Add more video and audio files to a project whenever you need them. You decide file by file which ones to sync and which ones to analyze.

In the timeline, click the + button at the top of the [Project] panel. It gives you:

You can also drag files straight into the [Project] panel from your computer.

Nothing is analyzed automatically, but Selects asks right away. As soon as you add footage, [Analyze media for edit] opens with the files you just added checked. Other files in the project that still need analysis are listed unchecked. Uncheck anything you want to leave for later and click [Analyze], or click [Cancel] to skip it for now.

Files you skip sit at rest until you say otherwise. Hover a file and an [Analyze] button appears, so you decide what is worth the credits.

This matters because an unanalyzed file can still be useful. You can place it on the timeline by hand and sort it into folders straight away, without spending anything.

Selects also checks whether you already analyzed the same file in another project. When it finds a match, the file comes in already analyzed, so there is nothing to analyze and no credits are used.

While a file is analyzing, hovering it shows a cancel button instead. Clicking it stops the analysis right away, with no confirmation, and puts the file back to where it was so you can analyze it again later.

To analyze several files at once, select them in the [Project] panel, right-click, and choose [Analyze (number) files]. The count includes only files that still need analysis, so files you already analyzed are skipped. Selects shows the estimated credits and your remaining balance before it starts.

Files you add later are not stuck on their own. Select the ones that belong together, right-click, and choose [Sync]. Selects places them on a new synced timeline, sorted onto tracks by camera, and opens it. To line them up, click [Sync clips]. To sync only some clips, select clips on at least two tracks, right-click, and choose [Sync selected clips]. Sync tools opens and syncs just those clips.

To put a file into a synced timeline you already have, open that synced timeline first. Then select the file, right-click, and choose [Add to (timeline name)].

Learn more in Sync your files.

An unanalyzed file has no transcript, no topics, and no speakers. Chat can move it into a folder, and that is all.

It will not:

If you want chat to do anything more than file it away, analyze it. You can do that at any point, including long after you added it.

When a file fails to analyze, a button at the bottom of the project panel counts the files still waiting for analysis. If all of them failed, it reads [Re-analyze (number) clips]. If some were never analyzed, it reads [Analyze (number) clips] and includes those too. Click it, and Selects shows the estimated credits and your remaining balance before it starts.

An analysis that fails costs you nothing. Re-analyzing is a fresh attempt, so it uses credits like any other analysis, and again you are only charged if it succeeds.

To re-analyze a file that is already analyzed, select it in the [Project] panel, right-click, and choose [Re-analyze (number) files]. [Re-analyze media] opens with the estimated credits and a reminder that re-analysis replaces each file's transcript, including any edits you made to it. Click [Re-analyze] to start.

Re-analyzing uses credits like any other analysis. If you cancel it or it fails, the file keeps its previous analysis.

Yes. Select the files you want, right-click, and choose [Sync], or add them to a synced timeline you already have. You can do this at any point, not only when the project is created.

No, the order does not matter. Analysis runs on the individual files, and a synced timeline picks up the results of the files inside it. A file that is already analyzed is not charged again unless you choose to re-analyze it.

No, not unless you ask for it. When you analyze several files at once, already-analyzed files are excluded from the estimate and are not charged again. A file you already analyzed in another project usually comes in analyzed, at no charge. You only pay again if you choose [Re-analyze (number) files], which runs a fresh analysis.

Yes, in almost any project, however old it is. There is nothing to migrate. The exception is an older project that still contains a topic stringout from an earlier version of Selects. It does not offer [Media], [Synced timeline], or [Import synced timeline] in the + menu, and files cannot be dragged into it. Learn more in What changed in Selects on September 9th, 2026.

Yes. Analysis runs in the background, and you can leave the page while it works. You can also start analyzing newly added files while another analysis is still running.