when the retention window is running, how many days remain. Use as reference opens the Image console with the asset attached.

Using assets as references

Any image asset can be a reference: press Use as reference, pick it in the reference picker from any console, or type @ in a prompt and choose it from the references list. Audio uploads can be references on the models that take a voice or music clip. See Video.

Deleting

Deleting is immediate and permanent, for takes and uploads alike. There is no restore.