Importing media

Ways in

Route	Handles
Drag from the OS onto the canvas	Images, video, audio — placed where you drop them
The Assets panel	Import into the library first, place later
Insert → Audio	A file picker for audio
Insert → Image Sequence	A multi-file picker; the frames arrive as one timed layer
Insert → Lottie import	See Lottie

Where assets live

Path	Storage
Cloud	Cloudinary, keyed `<kind>:<public_id>`. Audio is uploaded as `resource_type: 'video'`
Local-first	A content-addressed blob store inside the project bundle

See Project files & storage.

The Assets panel

Thumbnails and file sizes, folders for organisation, drag-to-canvas to place. It uses content-visibility, so a large library scrolls without stalling.

Media controls

Once a media layer exists, Style → Media carries:

Control	Applies to
Source	Which asset the layer points at
Trim	In and out points within the source
Speed	Playback rate
Fit	How the source maps to the layer’s frame
Crop	—
Volume	Video and audio

Video layers

Video layers seek frame-accurately during export, not just during preview. A video that looks correct scrubbing in the viewport will land correctly in the file.

Frame blending is available for video whose frame rate does not match the composition’s — it interpolates between source frames rather than duplicating or dropping them.

Image sequences

A multi-file import arrives as a single timed layer, not as N layers. Trim, retime and speed it like any other media.

Time controls

For any media layer, the Settings inspector tab adds:

Time stretch %
Reverse
Freeze frame
Frame blending