The library

The library is the public catalogue of Clipwright’s components. Each has its own page with its frame, what it does, its parameters and the line that uses it. Your agent searches the library by name and idea, and puts what it needs in the film.

What a library page shows

• The component’s title, kind and a sentence on what it does.
• Its parameters: type, range, unit and default.
• The line a film writes to use it.
• How many films have used it, and “new” in its first week.
• Its sources, for data.

It shows no code or files, and never who or which film a technique came from: the library lists names, kinds, parameters and frames only.

Where the components come from

Nothing is submitted, and there is no queue. What your agent builds syncs to your account as you work. Clipwright’s curator looks across the films made on it for techniques that keep being useful, and rebuilds the good ones as general components of Clipwright’s own, which then join a release and appear in the library.

Reusable rendering components generated in your sessions (shaders, procedural geometry, camera paths, sound generators) may be generalised into Clipwright’s shared component library. Your films, premises, scripts, voice, uploads and channel identity stay private to your account. The terms set this out as a licence that comes with building in Clipwright.

What stays yours

• Your films, premises and scripts.
• Your voice recordings and everything you upload.
• Your channel identity: its look, fonts, colours and words.
• Your own elements, which keep working in your films as they are; one of yours with the same name as a library component wins in your films.

If you delete your account, your films and files are deleted. Components already in the library stay, because the licence covers them; they carry nothing that identifies you or your films.

A change to a library component is a new release; films keep the release they started with, so an update never changes a film in progress.

The rules

Components follow the acceptable use rules: nothing that imitates a real person or organisation, nothing taken from other films, and credit for every table of data. The curator can retire a component from search; films that already use it keep it.

Using the library

You rarely browse it yourself. Ask your agent to build the film and it looks for what it needs. If you want a particular element, name it: your agent finds it by name.