Selection, Move & Bulk Actions

Once your gallery has assets, you'll select, move, and batch-operate on them constantly. Here's every interaction path.

Part of: Asset Library (Create)

Selecting assets

Single click

Click an asset card to focus it (preview panel) or add it to the selection set depending on context. When the selection bar is active, clicks toggle selection.

Multi-select

Marquee modifiers:

• Default drag — replace current selection
• Shift / Cmd / Ctrl + drag — add to selection
• Alt + drag — subtract from selection

Select all visible

When at least one asset is selected, the selection bar shows Select All Visible to grab everything currently loaded in the filtered grid. Click again (Clear Selection) to undo.

Status text looks like 1 selected · 37/37 shown (counts update as you select and filter) — plus scanning… when filters are still paginating.

Selection bar actions

When assets are selected, the filter toolbar is replaced by the selection bar:

Move assets

Option 1 — Drag to folder tree

Drag selected assets onto any folder in the Project sidebar. Valid targets highlight with a pink ring. Fastest for moves within the same project.

Option 2 — Move modal

Click Move in the selection bar (or Move This Asset on a single asset):

1. Title: Move Assets — Select destination folder for N asset(s)
2. Search: Search destination folders
3. Filter tabs: All · personal folders · shared folders
4. Browse sections: Current Project, Other Projects, Shared With Me
5. Click Move to confirm

While moving: Moving X/Y... progress on the confirm button.

Single-asset actions (preview panel)

On mobile, the sheet header offers Use In Generator to send the asset to reference slots.

Add to storyboard

Add To Storyboard from the selection bar sends your selected images/videos into a storyboard as frames. Ani can also run Add selected assets to storyboard as a confirmed action.

After adding, switch to Storyboard in the pipeline toolbar to arrange frames — see The Production Pipeline.

Delete assets

Delete from the selection bar or Remove Generation on a single asset opens a confirmation step. Deleted generations cannot be recovered from the gallery (though project history may retain metadata depending on your workspace).

Organise with Ani

Ask Ani to organise assets into folders — it can propose folder names and move your current selection by scene, character, or usage. You confirm before anything moves.

Keyboard shortcuts (preview)

Next in this series

• The Generator
• Project Sidebar & Folders
• Asset Library (Create)