Media Relationships

When you're searching or browsing the contents of your media library, you may be overwhelmed by the amount of media you've amassed. How can you possibly remember how and where you've used your media? No problem. The Media Manager tool takes care of the details.

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.

  1. Right-click a media file in the Search Results pane.

  2. Choose Find Related Items from the shortcut menu, and then choose a command from the submenu:

    Command

    Description

    Used with

    Displays all media files that use the selected media.

    Previewed with

    Displays all media that has been previewed in a project containing the selected media.

    Rendered to

    Displays all media files that were created from the selected media file using the Render As command.

    Rendered from

    Displays the original media files that were used to create the selected media file if the file was created using the Render As command.

    Chopped to

    Displays all media files that were created from the selected file using the Chop to New Track command in ACID software.

    Chopped from

    Displays the original media file that was used to create the selected media file if the file was created using the Chop to New Track command in ACID software.

    Rendered track to

    Displays all media files that were created from the selected file using the Render to New Track command.

    Rendered track from

    Displays the original media files that were used to create the selected media file if the file was created using the Render to New Track command.

  3. Media files matching the selected command are displayed in the Search Results pane.

    Click the Previous Search button to return to the previous contents of the Search Results pane.