What you can add

Brolla is built to hold all the bits and pieces you reuse in your videos, not just clips. You can bring in three kinds of asset:

• Video — common formats like MP4 and MOV, plus most files your camera or editor produces.
• Audio — MP3, WAV, M4A and other everyday sound files, handy for music beds, stings and sound effects.
• Images — your stills, logos, overlays and reference shots.

When you use the Import assets tab, you’ll see the drop zone invite you to “Drop video, audio, or image files here”. Drag a mix in at once and Brolla will sort out what each one is.

Your originals stay untouched

Whatever you add, Brolla makes a copy into your library. As the tab says, “Files are copied as-is — no re-encoding, originals untouched.” Nothing is squashed, converted or changed in quality. The files sitting in your own folders stay exactly as they were, and Brolla simply keeps a tidy copy it can organise and search.

How audio and images differ

Video clips are the main event, so they get the most features. Audio and image assets come along as “source” assets and behave a little differently. For example, because an audio file has no picture and an image has only one frame, there are no video frames to read, so automatic tag suggestions that look at moving footage don’t apply to them in the same way. You can still tag them yourself, search them, and reuse them just like any clip.