media manager : what does it exactly do?

[Peter Wright]

I don’t use it myself Barend, but it could be very useful if you have lots of “library” clips that you want access to any time, including stock footage, background loops, sound effects, music loops etc.

One thing it does is allow you to add as many tags as you wanht to each clip, so you can create your own cross-references – maybe you have a street scene which you could allocate tags such as “street”, “taxis”, “traffic”, Manhattan”, “skyscrapers” etc so you could find it via any of these search terms.

I tend to shoot separate footage for each project, and keep it carefully organised in folders for each project, so Explorer does the job for me.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Graham Bernard]

Vegas Explorer doesn’t give you a thumbnail of your video – MM does. Superb aide memoir for the . . what’s the word? . . “memory-challenged” amongst us!

Vegas Explorer doesn’t give you a thumbnail of your graphics – MM does. I can select graphics of similar hue OR range of colour and emotion.

Vegas Explorer doesn’t allow you to scrub an Event – MM does. This is great, as you don’t have to have the clip within Trimmer or place it on your timeline to audition what might be within the Event.

Vegas Explorer doesn’t allow you to do wild card searches and retain those searches – MM does. Again if you want to “repeat” a search with the parameters you had executed, then MM can do this.

So, I can visually and listen to clips/events/files and collect these as items/media for a project and THEN save those 10 -> 20 -> 100 -> 1000 items for a project or section or whatever and save THAT search as a TAGGED project. OR as Peter says, you could have Tagged all the separate events in a way that means something to you.

OK – Say for example I HAD last year a bunch of stills/videos/graphics that are “Fall” related .. a lot of Autumnal “Grazie-Media-stock” .. and I’m wanting some footage or graphics THIS year to make a background/DVD menu/evidence of what FALL means in the UK or whatever .. MM for me, can give me this ease and flexibility. Maybe I want more blue skies and less leaves .. or more leaves and less blue skies? MM with the thumbnails and scrubbing ability of it is clip viewing can allow me to audition that event!

There is much more that MM is capable of .. it is as broad as you wish to make your “Strokes” on the canvass.

MM for me – a messy editor – is a total boon, and has raised my game to another level. . .. All I need is for SONY to get it to work for ME in Vegas6c! Since I updated to 6c Media Manager has gone AWOL … however it still works in ACID Pro5?!?

I really miss it now . ..

Grazie

[Wayne Starick]

Hi Grazie,

I presume that when you say Vegas Explorer you mean Windows Explorer. :o)

Wayne Starick
If there is no Internet in heaven – I am not going!

[Edward Troxel]

Actually, I’m sure he means the Explorer window in Vegas. That’s what I use most times but Media Manager does have the advantages he mentioned. You cannot scrub the footage in the Vegas Explorer window. You CAN play it but only to preview it. If I want to scrub it, I typically add it to the trimmer or timeline instead.

Edward Troxel

[Graham Bernard]

No, I do mean Vegas’s version of Explorer.

Using Windows explorer you at least get thumbnails – you DON’T get the same with the Vegas’s flavour – see? Why SONY/Sonic still persists in this I really don’t know.

. .and yes I do know the difference . .LOL!

G

[Barend Jasper]

Thanks everyone, for your feedback. That was extremely enlightening.

Barend Jasper