How to disable images/video files in upper left Edit window at startup

Mark1978

Newbie Joined: Oct 15, 2015 12:49 Messages: 6 Offline

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Oct 16, 2015 08:18

New PD user here. How do I disable the 10 images and video files (like balloon.jpg, extreme sports 01.jpg, Kite Surving.wmv) that always show up in the upper left Edit window every time I start up PD14?

Hint for CyberLink designers/programmers: this is really irritating and gets in the way of MY work when I have to constantly delete YOUR images/movies. Thank you for getting rid of this annoying uselessness!

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Oct 16. 2015 08:19

CS2014

Senior Contributor Location: USA-Eastern Time Zone Joined: Sep 16, 2014 16:44 Messages: 629 Offline

Oct 16, 2015 08:40

Sorry you got irritated with this. Those videos and pictures can be 'turned off' so they do not load upon entering PD.

I don't know how to drop an mage into this response so please look at the attached image. In the 'gear' - CLICK on the gear (set user preferences - if I hover over the gear this comes up), - click on "Project" and then uncheck 'Automatically load sample clips....etc..'

CS

Filename	Pref Unload.png	Download
Description
Filesize	57 Kbytes
Downloaded:	46 time(s)

PD13 Ultimate - Build 3516, WIN 8.1, 64 Bit, 16G RAM, Intel Core i5 4460, CPU @ 3.2GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT720, Graphics Memory(total avail.)-4093MB
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Anonymous

Oct 16, 2015 09:25

Hi, Mark!

Those sample clips(JPG images and MPG clip) don't worry me at all! They may even come in useful at times for decorative purposes.

Cheers!

Neil.

stevefrench73

Newbie Joined: Jun 15, 2015 22:30 Messages: 36 Offline

Oct 16, 2015 18:49

CS2014, Thanks for the information! I too was tired of the sample clips being there every time. Though, if you open a project in progress and click "no" when asked if you want it to merge with the existing library it'll remove the sample files when adding your own. But I was still trying to figure out how to make them stop appearing there in the first place so that they don't have to be deleted every time I start a new project.

Thanks again.

stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Oct 19, 2015 14:49

Is this still a problem for you?

In Preferences, go to "Project" and uncheck "Automatically load sample " as shown in this image:


Filename	autoload_samples.png	Download
Description	Autoload Samples
Filesize	115 Kbytes
Downloaded:	46 time(s)

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