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Chapter 8 Administration
Working with the Project Window
The Project window behaves like any other Windows window with one exception: You can never close it
because at least one Project must always be open. You can, however:
 Minimize it. It then becomes an icon in the taskbar, allowing you to clear a space on your desk-
top;
 Maximize it. The window then fills all the space available on the desktop (depending on the desk-
top layout selected; see “Desktop Views” on page 46);
 Resize it by dragging the window border.
 Drag the vertical bar between the content and Rack/folder areas. If more contents exist than can
be displayed at one time, a vertical and/or horizontal scrollbar appears.
What Are Rack Folders and Racks?
Rack Folders and Racks provide you with a clearer overview, particularly in the case of extensive Projects.
Take another look at the Project window shown at the beginning of this section.
 Racks are combined in Rack Folders, which cannot themselves contain individual objects.
 Objects are combined in Racks.
The sample Project (“Project window (Sample)” on page 223) contains the “Audio” Folder in which the
“Au d i o 1 ” a n d “Au d i o 2 ” Racks have been stored.
With some features, the “active” (or current, selected, clicked...) Rack is of importance. Newly created
clips, for instance, may be placed in the active Rack. It is, however, possible to have more than one active
Rack.
In such a case, the active Rack is the one selected and visible (tab in front) in the Project window. If you
use the Project Browser, the selected and visible Rack in the Browser is “active”. If both Project window
and Project Browser are visible with selected Racks, the Rack in the Project window has priority.
If the system can not access an active Rack, a new one will be created under the name Imported Media
Files.
See also “The Project Browser” on page 230.