Thumbnail View VS. List View

The Assets Tab is your organizational hub, and has been designed to help you streamline your workflows and enhance your collaboration experience. 

The middle column of the Assets Tab allows you to view and work with all of your assets and folders, and is flexible to meet your needs and the needs of your team.

There are three different views within this column which are customizable by you:

• Large Thumbnail View (aka Large Tile)
• Small Thumbnail View (aka Small Tile)
• List View

You can switch between these views by clicking the icon in the upper right hand corner of the middle column:

The Large Thumbnail view is on by default, so clicking this button once will switch you to Small Thumbnail, and clicking again will bring you to List View.

Large Thumbnail and Small Thumbnail are essentially the same, minus the obvious difference of thumbnail size.

Below, we'll look at Thumbnail View VS. List View to help you understand the nuances and differences.

Thumbnail View

When in Thumbnail View, each asset displays a thumbnail for that asset, as well as three pieces of information about it, pulled from that assets metadata. This thumbnail, plus these three fields combined, are what we refer to as an Asset Card.

In the asset card below, the asset name, upload date, and clip duration are all displayed below the thumbnail:

These fields are customizable for each user, and can be set by accessing your Asset View options in your personal settings:

The Thumbnail Views will always display folders (or subfolders) at the top, and then all of your assets will be displayed below these folders in batches. Batches allow you to re-organize your assets based on a variety of metadata points, and your assets will be displayed in these batches based on the settings you've selected.

For more For more on batches and the assets tab organization, have a look at our Batches Tutorial Video, our Metadata and Organization, and our Assets Tab Overview help docs.

When in thumbnail mode, you also have the ability to preview the assets within that folder without playing, simply by dragging your cursor across the bottom half of the Asset Card thumbnail:

List View

If you're looking to view your assets in a more text-only environment, List View allows you to do so, and has two main features to be aware of,.

Firstly, list view ignores batches altogether, and simply puts all assets within the folder in the same list. This can be helpful if you're working with a large number of files and aren't sure which batch it lives in, and want to see all assets to make things easier to locate.

Secondly, you have the ability in list view to sort all assets in that folder by any column you'd like, and the columns match the metadata fields associated with those assets.

Essentially, this allows you to do what you can normally do with batches (IE, group all clips together based on scene, episode, camera, shoot day, etc), but without re-arranging via the batches functionality.

To add or remove columns in list view, just click the pencil icon in the upper right hand corner, and then select/de-select the metadata columns that are most important to you:

A few additional notes about list view:

• You may need to scroll to the right to see the pencil depending on your screen size and number of columns selected:

• Once you've selected your columns, you can drag and drop them to rearrange them in any left-to-right order you'd like.
• You can then sort by any column by clicking the column header:

• "Name" and "Created Date" will always be shown on the left hand side as fixed columns. If you'd like to sort by this info, just add "Created Date" and/or "Original Name" as sortable columns from the selection, and then click their column header:

• In addition to assets, any sub-folders found within the folder will also show up in the list, so it's important to note the "kind" column which will show you if this is a folder or an asset, and what type of asset it is:

• Given that no thumbnails need to be rendered for display, you may experience quicker loading times in list view when re-sorting assets or clicking through pages