Your media library is now a real workspace. Search any video down to the spoken word, browse a big library like files on your computer, reach inside an upload for the exact clips you need, and reorganize without ever losing a file. Here is everything new in Folders, including a few upgrades you will feel before you can name them.
Find the exact moment, not just the file.
Click any file or project and the Media Inspector docks to the right of your folder, so you review without losing your place.
Search a video down to the word. Open the transcript in the Media Inspector and search it. Click any line and the video jumps straight to that sentence. The phrase from minute 23 of a 42-minute recording is one search away.
See the whole story of a file. Details, comments, collaborators, and activity all live in the same panel. The left and right arrow keys move you between items without closing it.
Tell a source from a finished piece. Edited deliverables and Media Studio bundles appear in a Projects section, kept separate from raw footage in Files. You always know what is a source and what is ready to send.
Pro tip from the coaches: Search the idea, not the file name. A phrase someone said on camera finds the clip even when the file is called untitled-v3.
Browse a big library at a glance.
The Folders landing reads like a file system, built to scale well past a few dozen items.
Channel folders and My folders. Switch between the folders shared across your channel and the ones scoped to you, each on its own tab.
Nest folders as deep as the work needs. Create folders inside folders by campaign, event, show, or topic. Each card shows a preview mosaic of recent contents, an item count, and last activity, and breadcrumbs keep you oriented as you drill down.
Find a file inside a 200-item folder. Search within a folder across its files, projects, and subfolders. Switch between grid and list, filter by type, and sort to bring the right thing to the top.
Pin what you reach for. Bookmark any folder to keep it at the top of your Folders page.
Reach inside any upload and grab the clips you want.
A multi-file upload opens into individual clips, so you act on exactly what you need.
Pick clips from a bulk upload. From a fifteen-clip B-roll pack, select the three you want, then start a project or download just those.
Gather across folders with the collector. As you select files, they collect in a bar that stays with you while you move between folders. Pull two clips from one folder and three from another, then add to a folder, create a project in Media Studio, or download, in one action.
Pro tip from the coaches: The collector holds your selection the whole way. Build the set first, jumping folder to folder, then act once at the end.
Organize without fear.
Reorganizing is fast, and nothing destructive happens by surprise.
Drag to organize. Drag a folder onto another to nest it, drag selected media between folders to move it, or drop a file onto empty space to create a subfolder and file it in one step.
Drag in to upload. Drop files from your computer straight onto a folder. They run through the full pipeline, transcript, AI summary, and approval inbox, then land in that folder, ready like anything else you record.
Combine folders with full visibility. Select folders to consolidate, and clickable chips show the files, projects, and subfolders inside each one before you commit.
Rename in place, or Move Contents Up. Rename folders and titles inline. To dissolve a folder, Move Contents Up promotes everything to the parent level, then clears the empty folder.
Delete with a guided flow. Deleting a folder walks you through where your media and subfolders go, and chooses nothing for you. Your media always stays available in your Feed and search results.
The upgrades you feel but cannot see.
Some of the best changes are the ones you never have to think about.
Counts you can trust. Folder counts are precise, and the collector tells you when a file shared by two folders was counted once.
No walls of broken thumbnails. A 300-file folder loads cleanly and stays responsive.
Uploads do the right thing automatically. A dragged-in file gets a transcript, an AI summary, and the proper approval step, ready like anything else you create.
Downloads that do not stall. Multi-clip downloads come straight to you, even for large sets.
Your channel stays your channel. Counts, downloads, and search stay scoped to your workspace.
What stays the same.
Your existing folders and everything in them are intact. A file can live in several folders at once, which is by design. A folder card counts its own direct files; when you select a folder for an action, each file is collected once across its subfolders, and the collector notes any de-duplication.
Common questions.
Here are answers to questions you may have as you work in your upgraded folders for the first time:
Why does my selection count differ from the folder card?
A card shows that folder's own direct files. When you select a whole folder for an action, we gather the files across it and its subfolders and count each one once, so a file shared by a parent and a subfolder is never double-counted. The collector notes when that happens.
What is the difference between Files and Projects?
Files are your raw and source media. Projects are Media Studio bundles or edited deliverables built from that media. They sit in separate sections so a source is never mistaken for a finished piece.
I dragged files onto a folder. Where did they go?
Through the normal pipeline. They are processed for a thumbnail, transcript, and AI summary, enter the approval inbox where it applies, and land in that folder.
Can I search transcripts across a whole folder?
Searching a single video's transcript is live now in the Media Inspector. Folder-wide transcript search is rolling out and turns on per workspace as it reaches you. You can search from your Dashboard to index content from your entire channel.
I copied a link to one clip and it opened the whole upload.
That is a current limitation of how multi-file uploads are grouped. Per-clip links are coming in upcoming work.
Did my existing folders change?
Your folders and their contents are intact. The experience around them is what changed.
Coming soon: folders that organize themselves.
Auto-organizing collections that group your content by context, and folders that understand your productions. Less hand-sorting. More finding.
Log in. Open Folders. Find your work.
š Want the full walkthrough? See How to Use Folders on MarketScale.