Content Manager

The content manager is where you can find all the assets contained under the ‘Project Contents’ heading on the left-hand side. This is split into several sections: Filters, Bins and Libraries.

Filters: These are active filters that will always show you the content that matches the name of the Filter. They are updated automatically and remain active the entire time and are a quick way of finding content in smaller projects. These will all be empty and inactive in newly created projects.

Bins: These very useful for managing lots of assets in larger projects. They are manually created and named and only show content that was manually placed within them. Multiple Bins can be grouped together in a Group. 

Libraries: This is where you bring content into a project. Content can be imported from local hard drives, network drives and third-party media stock providers such as Audio Network, Amazing Music Tracks and Pond5. Cloud storage providers can be added by clicking the + icon next to the library heading, we currently support: Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Photos, OneDrive and pCloud. 

When selecting a Filter, Bin or Library, the contents within will show in the section on the right, this is where you will see assets (Clips, Audio, Images etc) the view can be changed to show just the thumbnail images as tiles (Tiles view) or it can be switched to show a thumbnail image and information about the assets (List view).

The 'Libraries' section of the content manager has been expanded to allow adding cloud storage support from the supported vendors. 

Note: Lightworks Free is limited to only one single cloud storage provider to be signed in at any one time. The Lightworks Create and Pro versions allow for more than one provider at any one time.

Once added, the cloud provider will appear active in the list under ‘Cloud storage’.

The library can be viewed by simply clicking the name of the cloud storage provider.

Filters are extremely useful for finding your content quickly and easily. They are active searches that always show the content that is available within them. They do not need to be refreshed, as they are always active within the project. The Filter names become active when there is content within them and inactive when they are empty.

Bins are containers within Lightworks that you can use to store your media and sequences. Although similar to Filters they do not dynamically update like they do, they just show the content you place in them. You can create as many bins as necessary and name then as you require, they can even be grouped together. Bins are useful to help arrange large projects or find clips quickly and easily.