Searching your library

Find footage across your own media.

Asset Search is your whole library in one place — everything the account has gathered, across every project.

Search reads inside your material, not just its titles, so you can look for a moment rather than a file.

Opening Asset Search

Asset Search is the magnifying-glass icon in the rail down the left side of the app. The rail carries no labels, and hovering an icon does not name it.

Beside the search box are UPLOAD, for your own files, and a control that imports from a link. Below it, a row of sources — LIBRARY and each provider connected to your account — switches what you are searching.

Before you search

Asset Search opens on your newest assets rather than an empty page: anything recently uploaded or pulled in from a link, with a count of what it is showing.

Start there when you know something arrived this morning but not what it was called.

Running a search

Type into Search your library or connected sources… and run the search. Nothing runs while you are still typing.

A large library takes a moment to search, and Prism shows that it is working.

Narrowing the results

FILTERS opens the filter panel beside the results.

ASSET TYPE is a checkbox list with six options:

• Video
• Image
• Audio
• Text
• Research
• Website

Tick as many as you want. Untick them to widen the search again.

Reading a result

Each result card shows:

• A FULL ASSET badge, marking it as a whole item rather than a fragment
• The title
• The duration, for anything with a running time
• A + USE action
• A provenance line reading the media type, the source and the date

The provenance line is how you tell two similar-looking clips apart.

Selecting what you want

Choose + USE on a card to add it to your selection.

A running count appears as you go, and Clear selection empties it if you change your mind.

Once anything is selected, USE ASSETS becomes available.

Sending a selection to a project

USE ASSETS asks where the material should go.

When you arrive from inside a project, the destination is already known. A banner names the project you are adding to, and the confirm button counts the selection — ADD 1 TO COASTAL WIND FARM RULING, for example.

Everything you confirm appears in that project's Project Library.

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