The media library

5Importing media

The library gathers every file your stories need. The "Importer" (import) button, at the top of the page next to the search bar, uploads files from your computer:

• images, flat or 360 (equirectangular projection),
• videos, regular or 360,
• audio files for commentary and ambient sound,
• PDF documents to consult,
• GPS data (tracks and geographic points),
• 3D objects, including animated avatars.

You can also pick ready-to-use content from the MODÈLE menu, "Médias" submenu: the "Récupérer le média" (retrieve the media) button copies the chosen file into your library.

What the media sheet tells you about the file. For a 3D model, the sheet shows a review: dimensions in metres, triangle and vertex counts, the textures and the size of the largest one, the animations held in the file with their duration, the file size, and warnings whenever something deserves your attention. For a video, the row of available resolutions carries a refresh button: the higher resolutions sometimes only arrive after encoding, and that button goes and fetches them. Each language video has a status button of its own, opening its upload status and its links. If an upload stays stuck, that is where you restart it.

That confirmation is more useful than it looks: it tells you how many stories use the file. It is the only place where that count appears, and it is what stops you editing an image believing it only affects the story you have open.

Deletion, however, asks for a second confirmation. That is the safety rail of the path: editing has one gate, deleting has two.

6Media types

The library classifies each file along two axes: its type (the nature of the file) and, for images and videos, its format (the way it is displayed). These two axes are what you find in the filters.

In the library and in every media selection window, a 360 or 180 pill sits on the thumbnail of an immersive media file, top left, and next to its name in list view. A flat media file carries no pill: the absence of a pill is the information.

If you pick a flat media file as a scene backdrop, the editor warns you that immersion will be limited: the "Média non-360° sélectionné" (non-360 media selected) message does not block you, but it deserves to be heard.

Not every format travels on both channels

A media file's detail sheet shows two compatibility pills, one for the web and one for headsets, each with a tooltip on hover, as soon as a file has been chosen. They appear neither on the library cards nor in the details view: open the sheet to see them. Green: the format works. Orange: it works, but degraded. Red: it does not work. Here are the cases where the pill is not green.

Everything else travels fine: audio, 3D objects, standard and monoscopic 360 images, and the other video formats. A file whose type is not recognised, on the other hand, comes out red on both sides.

7Filtering, sorting, finding

As the library grows, three tools combine to find a media file again: the story filter, the "Filtres" (filters) panel and sorting.

The story filter

A drop-down selector filters media by usage:

• "Sans filtre" (no filter): all your media, regardless of usage.
• "Toutes les stories" (all stories): media used in at least one story.
• "Non utilisé" (unused): media not used in any story. This is the setting to pick when cleaning up and freeing storage space.
• A specific story: the selector then lists your stories; picking one shows only the media it uses.

The "Filtres" panel and labels

The "Filtres" button opens a panel that filters by labels: keywords you freely attach to your media from their detail sheet ("north-site", "season-2026", "interview"...). Labels are your filing system: the earlier and the more consistently they are applied, the easier the library remains to navigate. The interface itself never uses the word "label": the button is called "Filtres" (filters), creating one is "Nouveau tag" (new tag) and the management window is "Edition des filtres" (filter editing).

Sorting

The sort selector offers six orders: modification date one way then the other, creation date also both ways, name A to Z and name Z to A. In the details view (see the next section), the column headers offer the same. One important caveat: for the time being these commands no longer change the order on screen. The arrow does flip, but the list comes back to the same ranking, from the most recently added media to the oldest. To find a media file, rely on the search box, the tags and the per-story filter.

8Two views and the preview

A toggle button at the top of the library switches between two presentations:

• The gridYour media as thumbnails, the classic visual layout.
• The details viewA compact list with the Nom (name), Créé le (created on), Modifié le (modified on) and Taille (size) columns, sortable by column. A padlock flags media used in a story. This is the most efficient layout for large libraries.

Your display choice is remembered and also applies to the media selection windows you open elsewhere on the platform.

The preview

Hovering a card reveals three actions: a pencil to edit the media, an eye to preview it, a bin to delete it. A tooltip shows the media's transcript along the way, failing that its automatic description, failing that its automatic keywords; it never shows the "Description" you typed in yourself.

The eye opens the "Aperçu" (preview) window. Only monoscopic 360 images and videos can be explored in spherical navigation: you drag to look around, exactly as the visitor will. Side-by-side 360 files and 180 files stay flat. A toolbar gathers zoom, four movement arrows and full screen. You validate the real rendering of a media file before even creating the scene that will use it.

9The library's AI tools

Three artificial intelligence assistants speed up cataloguing and search. They are enabled from "Mon compte" (my account), on the "Fonctionnalités IA" (AI features) card, and they are off by default. Both switches on that card stay greyed out, with the "Abonnement requis" (subscription required) badge, until the account has a paid subscription: the Transcription and Analysis blocks of the media sheet then do not appear at all.

Their first use, during an import, opens a consent request. It deserves reading rather than clicking: it states that these functions go through the Google Gemini API, and that your files are sent there for analysis. Both boxes, transcription and image analysis, arrive ticked: untick the one you do not want before accepting. The closing cross means "Refuser" (refuse), and a refusal is never asked again: to revisit that choice, go back to the "Fonctionnalités IA" card in "Mon compte".

• Automatic image analysisWhen an image is imported, the AI generates a description and tags from its visual content.
• Automatic audio transcriptionWhen a spoken audio file is imported, the AI transcribes a preview of the first 10 seconds; the "Transcrire tout" (transcribe all) button then processes the whole file, and the resulting text remains editable. That button is only offered in the sheet where you have just picked the file, before validating the import. Files recognised as purely musical are not transcribed.
• AI searchThe library's search field can switch to AI mode. It then searches the generated descriptions and tags rather than file names: you find an image by its content ("beach", "workshop") even if the file is called IMG_0042.