The Library Settings in your Limecraft workspace provide useful tools to organise and customise how your media material is structured, displayed, and managed. These settings help streamline navigation, improve browsing, and enable basic functionality controls tailored to your team’s workflow.

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Before You Begin

Library Settings can only be accessed by users with at least workspace admin permissions. 


Accessing Library Settings

To access the Library Settings, go to the Workspace Settings and select Library Settings from the left-hand navigation panel.


Limecraft screenshot showing how to access the Library settings in the workspace settings.

Clip Name Prefix in Library

When metadata episode, scene, shot, and take are available for your clips, enabling the Clip Name Prefix setting automatically adds these metadata elements as a prefix to your clip names in the library.

Limecraft screenshot showing how clips look like when using automatic prefix based on episode scene shot take metadata.


This feature makes it much easier to browse and quickly locate precisely the material you need, especially in large projects with complex footage.

Grouping Presets

Grouping presets allow you to create and save multiple ways to organise your clips based on their metadata. You can switch between different grouping views to quickly filter and structure your material according to various criteria.

Limecraft GIF showing how to switch between different grouping presets to organise material for optimal overview for each purpose.


This is particularly useful for managing large catalogues, helping you zoom in on specific subsets of material with ease.


Tip: For more detailed information, see our dedicated article on Grouping Presets

Default Sort Order

You can set a default sort order for your entire library, which will be applied automatically both in the main library view and within collections when using grouping presets.

Limecraft screenshot showing how to set a default sort order to optimise a workspace according to its use.

While this default helps maintain consistency, individual team members can always manually adjust the sorting order as needed for specific tasks.

Drag & Drop Settings

Manage how dragging and dropping files between collections behaves by default:


  • Copy mode: Files remain in both the source and target collections.
  • Move mode: Files are removed from the source collection and only exist in the target collection.


This setting lets you control whether files should be duplicated across collections or moved exclusively, according to your team’s workflow preferences.

Limecraft screenshot showing how to work with the default drag & drop settings.


Working with Categories

Within library settings, you can manage categories that help further organise your collections:


  • Add or remove categories.
  • Change the order in which categories appear.
  • Set a default category for ingesting material via Limecraft Edge.


You also have the option to define a default sorting order for collections within each category, choosing between:


  • Alphabetical order
  • Oldest to newest

Limecraft screenshot showing the settings for managing categories.


This flexibility helps keep your workspace organised and aligned with your team’s preferred structure.