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Projects and film homes

Every film has one home folder. Projects lists them, opens each one as a film desk, and creates or registers new homes without moving anything.

One folder per film

Swiftbird keeps each film in its own film home: a folder in your production workspace that holds its planning, sources, audio, renders, editorial projects, thumbnails and final exports. A catalogue lists the films, and each film has a small manifest describing where its parts live.

Swiftbird reads these in place. It never moves, renames or rewrites your source files just to show them.

The Projects page

Projects shows every film in the catalogue, from first idea to final export. Open a film card to get its film desk, a large window with the film's own pages: Production, Thumbnails, Files and Publishing. You can resize the desk by dragging or with the arrow keys, and it remembers its size.

Browsing a film doesn't change what your Chat conversation is about. Choose Work on this film when you want the conversation to focus on it.

Create or register a film

• Create film folder makes a complete new home with empty folders for each stage of production.
• Register existing home adds a folder you already have to the catalogue.

Both show you the exact destination with Review setup first. Only the separately labelled create or register button makes the change. Setting up a film doesn't start research, agents, renders or approvals, and a new working title isn't treated as an approved one.

Films in Chat

Each conversation is scoped to either the Global workspace or one film. Type @ in the composer to pick the context. Agents get that film's location and records with every request, so you don't have to explain where things are.

Files

Files lists the film's registered locations and shows plainly when something is missing or can't be reached. Preserved snapshots of editorial projects can be downloaded exactly as recorded. Opening a file captures that version, so you can compare it later.

Research, Assets and References

These three pages serve every film:

• Research — review ideas and pick the next story. Findings appear as cards in Chat, with their sources and their gaps shown. You can shortlist, dismiss or approve a title; an approved title can then be given a date in Calendar. Approving a title is not a production approval, and reading a source isn't a fact check.
• Assets — keep asset requests in one place: a brief, the shot it's for, references, a preferred tool, priority, date, progress and review notes. Work on this in Chat hands a request to your agent with the right film selected. Your agent fetches or generates assets with the tools it already has; results come back for you to approve or send back with notes.
• References — search the reference notes and studies your productions share, with exact passages and timestamps.

Last reviewed 28 September 2026 against the Swiftbird prototype of 27 September 2026. Still stuck? Contact support.