The Library Browser
This is the area in which the Library displays its media assets – the videos, photos, audio, projects, collections and ‘content’ that are available for you to use in your movie and disc projects. The items are displayed either as a list of text records or as a grid of icons. Visual asset types use thumbnail images for their icons; other types use graphic symbols.
The Library would not be much help if the Browser displayed all its assets at once. It therefore has several controls that help you screen out items that aren’t relevant to your purpose. See “Choosing what to display” below for details.
Controlling the Browser display
A group of controls in the Library’s footer bar provides general functions for managing the way assets are presented in the Browser.
The scenes view button activates a mode in which the Browser displays a separate icon or text record for each scene in the video file. (As explained under Video scene detection, a scene in the most general sense is just any portion of a video file.)For more information about video scenes in the Library see Video scene detection.
The thumbnails view button switches to viewing assets as thumbnails rather than as text lines. A pop-up checklist associated with the button lets you select the readouts and controls that will appear beside thumbnails in the Browser.
The details view button switches to the alternative viewing mode, in which each asset appears as a text listing. The pop-up checklist with this button selects the text fields to be displayed.
The zoom slider lets you magnify the thumbnails to get a closer look, or pull back for a wider view. This slider is always found at the right-hand end of the footer bar.