Edit Media List Menu

Overview

A Media List is made up of Media Items and some additional meta-data like Name and Description. You work is saved as a Media List file.

Name

The Name is a short descriptive title for the Media List and will appear in the Reports. It does not have to be the same as the Media List filename.

Description

The Description is a free-form, verbose description and can include designer name, information about the production and other information you may want included in the design Report.

Tip - Note on Sort By Description: If you want to be able to sort your Media Items by position within a theatrical script (or other type of ordered production), consider prefixing each Description with values that indicate its position. For example, to sort by Act/Scene you might prefix each Description with numbers aa.ss (example Act 2 , scene 3 would be "02.03 Rain storm scene backdrop"). Then you can use the Sort By Description operation and any report generated will have the Media Items ordered by the script. Use two digits (ie 02 rather than 2) if the production numbers will exceed a single digit (ie 10 or greater).

Sort

• Sort Order 
  •   Ascending: Sort operations will sort items from lower value to higher value starting at position 1 in the Media List.
  •   Descending: Sort operations will sort items from higher value to lower value starting at position 1 in the Media List.
• By Name  - Media List is sorted by the Media Item Name field.
• By Description  - Media List is sorted by the Media Item Description field. See note above regarding Description Sorting.
• By Media Filename  - Media List is sorted by the Media Item Media Filename field.
• By Date/Time Modified  - Media List is sorted by the Last Date/Time Modified (last time an edit was made to each Media Item).

Tip - Loading a media file makes some stealth changes to the Media Item because Screen information is recorded while it is open. This means that when sorting by Date/Time Modified, a recently Loaded item will move to the top of the sort list.

Find

Find attempts to find the next occurrence of the Find Text specified in the Tools toolbar Find Text textbox (see Figure 1.). You select the Media Item Target field that will be searched.

• Find Next  - Finds next Media Item after the current selected item which contains the Find Text in its Target Field.
• Find Previous  - Finds the previous Media Item before the current selected item which contains the Find Text in its Target Field.
• Set Find Target These menu items change the search Target field. Target fields are located in the Media Item Descriptors section.
  • In Name  - Sets the Target field to the Media Item Name field .
  • In Description  - Sets the Target field to the Media Item Description field .
  • In Media Filename  - Sets the Target field to the Media Item Media Filename field . File name and type are matched but not the folder path information.
• Match Case in Find  - Toggles Match Case mode On (when checked) and Off (when unchecked). When Match Case mode is On, letter case (upper, lowercase characters) must match the Find Text case. When Off, letter case is ignored.
• Wrap Search  - Toggles Wrap Search mode On (when checked) and Off (when unchecked). With Wrap mode is On, when search reaches the end of the list and it continues from the top of the list until all items have been checked or a match is found. When Off, search stops at the end of the list for Find Next, or at the top of the list for Find Previous.

Tip - Leading and trailing blanks are not trimmed from the Find Text. So for example, if you specify "My " (with a trailing blank) for the Find Text, the search will match "My Video" but not "MyVideo".