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Organizing media in the Media Library

Organizing media in the Media Library - Smoke Tutorial

From the course: Smoke 2015 Essential Training

Organizing media in the Media Library

Now that we have a lot of media inside of our project, let's take a moment to organize it before we start working on it. I'm a big fan of keeping my media organized simply so I know where to find things. But there are also some ways you can use your media organization inside of Smoke to help with things like project performance as well. We have two basic containers for organizing clips inside of our media library. We have clip libraries which are these symbols that look like little book shelves. And we have folders. One basic difference between clip libraries and folders is that folders can be placed inside of clip libraries. But one clip library cannot be placed inside of another clip library. Libraries are sort of your root level organization and can have folders inside of them. There is also another difference between a clip library and a folder and this is where project performance comes in. You'll notice that if I right-click on a clip library, I have the option to close that…

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