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The SORT Room
How the SORT Room Works
The SORT Room is where you'll sort and
select from the content you imported in
the IN Room. You'll also sequence digital
photos, pictures, business slides, or video
clips for use in your show.
Whereas the IN Room is where you do
your visual brainstorming, the SORT
Room is where you'll refine your ideas and
implement the design of your show.
The SORT Room has two main purposes.
First, to help you organize all the content
you imported into the IN Room, and
second, to let you select content and
create a show sequence.
Sorting Content
The Sort control helps you arrange all the
thumbnails on your desktop, based on a
variety of user-selectable sort criteria.
Using the Sort control is one way to help
you organize content, the other is the
visual organizing you can do using
thumbnails. By arranging thumbnails into
piles, and then laying them out around
the desktop, you can see how your show
will take shape.
The sorting process works just like it
would in the real world. If someone gave
you a huge stack of photos and said "make
me a show," you'd probably drop all the
photos onto a desk and start pulling out
pictures that were somehow related.
Then, you'd group the photos together on
different parts of the desk.
This is the same process that's mimicked
in the SORT Room. You place a bunch of
photos (in this case thumbnails) onto a
desktop, then pull out pictures that are
related and group them together into
piles.
Once you have all your piles set up, you
can start pulling out specific pictures or
photos to create the pile that will
eventually make up your show.
Selecting Content
The other purpose of the SORT Room is
to add content to your show. The Select
control is designed to help you
accomplish this task.
The Sequencer gives you a representation
of all the frames in your show. The Select
control's Sequence cursor lets you add
files on your desktop to the Sequencer.
The Sequence cursor lets you visually
order all the frames in the show. You
determine the sequence of your show by
the order in which you click thumbnails.
As you click each thumbnail, it's added to
the show.
You can also use the Sequence Floatoid,
which appears when you highlight
thumbnails on the desktop, to load them
into the Sequencer.
It is recommended that you select
thumbnails into the Sequencer in proper
order when first adding them. You can,
however, use click-and-drag editing to
correct show sequencing later.
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