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Save a library view with quick filters
A quick filter saves a question, not a list of shots. Arriving at one asks the question again against your library as it stands now, so its results move as your work does.
Quick filters are free on every plan.
What a quick filter saves
Three things, together:
- The typed query in the search box.
- The filter chips you built, with their fields, operators and values.
- The card appearance — how the results are laid out.
A typed query on its own is enough to save. So is a single chip.
What it does not save is the shots. That is the whole point, and it is the difference from a collection.
Create a quick filter
- Build the view you want: type a query, add filter chips, set the layout.
- Click Save as quick filter on the chip bar — it appears as soon as there is something to save.
- Name it after the question it answers. StoryFolder suggests a name from the chip you just built, like Location contains warehouse.
- Confirm. It becomes a row in the rail under Quick filters, with its own address.
Open a quick filter
Arriving puts the query back in the box, applies the chips and applies the layout. The results and the count are worked out fresh, from your library as it is now.
Each result names why it is in front of you — a filter you built, a field by its label, or Transcript. Read that line before you trust a surprising result; see why a result matched.
Leaving puts your own view back. A quick filter is a place you visit, not a mode that follows you around.
Update a quick filter
Change the query, the chips or the layout while you are standing in a saved quick filter and the bar offers Save quick filter changes.
- Click it and the saved view is rewritten in place, keeping its name.
- Ignore it and nothing is saved — navigate away and the quick filter is exactly as it was.
There is no separate revert: leaving without saving is the revert.
Rename or delete a quick filter
Double-click the rail row to rename in place, or right-click for Rename and Delete.
Deleting is permanent
StoryFolder asks first. The saved view is deleted for good and cannot be undone. Your videos, shots and metadata are untouched — you are deleting a saved question, not any material.
Quick filters worth having
- Needs transcript review — the videos you have transcribed but not checked.
- Four- and five-star interview shots — Rating is at least 4 plus whatever marks an interview in your own fields.
- A client, on location, usable — a video field, a shot field and a checkbox in one view.
- Missing project information — a video-level field that is empty, so unfilled projects surface themselves.
The first three depend on fields you defined; a quick filter can only ask about metadata that exists. See Custom fields and Video metadata.
Quick filters vs collections
| Quick filter | Collection | |
|---|---|---|
| Stores | The question | The shots |
| Membership | Recalculated on arrival | Fixed until you change it |
| Good for | Audits, recurring checks, work queues | Selects, approvals, delivery sets |
The moment a set has to stop moving, move it: build the quick filter, get the results right, then add those shots to a collection. A delivery list that keeps changing because somebody edited a field is not a delivery list.
Troubleshooting
| What you see | What is happening |
|---|---|
| No Save button | Nothing has changed. There is no query, chip or layout change to save |
| Results you did not expect | Read every chip and the query together, then check a result's match reason |
| Something that used to be there has gone | The underlying metadata changed. That is the feature working |
| Your changes did not stick | Save quick filter changes has to be clicked; leaving discards them |