Apple Color 1.0 - Manual (Page 64)

64 Chapter 3 Using the Color Interface
Organizational Browsers and Bins
Color presents several browsers and bins for organizing shots, media, and grades which
share some common controls. All these browsers and bins are used to manage files on
your hard drive, rather then data that’s stored within the Color project file itself. As a
result, their controls are used to navigate and organize the directory structure of your
hard drive, much as you would in the Finder.
The File Browser
The browser that dominates the left half of the Setup room lets you navigate the
directory structure of your computer’s disk drives (and by extension any RAID, DAS,
and SAN volumes that are currently mounted), in order to find and import compatible
QuickTime and Still Image media files.
It’s important to bear in mind that the file browser is not a project bin in any way. The
files displayed within the file browser are not associated with your Color project in any
way unless you drag them into the Timeline manually or relink the shots of an
imported project to their associated media files on disk using the Relink Media or
Reconnect Media commands.
Note: The file browser displays only directories and media files that are compatible
with Color.
When you select a media file in the file browser, a panel appears to the right displaying
the first frame of that file along with information underneath, including:
 Shot Name: The filename
 Duration: Its total duration
 Codec: The codec used to encode that file
 Resolution: The frame size of the file, width by height
 Frame Rate: The frame rate of the file
 Timecode: The timecode value of the first frame in that file
At the bottom of this panel, an Import button appears that lets you edit the currently
selected shot into the Timeline at the current position of the playhead.
Collapsing the file browser
If you like, the file browser can be collapsed to enable the tabbed area on the right to
occupy the entire Color window.