User Manual

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Media Manager
The lower tab on the left-side of the Main Interface opens and closes
the Media Manager panel. The Media Manager is a convenient
organization space for all of your multimedia files. You can see your
files in thumbnail format and you can organize them into groups.
Dragging and dropping one of these thumbnails into the Video
Window lets you view it; dragging one to the Video Editor or Still
Image Editor lets you apply specialized options.
The Media Manager is divided into three main groups: Albums,
Projects, and Effects. Albums contains groups of individual files.
Projects contains groups of video editing projects. Effects contains
transitions and titles for video editing.
Just above the tabs are six shortcut buttons for common file actions:
Delete, Cut, Copy, Paste, Sort, and Properties.
At the bottom of the Media Manager is a series of input/output
buttons: Import, Convert, Webcast, Slide Show, E-mail, DVDit!.
A convenient feature of the Media Manager is that it is both
re-sizable and floatable. Dragging from the bottom left-hand corner
stretches it to reveal more clips or space for more clips; clicking on
the top left-hand button detaches the Media Manager panel from
the Main Interface to let you use your desktop space more
efficiently. Clicking it again reattaches it to the Main Interface.