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Chapter 6: Managing assets

Customizing the Project panel

For information about the Project Panel, see this series of 4 video tutorials by Andrew Devis on the Creative Cow website:

•Project Panel: Organizing, Automating and Searching

•Project Panel: New Items and Templates

•Project Panel: Preferences and Bin Structures

•Project Panel: Importing Footage

Change Project panel views

After you obtain an asset, its name appears in the Project panel. The Project panel lists detailed information about each asset in your project. You can view and sort assets in either List view or Icon view. List view displays additional information about each asset. You can customize the information it displays to meet the needs of your project.

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Project panel views

A. List view B. Icon view

•To change from one view to another, click the List View button or the Icon View button at the bottom of the panel. Alternatively, select View > List or View > Icon from the Project panel menu.

•To arrange items in Icon view, drag an item to any square. As you drag, a vertical bar indicates where the item is going. If you drag an item to a bin, the item goes inside the bin.

You can use Icon view for story boarding and then use the Automate To Sequence feature to move the storyboard into a sequence.

•To sort items in List view, click the column heading by which you want to sort the items. If bins are expanded, items sort from the top level and down the Project panel hierarchy. To reverse the sort order, click the column heading again.

•To hide or show the thumbnail viewer and clip information, choose View > Preview Area from the Project panel menu.

•To hide or set the size of thumbnails, choose Thumbnails from the Project panel menu.

Last updated 1/16/2012