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Reference library

Choose the library you want to load when you click the Switch to Media Reference Library button. For more information about using reference libraries, click here.

Search results limit

The maximum number of media files you'd like to have returned in the results of your searches.

Increasing the Search Results Limit setting increases the amount of time required to search a library and can significantly decrease performance if set excessively high.

Double-click in Search Results pane adds media to project

Select this check box if you want to add files to the current project by double-clicking a file in the Search Results pane.

Shut down database service on exit

Select this check box if you want to stop the database service when you close ACID or Vegas software.

Stopping the service can conserve system resources when you aren't using any applications that use the Media Manager tool. However, the application will take longer to start when the check box is selected.

Add tags and custom properties from files

Select this check box if you want to add tags and custom columns saved in the media files to your library when you add media.

For more information about tagging media, click here. For information about adding custom columns to the Search Results pane, click here.

Use file and folder names to apply tags automatically

Select this check box if you want to automatically tag files based on the file path when you add media to your library.

For example, if the tags Drums and Hi-Hats exist in your tag tree, a loop saved in the d:\loops\drums\hi-hats\ folder would have the tags Drums and Hi-Hats applied when it is added to the library. The path is split at each backslash, and each portion of the path that starts with a tag name will cause that tag to be applied.

This option does not create new tags. The file path is compared to tag names already in the tag tree.

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Description

Delete

Click to remove information about media relationships from your database.

Media relationships are maintained only when the Save media-usage relationships in active media library check box is selected on the General tab of the ACID or Vegas Preferences dialog.

Update

Click to scan the media files in your library and compare them to the files on disk to look for updated media properties.

If the values stored in the media library and the files on disk do not match, the Media Manager will prompt you to choose the values you want to keep.

Select the Ignore file dates when checking for changes check box if you want to scan all files. When the check box is cleared, only files that have been modified since the last update will be scanned.

You can also use the Update button to check your media library for offline files.

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Description

Thumbnail Caching

Choose a setting from the drop-down list to indicate how you want to store thumbnails for image and video files.

Common thumbnail folder

Displays the path to the common thumbnail folder. Click Browse to choose a different folder.

Limit common folder size to

Select this check box and type a value in the box if you want to limit the amount of storage used for thumbnail files.

Click the Empty button to clear all thumbnails from the common location.

Enable thumbnail zoom

Select this check box if you want to zoom thumbnails when you select them in the Search Results pane.

Delay before zooming thumbnails

Type a value in the box to set the delay before a thumbnail image is zoomed when you select it.

Smooth thumbnail zooming

Select this check box if you want to animate thumbnail zooming.