Find files in your Library

The search box at the top of Library looks inside your footage, not just at file names.

What search looks at

• File names.
• What’s in each shot. Shotz describes videos moment by moment and photos as a whole once they’ve processed, so you can type what you’re after: “dog on a beach”, “close-up of hands”.
• What was said, from the transcript of any video or audio with speech.

Matching moments come first, each with the time it happens, such as at 0:04. On a desktop, open one and it plays from that moment. Files that match as a whole follow. A file that’s still processing turns up once its description and transcript are in.

Filters

• All, Video, Photos, Audio and Generated narrow the Library to one kind. On a desktop each shows how many files it holds.
• Switch Every file to In an element to see only the photos and clips your elements are made from. On a phone it’s in the ⋯ menu as Show files in elements.
• Tile shape (desktop) changes the grid between square, 9:16, 16:9 and 4:5 tiles. It doesn’t change the files.

Everything else is listed under Recent, newest first. Choose Load more at the bottom for older files.

There are no folders in the Library. To keep a project’s files together, select them and choose Add to an edit → Media bin: they wait in that edit’s media until you use them.