Isn't there a way to create folders in the media room?

Charlie23

Newbie Location: Orlando, FL Joined: Nov 18, 2011 13:22 Messages: 9 Offline

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Jan 15, 2012 21:28

I'm now working on my first big project with travel pics and videos. the editing part of it is going great, but I have about 140 thumbnails in the media room so far for about 25 minutes of project and it's getting hard to manage everything in the media room. I thought that when you imported a media folder it would import that folder with it's content but it just opens everything individually in the media room. I've looked to create folders after importing but I don't see that option. I'm still new to this so maybe I'm missing something. I thought the "sort by date" option in managing the media room would help but I've found that when you add motion to an image for instance that it creates a separate .png file which has a later date. Plus I've found that when you create a slideshow of imported images and use that created video file, the original images are not marked with the green "used" check. I just imported 3 more video files and had to hunt them down in the middle of the media room to find them. It would be really nice to put everything you've already used into a folder.

How do ya'll manage your content for large projects? Windows 7 Pro 64 bit 16 GB RAM
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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jan 15, 2012 21:37

Use the Explorer view and create folders if you wish to help organize.

Jeff


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James1

Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline

Jan 15, 2012 21:43

Hi,
What I do is create a folder (on external USB drive) that the name corresponds to my project, then import the video as required, if I have more than one source of videos I create a sub folder for each. After each editing session I pack the files into a Packed folder (within the corresponding folder). May sound complicated but in the long run I find it efficient.
Jim
P.S I just recently done a cruise video with videos from 3 sources and Photo's and made compiling the final project easy.
p.s.s When I had the whole project finished it was too large for one DL DVD so I broke it into a 2 DVD set.

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ganesha86

Member Joined: Jan 16, 2012 00:54 Messages: 106 Offline

Jan 16, 2012 01:02

Hi,

Check the following information http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/20424.page

Hope this information helps you.

PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Jan 16, 2012 07:29

I think you have to do it, see photo


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Charlie23

Newbie Location: Orlando, FL Joined: Nov 18, 2011 13:22 Messages: 9 Offline

Jan 16, 2012 10:57

Thanks guys! That's exactly the info I was looking for...BTW on the same subject I've tried using the "search" in this forum for things like "media room folders, content folders" etc...I get 0 returns...seems like the search function isn't working!? Windows 7 Pro 64 bit 16 GB RAM
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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jan 16, 2012 11:02

Search has not worked correctly for months. No support from admins to remedy issue.

Jeff