Drag-and-Drop from Finder

You can drag image or video files from Finder directly onto the media card in modelBridge — skipping the Premiere Pro import step entirely. This is useful when you want to generate from a file that is not in your current project.

How It Works

1. Open Finder and locate the file you want to use
2. Drag it onto the media card in the modelBridge panel
3. The card shows a green glow border as you hover over it
4. Drop the file — it becomes the active media for generation

The dropped file replaces whatever was previously selected from the timeline or Project Bin. Validation runs immediately, so you see whether the file meets the model’s requirements before generating.

Visual Feedback

• Green glow — valid file type hovering over the drop zone
• Red shake animation — unsupported file type dropped (wrong format for the current model)

Single-Slot Mode

For standard models (image-to-video, video-to-video, etc.), there is one drop target. Dropping a file replaces the current media selection.

Dual-Slot Mode

For interpolation models that accept a start frame and end frame, each slot has its own drop zone. Drop on the row you want — no position guessing required.

Mixed Mode

You can combine sources: drop a file from Finder into one slot and keep the timeline selection in the other. This is useful for interpolation workflows where your start frame is on the timeline but your end frame is a separate file.

Pinned Files

Dropped files are “pinned” to the media card. Background polling from the timeline or Project Bin will not replace them. Only the dismiss button (×) on the slot clears a dropped file.

This ensures your explicit action always takes priority over automatic polling.

Blocked Slots

When you dismiss a polled slot (timeline/Project Bin selection) using the × button, that slot is temporarily blocked from being re-filled by polling. This prevents it from immediately re-populating with the same clip you just dismissed. The block clears when you make a new selection or drop a new file.

Limitations

• macOS only — drag-and-drop from Finder is a macOS feature. There is no Windows equivalent at this time.
• Session-only — dropped file paths are stored in memory for the current session. They are not persisted to disk or localStorage. Closing the panel clears dropped files.
• macOS bookmark paths — .file/id= bookmark-style paths (created by certain macOS workflows) are detected and rejected with a friendly error message.
• File validation — the dropped file is checked against the model’s accepted media types. Dropping a video on an image-only model shows an error.