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Projects

TL;DR; The Projects page is where your uploads and finished videos live. It's organized by department and project, with a search/filter bar at the top and a row for each project. You can create a project, add an existing one, and open any project's details to see its files and history.

Opening the Projects page

Click Projects in Lupo's navigation. You'll see a table of every project you have access to, grouped by department. If your team is big, use the Select Department dropdown at the top to filter by department before you search.

Projects list page showing the department filter and the table of projects

What a project contains

A project is a container with a stable name and a few pieces of state:

  • A name — for example, "2026 Q2 Onboarding" or "SOX Compliance Refresh". Pick a name that will still make sense to someone a year from now.
  • A department it belongs to.
  • The uploaded files from any Create tool — your .pptx decks, PDFs, and Google Slides links.
  • The generated outputs — finished videos, narrated decks, transcripts.
  • A history of what's been run against those files.

Think of it as a folder that understands what's inside it.

Creating a project

If your role allows it (admin, team manager, or similar), you'll see two buttons at the top of the Projects list:

  • Create One In Lupo — creates a brand new, empty project inside the selected department. Use this when you're starting fresh and just want a place to put new uploads.
  • Add an existing project — registers an existing repository or shared location as a project inside Lupo. This is mostly used by teams that already track their source material externally and want Lupo to read from it. If that sounds like you, someone on your team probably already set it up once — copy the pattern.

Individual and explorer-tier users don't see these buttons; their uploads go into the default project.

Switching the target project when you upload

Every Create tool has a target project selector near the top of the page, just above the drop area. It defaults to your last-used project, or to the default if you've never picked one.

When you switch it, Lupo shows a confirmation:

Target project updated. Videos will be saved to selected project.

If you leave it as the default, you get:

Videos will use default no-project destination.

Get into the habit of picking the target project before you drop the file. It saves a lot of "where did that video go?" later.

Opening a project to see its contents

Click a project row in the list to open its Details page. That page shows:

  • The files inside the project.
  • The history of generation runs (what was uploaded, when, by whom, and what came out).
  • Controls to run another generation pass if you want to re-render something.

The Details page is also the place where you'd run a Video Build — see Video Builds for what that is and when to use it.

Filtering inactive projects

If you're an admin or team manager, there's a toggle in the filter bar: Show Active Projects / Show Inactive Projects. Inactive projects are hidden from the default view to keep the list clean. Flip the toggle if you're looking for something you worked on months ago and can't find.

Errors you might see

"You don't have access to that project. Using default (free trial) instead." — Someone shared a link to a project your account isn't a member of. Your upload was redirected to your default project so the work wasn't lost, but you'll need the project owner to add you.

"URL is already in use." — You tried to add an existing project whose source URL is already registered under a different project in Lupo. Either use the existing one or coordinate with the owner.

"Error 1002: Project with ID X not found." — The project was deleted or you don't have access to it. Refresh the Projects page and pick one from the list.

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