What's New in Visuals
My Library used to be one long grid. Everything you had ever made, in one pile, forever.
You could filter it and you could scroll it, but you could not organize it. Once you had a few hundred assets, finding the one you wanted meant scrolling and hoping you spotted it.
That grid is gone. My Library is now a workspace: a sidebar, folders, collections, search that actually covers everything, and a way to act on a hundred things at once.
A sidebar, so everything has somewhere to live
There's now a menu down the left side of My Library:
All assets. Everything, same as before.
Recent. What you just made.
Favorites. The ones you hearted.
Pinned. The ones you want one click away.
Collections.
Folders.
Catalog. Your music, and everything made for it. More on this below.
Trash.
2 things about it worth knowing.
First, every view has its own web address. Open a folder, bookmark it, and it's there tomorrow. Send the link to your manager and they land on exactly the view you were looking at, not the top of the pile.
Second, you can drag the items in the sidebar to reorder them, and the order sticks. Put the folder you live in at the top and leave it there.
Folders and collections, and why you get both
These sound like the same thing. They aren't, and the difference is the whole point.
A folder gives an asset one home. Move things into it, nest folders inside folders, drag to reorder. If a video is in a folder, that's where it lives. This is the one you want for "everything for this release" or "everything for this artist".
A collection lets one asset show up in as many places as it needs to. Adding a video to a collection doesn't move it out of its folder. So the same cover art can sit in your Q3 folder, in a "best of" collection, and in a collection you built for a pitch, all at once, without you making 3 copies of it.
Short version: folders are for filing, collections are for grouping.
Smart collections fill themselves
Some collections you shouldn't have to maintain by hand.
Set up the filters you want, save them as a smart collection, and anything that matches that rule shows up in it automatically from then on. Make one for approved vertical videos, and every approved vertical video you make from now on lands in it on its own.
Smart collections carry a Smart badge, so you can always tell which ones maintain themselves and which ones you fill by hand.
Search that covers your whole library
Before, search, filters and sorting only saw the assets that had already loaded onto the screen. Scroll further, get different results. Counts were whatever happened to be visible.
Now all of it runs across your entire library. Counts and totals are your real numbers.
Filter by: type, project, model, status, tags, aspect ratio, date added, and source and visibility.
Sort by: newest, oldest, name A to Z, or name Z to A.
Group by: session or date, asset type, status, or nothing at all.
Grouping by session is the one people don't expect to like. It puts everything you made in one sitting together, which is usually how you remember making it.
Make the library look the way you think
There's a new Appearance menu that controls the whole workspace. It's not a preview toggle. It changes how you work.
Layout. Grid, Masonry or List.
Thumbnail size. Small enough to scan hundreds, big enough to actually judge one.
Crop or fit. Crop to fill the tile, or fit the whole image so nothing gets cut off.
Card shape. Auto, Square, Portrait or Wide.
What shows on a card. Titles, duration, aspect ratio, model, status chips and tags, each on or off.
How assets open. In a lightbox over the page, or in a side panel next to the grid.
Playback. Your preferences for how video and audio behave.
Turn everything off and size the tiles small when you're hunting for one image. Turn statuses and tags back on when you're reviewing a release with someone.
Select a lot of things, do one thing to all of them
This is the part that saves the most time.
Drag across empty space to lasso a group of assets. Hold Shift to add more to what you've already got. Then a bar appears with everything you can do to the whole selection at once:
Download, Favorite, Rename, Move, Add to collection, Tag, Set status, Link to song, Set visibility, Pin, Share and Delete.
Tagging 40 clips used to be 40 separate jobs. Now it's one.
Send a selection straight into the video editor
One of those actions is different from the rest. Select the clips you want, and send them into a new Composition in one step.
No downloading them first. No re-uploading them on the other side. No hunting through a file picker for the 6 files you already had selected a second ago. They're just there, in the timeline, ready to cut.
Send a selection into a new flow (Alpha preview)
This was in alpha preview at the time, available to a small group. It's open to everyone now.
The same bar could also send a selection straight into a new flow on the visual canvas, the same way it sends one into the video editor.
A details panel that doesn't take you off the page
Click an asset and a panel opens beside the grid. You can drag its edge to make it wider or narrower.
Everything you normally have to go somewhere else for is in it:
Rename it by clicking the title and typing.
Set a status with the status chips.
Favorite it, and set it public or private, with a toggle.
Edit or Remix it from right there.
Add and remove tags in a proper tag editor.
Link it to a song.
Play audio inline, actually in the panel, instead of opening something else to hear it.
When you do want the big version, there's a link to open it full-view in the asset viewer. The point is that you don't have to leave the page for the 90% of things that are quick.
Catalog: your music, and everything made for it
The rest of My Library is organized around files. Catalog is organized around your music, which is how you actually think about the work. It has 3 views.
Songs. Every track you've uploaded. Open one and you get the song alongside every visual linked to it, split into 2 lanes: Official, the finished visuals that are going out, and Working, the versions still in progress. So the approved Canvas loop and the 4 alternates you didn't pick sit on the same page, clearly separated, instead of mixed into one grid.
There's a list view of your songs too, showing a play button, the song's code, its length, and how many assets are linked to it. It's the fastest way to spot the track with 30 visuals and the track with none.
Albums. Your releases. An album groups its songs together, so you can open a release and see the tracks on it and everything made for them, rather than hunting song by song.
Official assets. Everything across your whole catalog that's been marked official, in one place. This is the view to open when someone asks what's actually approved and going out.
You can also drag music files straight into Catalog to upload them.
Also fixed
Drop files anywhere to upload them. Drag files onto My Library, anywhere on the page, and they upload. You don't have to find an upload button first.
Deleting is no longer scary. Deleted things go to Trash and can be brought back. Before, gone meant gone.
Share any asset with a link. Each asset gets its own share link, with public and private control, so you decide what's reachable and what isn't.
The library works on a phone. The toolbar condenses down on small screens, and the Appearance menu scrolls, so you can still reach every option on a narrow screen.
