| Level | What it is |
|---|---|
| Workspace | Your organization - the top level that holds your team and all your projects |
| Project | A container for one body of work, like a production or a campaign |
| Directory | A folder inside a project, for organizing files (folders can nest) |
| Asset | A single file - video, image, audio, or document |
| Collection | A curated group of files that live anywhere in the project |
Workspaces
A workspace is your organization’s home in Aspect. Everyone on your team belongs to a workspace, and everything you store lives inside it. Who can see and do what is controlled at the workspace and project level - see people and permissions.Projects
Projects are the main way to divide up your work. A documentary, an ad campaign, a client engagement - each gets its own project. Projects hold your folders and files, and access can be granted project by project, so people only see what’s relevant to them.Directories
Directories are folders. They work the way folders do on your computer: they live inside a project, they can contain files and other folders, and you can nest them as deep as you need. Use them to keep raw footage, selects, and deliverables apart.Assets
An asset is a single file - a video, image, audio recording, or document. When you upload a file, it becomes an asset, and Aspect’s AI automatically gets to work on it in the background: transcribing speech, understanding what’s on screen, and preparing it for instant playback. There’s nothing to configure or start - once it’s done, the file is searchable and ready to review. See How AI indexing works for the full picture, uploading for how files get in, and metadata for the details Aspect tracks about each one.Version stacks
When you have multiple versions of the same file (a rough cut, a revision, a final), Aspect can stack them together as one asset. You always see the latest version by default, but every earlier version stays a click away. No morefinal_v3_FINAL.mp4 scattered across folders.
Collections
A collection is a curated grouping of files and folders. Adding something to a collection doesn’t move it - the original stays exactly where it is, and the collection just points to it. The same file can be in many collections at once. Collections are great for pulling together the best takes from across a project, building a reel of selects, or gathering everything a client needs to review in one place. See the collections guide.Where to go next
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