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Introducing Projects: Workspace-Level Organization for Your Video Library
When you manage footage for multiple clients, everything in one flat list stops working. Projects give you scoped workspaces that filter your entire library, from videos and sources to search and dashboard stats.
You have three active clients. Each has a couple hundred clips across multiple camera cards, a few interview sessions, and a growing pile of B-roll. You open FrameQuery and see all of it in one list.
Finding the right footage means mentally filtering out two-thirds of your library before you start searching. That overhead compounds every time you switch context between clients. Projects remove it.
What Projects do
A project in FrameQuery is a workspace filter. Select a project from the switcher in the nav bar, and the entire app scopes to just that project's content. Your videos tab shows only that project's clips. Your sources tab shows only that project's folders. Your dashboard shows stats for that project alone. Even search defaults to the current project.
Select "All Projects" and you are back to the full, unfiltered view. Nothing is hidden permanently.
The switcher
The project switcher sits in the top nav as a compact pill showing a color dot and the project name. Click it (or press Ctrl+P) and a dropdown opens with your project list, ordered by most recently used. Type to filter, arrow keys to navigate.
From the same dropdown you can create a new project, edit an existing one, or open the management panel to archive or delete projects you no longer need.
Project colors come from a preset palette of twelve OKLCH colors. Every color is tested against both light and dark themes so the dot stays legible.
Sources follow projects
Sources (watched folders, cloud drives) link to projects. A source can belong to multiple projects, since the same drive might contain footage for different clients organized in subfolders.
When you link a source to a project, auto-assign is enabled by default. That means when FrameQuery scans that source and discovers new videos, they are automatically added to every project the source belongs to (where auto-assign is on). You can toggle this per source, per project.
Video professionals rarely add footage one clip at a time. They dump a card, FrameQuery scans it, and the new clips need to land in the right project without manual sorting.
If you remove a source from a project, FrameQuery asks whether to also remove the videos that came from that source. If you say no, the existing video assignments stay, but no future auto-assignment happens.
Many-to-many assignment
Videos can belong to multiple projects simultaneously. Your studio might have a library of stock B-roll that multiple client projects draw from, or interview footage from a single shoot might be relevant to two different deliverables. Duplicating the video entry to put it in two folders would create confusion. Many-to-many assignment avoids that.
Assigning videos to projects works in bulk. Select a set of clips in the videos tab, right-click, choose "Add to project," and pick from your project list. The operation is idempotent, so adding a video that is already in the project is a no-op.
Scoped dashboard
When "All Projects" is selected, the dashboard shows a portfolio overview: a grid of project cards, each displaying video count, total duration, and storage used. Click a card and you switch to that project.
When a specific project is selected, the dashboard shows the same layout as before, but filtered to that project's data. You see processing status, storage breakdown, and activity for that project only.
Scoped search
Search defaults to the current project. If you are working in "Client X" and search for "interview on rooftop," you only get results from Client X's footage.
For the times when you need to search everything, there is a toggle in the search bar to switch between "This project" and "All projects." You can also prefix your query with all: to do a quick global search without changing the toggle state.
What archiving and deletion look like
Archiving a project hides it everywhere: the switcher, the "All Projects" view, the dashboard, search results. It is a soft removal. You can find archived projects in the management panel and restore them with one click.
Deleting a project is permanent, but it only removes the project itself and its assignments. No videos or sources are deleted. Everything that was in that project becomes unassigned, visible again in the "All Projects" view.
Designing for real workflows
Freelancers and production teams juggle multiple clients, switch context often, and need footage kept separate without losing the ability to see everything at once.
Tags do not scope the whole workspace, and folders force videos into a single location. A workspace filter gives the isolation of separate projects over a flat library.
If you have thoughts on how Projects should work or features you would like to see, drop us an email at feedback@framequery.com.