> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.trycontinuum.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Library

> One searchable home for every image and video — uploads, generations, clips, and competitor inspiration.

The Library is your brand's media home. It unifies everything visual — files you upload, creative you generate in AI Studio, canvas outputs, clips, reels, and re-hosted competitor creative — into one searchable, semantically indexed grid.

## Media and Inspiration

The Library has two views:

* **Media** — your brand's own images and video.
* **Inspiration** — competitor organic posts and paid ad creatives to draw from. This is the same engine as [Brand Spy](/brand/spy), embedded here.

## Where media comes from

Every asset carries its **source**, so you can browse by where it came from:

| Source                         | What it is                                    |
| ------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------- |
| **Upload**                     | A file you added.                             |
| **AI generated**               | Output from an AI Studio generation.          |
| **Canvas**                     | An artifact produced on the canvas.           |
| **Clip** / **Reel**            | A generated short clip or a stitched reel.    |
| **Hyperframe**                 | A composited motion graphic.                  |
| **Inspiration**                | A re-hosted competitor creative.              |
| **Chat upload** / **Backfill** | Media added through chat or imported in bulk. |

## Finding and organizing

* **Semantic search** finds media by what's in it, not just the file name.
* **Detected-object overlays** highlight what an image contains; toggle them on or off.
* **Collections** group related media for a campaign or theme.

<Info>Deeper analysis of your media depends on your plan. See [pricing](https://trycontinuum.ai/#pricing).</Info>

## Using media

Media flows into the rest of Continuum:

* **Drag it onto the [canvas](/studio/canvas)** as a reference.
* **Generate clips** from longer video.
* **Publish** finished video to the [content calendar](/organic/calendar).
* **Save competitor inspiration** to boards from the Inspiration view.

## What's next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="The canvas" icon="pen-ruler" href="/studio/canvas">
    Use library media as references.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Brand Spy" icon="binoculars" href="/brand/spy">
    Where competitor inspiration is tracked.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>