Media

Media is a plate under or inside the look. The Media library holds files. The Media inspector frames, grades, and blends the active queue item.

Import

1. Open the Media library tab.
2. Click Import.
3. Pick clips or stills.

Limits: 1 GiB per file, 20 files per import, 128 library items, 32 queue items.

Filter Media searches the library. Size sets card min width from 112 px to 260 px. Grid and list icons change the layout.

Entry actions: Add / Queued, Retry seek index, rename, Delete.

Screen share

Screen share → Capture screen / Reconnect share. Public beta allows display capture. The commercial Stage plan is the plan that advertises this source.

HTML plates

Allowlisted plates: HTML Demo, HTML via Proxy, plus Add.

Paste a page URL to test plus Load is experimental proxy HTML. Freeform URLs stay off in public beta (freeformHtmlMedia: false). The commercial Stage plan is the plan that advertises HTML input.

Queue

The inspector Source group owns the live queue.

• Choose / Add focuses the Media library.
• Clear all empties the queue.
• Loop wraps the current clip at the out point.
• Cycle advances to the next queue item at the out point.

Click a row to activate it. Remove (X) drops that row.

Row subtitles: Screen share, HTML plate, Source-linked, Still image, and keyframe index status.

Volume is independent media audio for video. It is disabled on a source-linked plate.

Show preview / Hide preview opens the framing preview and clip UI on the active row.

Shift+1–9 select queue items 1 to 9. Shift+[ and Shift+] step the queue.

Framing

• Fit: Cover, Contain, Stretch
• Edge: Black, Repeat, Mirror, Extend
• Zoom, Scale, Rotate, Speed, Pan X, Pan Y

Speed is disabled on stills. Every slider accepts modulation and MIDI.

Color

Brightness and Saturation grade the plate. Invert uses the same four modes as the look: Structure, Luminosity, Colors, Everything.

Blend

• Mix, Drive, Luma map
• Color: Pixel / Palette plus Strength
• Mode: Underlay, Mask, Material, plus Custom
• Custom blend dropdown: Normal, Darken, Multiply, and the rest of the editor list, plus an invert toggle
• Effect: None, Refract, Blur, Displace, plus invert
• Look effect: None, Refract, Blur, Displace

Underlay sits the plate behind the glow. Mask uses the glow shape to reveal the plate. Material sends the plate into the colour chain before tonemap.

Clip preview

On an active file (not an HTML plate):

• The preview canvas shows framing only.
• The lightning control arms beat jump. On an onset, the playhead seeks a random point in the in/out region.
• Sense sets beat-jump sensitivity.
• Drag in, out, fade, and the playhead on the timeline.

Use as media

In the audio source dialog, Use as media links the active video file to the plate. One decode. Media Volume is then disabled.

The tables below list fit, edge, blend, and effect catalogs from the product registries.