Cloud Integrations

Vū Studio connects to major cloud storage and content services — Box, Frame.io, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Shutterstock — so you can browse and play media directly from your existing libraries, without downloading and re-uploading everything.

Available Integrations

Service	Status	What you can do
Box	Beta	Browse Box folders and play images, videos, and PowerPoint files
Frame.io	Generally Available	Browse projects and play approved assets
Google Drive	Beta	Browse folders and play videos/images directly
Microsoft OneDrive	Beta	Browse folders and play videos/images directly
Shutterstock	Generally Available	Browse and play purchased Shutterstock assets
Music Media Playback (Windows)	Generally Available	Synchronize background music with any media playing on Windows, including Spotify, YouTube, and other media players

Connecting an Integration

1. Open the profile menu in the top right and click Account
2. Scroll to the Integrations section at the bottom of the Account page
3. Click Connect next to the service you want to add
4. You'll be redirected to that service's OAuth login page
5. Authorize Vū Studio to access your account
6. You're redirected back — the integration's content becomes available inside your Library

Where Integrations Live

Integrations have their own dedicated folder node, so connected services are grouped together and are easy to find.

• On the library homepage, the Integrations section sits below your team/personal folder and above the Vū Library folder. This keeps your own content first, your connected services next, and the curated Vū libraries last.
• In the left sidebar, there is a top-level Integrations node. Expand it to reveal your connected integrations, the same way other folders expand in the sidebar. Collapse it when you want a shorter list.

Grouping integrations under a single node means adding or removing a connected service changes only what appears under that node — the rest of your library layout stays put.

Using Integration Content

Once connected, integration content appears as a section in the Asset Library. Browse folders just like your personal library; click any asset to preview it, or click Cast to play it directly on your connected display.

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Integration content is streamed from the source service rather than processed by Vū's media pipeline. Thumbnails and playback may behave slightly differently from uploaded assets. For best performance on critical production content, upload it directly to your Vū library.

Box

Browse your Box folders from inside Vū Studio and play their contents on a display, without downloading files and re-uploading them. Box is in beta.

To connect: Profile menu → Account → scroll to Integrations → find the Box (Beta) card → click Connect → sign in to Box and authorize Vū Studio → you are returned to the Account page and Box becomes available in your library. To disconnect later, click Remove on the same card; that revokes Vū Studio's access and removes Box from your library.

Where it lives: one.vu.studio/library/integrations/box — click the Vū Studio icon to go Home → click Asset Library → expand Integrations in the left sidebar → click Box.

What you can do

• Browse your folders as they are in Box. Folders open in place, and the breadcrumb trail at the top of the page walks you back up. Each subfolder shows how many usable files it holds, so you can tell an empty folder from a full one before opening it.
• Search the folder you are in. Type in the search box in the top navigation bar — it filters the folders and files of the open folder by name. Clear it to get the whole listing back.
• Preview and play. Click any asset to preview it, or click Cast to play it on your connected display, exactly as with an asset in your own library.
• Play PowerPoint files. .ppt and .pptx files from Box present the same way as a presentation uploaded to Vū Studio.

Limits

• Only images, videos, and PowerPoint files are listed. Vū Studio filters everything else out of the listing, so documents, archives, and design files in a Box folder are not shown and cannot be cast. Supported types are the common image formats (JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP, HEIC/HEIF, BMP, TIF/TIFF, SVG), the common video containers (MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WEBM, M4V, WMV, MPG/MPEG), and PPT/PPTX.
• Thumbnails come from Box and are generated at a smaller size than Vū Studio's own, so a Box tile can look softer than a tile for an uploaded asset. A file uploaded to Box moments ago may show a generic placeholder until Box finishes generating its thumbnail.
• Content is streamed from Box, not processed by Vū Studio's media pipeline — the same caveat as every other integration (see the note under Using Integration Content). For critical production content, upload it to your Vū library.
• Box's own rate limits apply. A very large folder browsed heavily can be throttled by Box, which results in an error or a missing subfolder count; wait a moment and try again.
• If your Box session expires, Vū Studio asks you to re-link the account. Reconnect from the Box (Beta) card on the Account page.

Frame.io

Browse your Frame.io accounts, workspaces, and projects. Approved assets from review workflows are available for direct playback — useful for content teams where editors deliver finished assets through Frame.io.

To connect: Profile menu → Account → Integrations → Frame.io → Connect → authorize your Adobe account.

Google Drive (Beta)

Browse your Google Drive folders hierarchically. Supported video and image file types can be played directly. Unsupported types are shown but can't be cast.

Beta note: the Google Drive integration is in beta and may behave inconsistently in edge cases. Please report issues via the profile menu → Feedback.

Microsoft OneDrive (Beta)

Browse your OneDrive folders hierarchically. Supported video and image file types can be played directly. Unsupported types are shown but can't be cast.

Beta note: the OneDrive integration is in beta. Please report issues via the profile menu → Feedback.

Shutterstock

Browse and play your purchased Shutterstock assets directly from the Asset Library without re-uploading.

To connect: Profile menu → Account → Integrations → Shutterstock → Connect → authorize your Shutterstock account.

Music Media Playback (Windows)

Vū Studio can synchronize background music with any media actively playing on Windows — including Spotify, YouTube, and other media players. This allows your LED display environment to respond to or accompany whatever audio is playing on the connected Windows machine.

To configure: Open Device Settings (sliders icon in the top-right header) → Music to enable and configure music playback integration.

This is about audio already playing on the Windows machine

This integration synchronizes with whatever is playing in another application on the connected Windows machine — it does not upload or store any music in Vū Studio. To upload music files into your library and add audio to a scene, see Music and Audio.

BrightSign

Beyond cloud storage, Vū Studio supports playback on BrightSign digital signage players. A BrightSign player runs the Vū Studio Web Player on dedicated signage hardware, so a fixed display (lobby screen, wayfinding kiosk, menu board) can play your Vū Studio content without a computer attached.

How BrightSign licensing works

Signage players draw from the same Web Player license pool as browser-based players, but they bind their license to the device's hardware serial number rather than to browser storage. This matters for signage because kiosks are routinely factory-reset, have their storage wiped, or have their launcher artifact reinstalled — any of which would otherwise strip a normal browser player of its identity and consume ("burn") a license.

Because the license is tied to the hardware serial:

• First boot — an unlicensed player prompts you to claim a license (the same claim flow as any Web Player). Once it comes up licensed, the device records the binding.
• Every boot after — the device re-establishes its licensed identity automatically from its hardware serial. No re-claiming is needed.
• After a factory reset, storage wipe, or reinstall — the device comes back with the same license, because identity is read from hardware, not local storage.
• When a license is revoked — the binding is cleared and the same physical device can be claimed again later, or the license reassigned to a different player.

Content state (what was playing) is also restored after a reboot, so a signage display returns to its previous content without manual intervention.

Managing signage players

Registered players — including which ones are hardware-bound signage devices — are listed under Settings → Manage Media Players, where each player's device serial is shown.

For rolling out many signage players at once, a Batch Assign Signage option on that same settings section lets an admin pre-assign licenses by serial. Paste one serial, name per line; Vū Studio previews the parsed count, warns if the number of serials exceeds the licenses available, assigns up to your license limit, and shows a per-row result after submit. Each pre-bound device then picks up its license automatically on its next reboot — no on-screen QR scan or live connection required. Serials already bound to another player are skipped rather than silently re-bound.

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Physical setup of BrightSign hardware — installing the launcher package, firmware, and network/provisioning steps — is a device-level task typically handled with your Vū team and is outside the scope of this page. This section covers how BrightSign players behave and are licensed within Vū Studio.