The Library
The Asset Library is the central hub for all your media in Vū Studio. Click Asset Library in the top navigation to open it. Everything you play on your displays lives here — your own uploaded files, curated asset libraries from Vū, and content from any connected cloud services.
Library Sections
The left sidebar in the Library shell groups your content into two main areas:
Team Library
Contains your uploads and shared folders. Standard entries:
- Uploads — all files you (or your team) have uploaded
- Favorites — assets you've starred for quick access (toggle the favorite icon on any asset)
- Folders — your team's named folders (e.g. project, client, or event folders)
Team content is shared with everyone on the team unless permissions are scoped at the folder level. See Sharing Folders → for permission details.
Vū Library
Curated asset libraries from Vū — background environments, abstract loops, branded content, and more. Some are included with your plan; others may require an additional subscription.
Connected Integrations
If you've connected a cloud or stock service, those assets become browsable from inside the Library. The Integrations area of the Library (one.vu.studio/library — click the Vū Studio icon to go Home → click Asset Library, then scroll to the Integrations row) shows one tile per service available to your team:
| Integration | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Box, Frame.io, Google Drive, OneDrive | Browse the files in your connected cloud storage |
| Shutterstock | Search the Shutterstock library; View Purchased lists the images your team has already licensed |
| Unsplash | Search the Unsplash photo library |
Click a tile to open that service's grid. Connect services from the Account page (top-right profile menu → Account → Integrations). See Integrations →.
Searching Shutterstock and Unsplash
The Shutterstock and Unsplash grids (one.vu.studio/library/integrations/shutterstock and one.vu.studio/library/integrations/unsplash; Asset Library → Integrations → Shutterstock or Unsplash) behave the same way:
- Click the Shutterstock or Unsplash tile in the Integrations row to open its grid.
- Type your terms into the Vū Studio search bar at the top of the page. The grid re-queries the provider each time the search changes, and clearing the search returns the default browse results.
- Scroll the grid. The next batch of results loads automatically as you reach the bottom of what's already there.
- Click a result to work with it like any other asset — play it on a connected display, or save it into your own library so it stays available.
Each batch now returns more results than it used to, so a single scroll brings back a bigger set of images and you spend less time scrolling before you find a usable one. Nothing about how you search changes — the same query simply fills the grid faster.
Playing Content
- Make sure you're connected to a player (the short-ID indicator in the top bar should be active)
- Click any asset thumbnail to select it
- Click Play or Cast to send it to the connected display
Adding Media
Click the Add Media (➕) button in the toolbar above the library grid:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| File | Upload images, videos, or other supported files from your device |
| Web | Add a web URL as a playable source |
| NDI | Add a live NDI video feed |
| Text | Create a text overlay layer |
| App | Add an application as a playable item |
| Animation | Add a generated or imported animation |
The dialog also lets you choose between Standard Quality and High Quality processing for uploads. Files can be dropped directly onto the dialog (Drop files here or browse files). Uploads require the browser to remain open until they finish; processing on Vū's servers continues without the browser open.
Audio files (MP3, WAV, and OGG) upload the same way and appear in the library as audio assets. An audio asset can play as background audio on a player, or be attached to a scene so it plays alongside the visuals — see Music and Audio →.
See Uploading Media → for supported formats and processing details.
Switching Between Grid and List View
The Library can show your folders and assets either as tiles or as rows. Rows are the faster read when a folder holds a lot of similarly-named files, or when you care about size and modified date more than about thumbnails.
Where the control is: the Switch view toggle at the top of the Library —
https://one.vu.studio/library — click the Vū Studio icon to go Home → click Asset Library.
The toggle has two buttons:
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Grid | Thumbnail tiles — the original view |
| List | One row per folder and per asset |
What the list view shows. Each row carries a small thumbnail plus four columns:
| Column | Contents |
|---|---|
| Name | Folder or asset name |
| Type | For folders: Folder, Shared folder, or Team folder. For assets: the asset type |
| Size | File size |
| Modified | When it last changed |
Click any of those four column headers to sort by it; click the same header again to reverse the direction. Folders and assets are sorted independently but share the same column widths, so they read as one continuous list with folders on top.
Everything that works in the grid still works in rows — multi-select, drag and drop between folders, the right-click menus, and the per-row action menu at the end of each row.
Your choice of Grid or List is remembered in the browser you made it in, so the Library opens the way you left it. It is a per-browser preference, not an account setting, so a different computer starts on Grid again.
Canvas Designs in Your Library
Canvas designs — the multi-page interactive screens you build in the Canvas Designer — are now ordinary library assets. They sit alongside your images, videos, scenes, playlists and animations instead of living only on the Canvas page.
What you can do with a design in the Library
- Find it. It appears in folder listings, in library search, and in the command palette.
- File it. Move it into and between folders, rename it, favorite it, copy it, and delete it, exactly as you would any other asset.
- Cast it. Cast a design to a display straight from the Library, in addition to casting it from the Canvas page or from an Experience.
- Preview it in the Remote. A cast design renders in the Remote's preview, and the preview follows the design — if someone taps a button on the wall that jumps to page 3, the Remote shows page 3.
Permission comes from the folder it lives in
There is no separate share toggle on a canvas design any more. What you can do to a design is decided by your permission on the folder holding it — the same model that governs every other asset:
| Your folder permission | In the Library | Opening the design | Editing and saving | Casting | Move / rename / delete |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | Not listed | Not available | — | — | — |
| Viewer | Listed | Opens read-only, marked View only | Blocked | Allowed | Blocked |
| Editor | Listed | Opens editable | Allowed | Allowed | Allowed |
| Owner | Listed | Opens editable | Allowed | Allowed | Allowed |
A viewer can page through a design and cast it, but the editing tools are unavailable rather than merely hidden — so you cannot move an element you were never allowed to save. Editing is blocked on the server as well as in the interface.
Moving a design changes who can edit it. Drag a design into a more restrictive folder and fewer people can edit it; there is no per-design flag to keep in step. See Sharing Folders for how folder permissions are granted.
Creating a design from Add Media
The Add Media modal has a Canvas entry. It is a shortcut rather than an in-modal editor — choosing it takes you to the Canvas Designer, because building a design needs the full editor. If you have unsaved work in the modal you are warned before it navigates away.
The dedicated Canvas page remains exactly as it was, as the place to create, search and browse designs.
Searching and Filtering
There are two ways to find assets:
- Search bar — type any part of a file or folder name at the top of the library grid. Results update in real time across the current folder or library section, and include folders that match your search alongside individual files.
- Sort — use the Sort dropdown in the toolbar to order assets by Name (A–Z or Z–A) or by Newest/Oldest.
Folders in Search Results
Search results now surface folders that match your search text, not just individual files. When you type a term, any folder whose name matches appears in the results next to the matching assets, so you can jump straight to a folder without navigating the tree manually. This is especially useful when you organize content into many named folders and remember the folder name but not the exact file.
Because folders and files are matched together, searching a project or client name will typically return both the project folder and any loose assets named after it in one pass.
Folder Actions
The ... Menu (Folder Toolbar)
Every folder view has a ... button in the top-right corner of the content area. This menu acts on the folder you are currently viewing and contains:
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Create Folder | Create a new subfolder inside the current folder |
| Present Mode | Launch the current folder's contents in a continuous playback slideshow on the connected display |
| Rename | Rename the current folder |
| Sharing | Configure sharing settings — control who on your team can view or edit this folder |
| Cache | Push the folder's contents to the connected Vū Media Player for faster local playback |
| Move | Move the entire folder to a different location in your library |
| Copy | Duplicate the folder and its contents to another location |
| Delete | Permanently delete the folder and all its contents |
| Select Thumbnail | Choose a custom cover image for the folder tile |
| Save as Playlist (Beta) | Save the folder's assets as a playlist that plays them in order — see Playlists → |
| Unshare with Team | Remove the folder from team sharing, making it visible only to you |
Right-Clicking a Folder Tile
Right-clicking a folder tile in the grid opens a context menu that acts on that specific folder. It contains a subset of the above options, plus:
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Select all | Select all items (folders and assets) visible in the current view |
| Rename | Rename the selected folder |
| Sharing | Configure sharing settings for the selected folder |
| Cache | Cache the selected folder's contents to the connected player |
| Move | Move the selected folder to another location |
| Copy | Copy the selected folder to another location |
| Delete | Delete the selected folder |
| Select Thumbnail | Choose a custom cover image for the selected folder |
The ... toolbar button manages the folder you're inside (the current view). Right-clicking a folder tile manages that specific folder from its parent view.
Asset Actions
Quick Actions (Toolbar Icons)
When one or more assets are selected, a row of quick-action icons appears in the toolbar:
| Icon | Action |
|---|---|
| Copy | Duplicate the selected asset(s) in place |
| Add to folder | Copy the selected asset(s) into a folder |
| Rename | Rename the selected asset |
| Download | Download the original file to your device |
| Delete | Permanently delete the selected asset(s) |
Right-Clicking an Asset
Right-click any asset (or select one or more and right-click) to open the full context menu:
| Option | Who can use it | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Select all | All users | Selects every asset in the current view |
| Toggle Favorite | All users | Adds or removes the asset from your Favorites folder |
| Create Experience | All users | Creates a new Experience using this asset as the source |
| Duplicate | All users | Makes a copy of the asset in the current folder |
| Copy to | All users | Copies the asset to a folder you select |
| Move to | All users | Moves the asset to a folder you select |
| Edit With vu.ai | All users | Opens the asset in the vu.ai editing environment |
| Select Thumbnail | All users | Choose a custom thumbnail image for the asset |
| Set as Splash | Admins only | Sets this asset as the splash screen background on the connected Vū Media Player |
| Set as Screensaver | Admins only | Sets this asset as the screen saver on the connected Vū Media Player |
Set as Splash and Set as Screensaver are only available to users who are an Admin of the currently connected media server. These options will appear greyed out if you do not have admin access to the connected player.
The screen saver inactivity timeout duration is configured separately in Settings → Media Server Settings → Screen Saver → Timeout Duration. See Settings → for details.
Setting the Splash Screen Background
The splash screen is what displays on your LED wall when no content is actively playing. To set a custom background image or video:
- Find the asset you want to use in the library
- Right-click the asset
- Choose Set as Splash
The change takes effect on the connected player immediately. To customize other splash screen elements (welcome message, QR code visibility, logo, etc.) go to Settings → Media Server Settings. See Settings →.
Setting the Screen Saver
The screen saver plays on the connected wall after a period of inactivity, taking over the splash screen until someone interacts with the system again.
Setting it has two requirements: you must be connected to the player you're setting it on (the short-ID indicator in the top bar is active), and you must be an Admin of that Vū Media Server. Without both, the screen saver options are greyed out.
Using a Single Asset
- Find the asset you want to use in the library
- Right-click the asset
- Choose Set as Screensaver
Vū Studio confirms with a Saved Screensaver! message, and the connected player picks up the change straight away.
Using a Folder as a Slide Show
You are not limited to one file. A folder in Vū Studio can be designated as the screen saver, and the player then plays that folder's contents as a slide show on the splash screen — so an idle wall cycles through a set of images instead of holding one static frame.
- In the Library, browse to the folder you want to use. Because every asset in the folder becomes part of the rotation, it's worth creating a folder that holds only the content you want on an idle wall (see Organizing Folders →).
- Select the folder and open its actions menu — the
...button in the top-right of the content area while you are inside the folder, or right-click the folder tile from its parent view. - Choose the screen saver option to designate that folder as the screen saver slide show.
- Leave the wall idle for the configured timeout to see the slide show start.
Because the slide show follows the folder rather than a fixed list of files, you change what the screen saver shows by adding or removing assets in that folder — there's no need to set the screen saver again. Sharing the folder with your team means everyone is curating the same rotation.
Timeout and Exiting
Configure how long the player waits before starting the screen saver in Settings → Media Server Settings → Screen Saver → Timeout Duration (in minutes). See Settings →.
The system has to stay idle for that entire duration. Moving the mouse, pressing any key, or sending a command from Vū Studio exits the screen saver and returns the wall to what it was showing.
Favorites
Click the heart icon on any asset to toggle it as a favorite. All favorited assets are accessible from Favorites in the left sidebar for quick access without browsing folders.
Organizing with Folders
Assets can be organized into folders for easier browsing. Right-click an asset and choose Copy to or Move to to place it in a folder. To create a new folder, use the ... menu → Create Folder, or right-click in empty space within a folder.
See Organizing Folders → for full details on creating, renaming, and sharing folders.
A folder can also be saved as a playlist, which turns its contents into a saved, ordered sequence you can cast in one action. Use Save as Playlist in the folder actions menu, then manage the result from Playlists →.
Resizable Folder Panels
The folder panel — the column that lists your folders alongside the content grid — can be resized so it fits the way you work. This is available in two places:
- In the Library, drag the edge of the folder panel to make it wider or narrower. Widen it when you have deeply nested folders or long folder names; narrow it to give the content grid more room.
- In the Display Dashboard's slide-out media panel, the folder section is shown by clicking the Folders button. When that section is visible, you can resize its width the same way.
Your chosen width is applied to the panel so you don't have to re-adjust it each time you open the view.
If the folder panel seems too narrow to read long folder names, drag its edge outward. If it's crowding your media grid, drag it back in.
Pinned Folders in the Dashboard
The Display Dashboard has a slide-out media panel that lets you browse — and drag and drop — media directly onto your displays. You can pin folders in that panel so the folders you use most are always a click away, instead of navigating the full folder tree each time.
To work with pinned folders in the dashboard:
- Open the Display Dashboard.
- Open the slide-out media panel and click the Folders button to show the folder section.
- Pin a folder for quick access from there, and browse your pinned folders at the top of the panel.
Pinned folders are tied to your account, so each team member curates their own set. Folders you pin elsewhere in Vū Studio (for example, Pin folder from a folder's context menu in the Library) are part of the same personal pinned-folder collection.