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Canvas

What is the canvas

The canvas is the main area for making content. It is the workspace where you place and create your content. The images you upload, the text you write, reference videos, and the results the Agent generates all stay right on the canvas.

You can move around the canvas, zoom in and out, and go from the Full Canvas into the canvas of each clip.

A canvas is made of nodes and connections. Nodes hold the content, and connections show how pieces of content are related.

Canvas features

Clip name in the top-left corner

Shows the name of this clip canvas. Click it to go back to the Full Canvas.

The current clip canvas's name in the top-left corner of the canvas, with an arrow on its left that goes back to the Full Canvas

Left toolbar

The left toolbar: Add node, the Select/Hand tool, Zone, Assets, Discover and Script
  • Add node

Click ➕ to create one of these nodes: Image node, Video node, Audio node, or World node.

A new image node, video node, audio node and world node on the canvas
  • Switch between Select tool and Hand tool (pan)

With either tool, you can click a node to select it, then move or adjust it.

Tip · With the Select tool, holding the left mouse button and dragging draws a selection box instead of moving the canvas. Use it to select several nodes and adjust them together.

With the Hand tool, holding the left mouse button and dragging moves the canvas, so you can move around and look through what is on it. This suits people who are used to dragging to move around an infinite canvas.

  • Zone

Drag to draw a zone and organize the canvas. You can change a zone's color to tell different kinds of content apart.

A zone around three images, with the zone color picker above it

After you draw a zone, you can also click the v-shaped icon to the left of its name to collapse it. This keeps a busy canvas tidy.

A collapsed zone; hovering the arrow to the left of its name shows Expand zone
  • Assets

See the assets in the current project, along with Libraries and My uploads. You can look through your assets quickly and, at any time, drag files from Libraries and My uploads onto the current canvas to use them directly or as references.

  • Discover

Open Discover to browse and collect creative references. You can drag content from Discover straight onto the canvas to use as a reference.

The Discover panel opened from the left toolbar, with search results for “beach at night”
  • Script

Open the script in a pop-up window on the Create tab, so you can read the whole script at any time without going back to the script editor. You can keep the script in view while you make your video.

The Script window open on the Create tab, with each script passage tagged with its clip

Bottom-left toolbar

The bottom-left toolbar on an Asset Canvas: map, connections, Arrange, Marked only, Zoom to fit everything, Keyboard shortcuts and zoom
The bottom-left toolbar on the Create tab's canvas, where the filter button is Approved only
  • Map

Show or hide a small map of the whole canvas. It helps you find your place quickly on a large canvas.

  • Connections

Show or hide the connections between nodes.

  • Arrange

Tidy up the layout of the nodes on the canvas automatically.

  • Approved only

Hide all other nodes and see only the approved ones.

  • Keyboard shortcuts

See the keyboard shortcuts that the Asset Canvas supports. You can search for the action you need to find its shortcut quickly.

The Keyboard shortcuts window: a search field at the top, then the shortcuts for canvas navigation and node selection
Shortcuts for editing nodes, such as Copy, Cut, Paste and Duplicate, and for selection areas
Shortcuts for selection areas, locking and connections, and for running nodes, undo and redo
  • Zoom

Drag the zoom slider to zoom in or out on the canvas.

Clips bar below the canvas

The clips bar at the bottom of the canvas shows the clips in the current project and lets you switch between them, so you can jump quickly from one clip to another.

The clips bar at the bottom of the canvas, expanded to show a thumbnail of each clip

  • Go back to the Full Canvas: Click Full Canvas in the middle of the bar, or press Esc, to go back to the Full Canvas and see all the clips in the project.

  • Expand the clip list: Click anywhere on the bar other than Full Canvas to expand it and see thumbnails of all the clips. A clip that has approved media shows a picture of that media. One without media shows its selected script passage, or is blank.

  • Open a clip canvas: Click a clip in the bar to open its canvas. This is a quick way to jump between the canvases of all your clips.

  • Create a clip: Click the + at the far left to create a new clip.

  • Manage a clip: Click the ··· in the top-left corner of a clip's thumbnail to do the following:

    • Locate in script: Jump to the part of the script that belongs to this clip.
    • Edit script range: Change which part of the script this clip covers.
    • Rename clip: Change the name of the clip.
    • Delete clip: Delete this clip. When you delete it, a message first asks whether to keep the content inside the clip.