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The MediaBay
The Define Locations section
Whenever you expand your computer system (for example, by adding new hard disks
or an external volume containing media files you want to work with), you should make
it a habit to save the new volumes as Locations or add them to your existing Locations.
Afterwards, you can hide the Define Locations section from view. That way, the
MediaBay occupies less screen space and you can concentrate on the important
thing: the Results list.
For this list, you can specify which file types are displayed, see “Filtering according to
media type” on page 399. If there are still too many files to choose from, you can
narrow down the results using a text search function, see “Performing a text search”
on page 401. This is often all it needs to display what you want, allowing you to
proceed by previewing the files before inserting them into your project (see
“Previewing files” on page 403). However, if you need very complex and detailed
filtering, this is also possible using either attribute or logical filtering, see “The Filters
section” on page 406. For filtering or searches, the use of attributes is recommended:
By specifying specific attribute values for your files (categorizing them as production
sound, foley, special effects, etc.), you can considerably speed up the browsing
process, see
“The Attribute Inspector” on page 410.
Finally, the files can be easily inserted into the project, by using drag & drop, by
double-clicking or using the context menu options, see
“Inserting the files into the
project” on page 402.
The Define Locations section
When you open the MediaBay for the first time, a scan for media files is performed on
your system. You specify which folders or directories you want to be included in the
scan by activating/deactivating the checkboxes for the folders in the Define Locations
section. Depending on the amount of media files on your computer, the scan may take
a while. All files that are found in the specified folders are shown in the Results list.
• To include a folder in the scan, activate its checkbox.
• To exclude a folder from the scan, deactivate its checkbox.
• To restrict the search to individual subfolders, activate/deactivate their
checkboxes.