The media library

All the media of a story live in the same place: the Media tab. You import your files once, then place them on as many sequences as you like.

The Media tab: the gallery on the left, the details of the selected media on the right.

Four families of media

Every imported file belongs to a family, deduced from its format. The family decides which formats are accepted and the maximum size:

Family	Accepted formats	Maximum size
Images	JPEG, PNG, WebP	2 MB
Sounds	MP3, WAV, OGG, WebM	5 MB
Videos	MP4, WebM, MOV, AVI, MKV	10 MB
Icons	SVG	300 KB

Importing

The Add button opens the available sources.

The Add menu: where your media come from.

• From your device: your own files. You can also drag them straight into the gallery.
• By type: an online search at a partner service, different for each family (Unsplash for images, FreeSound for sounds, Pexels for videos, The Noun Project for icons).

The online search, here on Unsplash.

Search in English

The partner libraries index everything in English, and the editor says so plainly: “Searches are performed on English databases. Keywords should be in English.” Translate your keyword before you search, so forest and castle rather than their equivalent in your own language.

Sounds get one more source: recording from the microphone, straight in the browser. See Sound.

A refused file is never dropped silently: the import window names it and says why, format not accepted or size over the limit.

The storage meter, expanded: what each family weighs.

Space is counted

Every story gets a storage allowance, all families together: 15 MB on a free account, 50 MB from any paid plan. The meter next to the Add button shows where you stand, and expands to detail the weight of each family. Images are made lighter on import, which helps you stay inside.

In a workshop, the teacher’s plan is the one that counts

A student has no subscription of their own. Their work therefore follows the plan that covers the workshop they are working in: in a subscribed school, they get the school’s 50 MB, not the 15 MB of the free plan.

Media found online count too

A media taken from Unsplash, FreeSound, Pexels or The Noun Project is not uploaded, but it is stored as a reference and weighs on the story’s quota. When the external service does not report the file size, Moiki applies a floor: 800 KB for an image, 1 MB for a sound, 3 MB for a video, 50 KB for an icon. The storage summary also separates the total from the share coming from external services.

Reusing

A media is imported only once. The same sound or the same image can then serve on as many sequences as you want, without using any extra storage. The detail pane of each media shows how many places use it, and lets you jump to them. The details also give its characteristics (weight, dimensions, duration, format) and its source: Uploaded for a file that came from your device, the name of the service for a media found online.

Deleting a media removes it everywhere

Deleting does more than empty the library. The media disappears from every sequence that uses it (image, background image, background video, ambient sound, sound effect), from item icons, from achievement icons, and from the story Cover if it was using it. The usages listed on the detail pane do not block the deletion, so take a look before you confirm.

Placing a media on a sequence

The MEDIA block, under the text of the editing panel, offers an Add media button. Its menu draws on the library. Its last entry, Create a new media, uploads a file without leaving the sequence: it joins the library and is placed on the sequence right away.

The Add media menu, in the panel of a sequence.

A sequence offers five slots, each one described on the page of its family:

• an image, shown with the text,
• a background image, behind the text,
• a background video, in place of a background image,
• an ambient sound, playing continuously,
• a sound effect, played on arrival at the sequence.

The menu only shows the slots that are actually available. A slot disappears once it is filled, and only appears if the library holds at least one media of the matching family. The ambient sound is the exception: it stays on offer even with no sound at all, so that you can cut the ambience that is playing. See Sound.

Note

A few sequence types, purely structural, accept no media at all. In a writing workshop, the teacher can also restrict which media are allowed. See A writing workshop.

The files attached to a workshop

The Resources of a Moiki EDU workshop (PDF or office documents, but also images, sounds and videos) do not go through this library. They are attached to the workshop itself. See Create and fill in a workshop.