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To clear (unassign) a media reference:
• Select the media references you want to clear.
• Choose Edit > Clear to clear the references from the Media Window. Or,
control-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) the media reference to
choose “Clear” from a pop-up menu.
• After a reference is cleared, its title will read “<Unassigned>”. Attempting to
play a media reference that has been unassigned has no effect – the media
simply doesn’t play.
To hide the media references within a bin:
• Click on the downward pointing arrow to the left of the bin’s title. The items
within the bin will be hidden.
To show the media references within a bin:
• Click on the sideways pointing arrow to the left of the bin’s title. The items
within the bin will be shown.
To reorder media references within a bin, or to move them to a different
bin:
• Select the media references you want to move. You should only select media
references of the same type (i.e., only movies, only audio files, etc.)
• Click a second time on one of the selected items and drag the media
references. As you do, an insertion point will appear between pairs of existing
media references or below an existing bin. This let’s you know where the
media references will be inserted when you release the mouse.
• Release the mouse button when the insertion point indicates the desired
position of the media references. When you do, they will be moved to that
position.
QuickTime movies and the High Quality Flag
Since version 1.1, Isadora has respected the high-quality flag setting for each
movie. This flag is most important for movies that contain interlaced video (notable
DV-NTSC and DV-PAL). When the high-quality is turned on, both fields of the
video are rendered; when turned off, only one field will be rendered, and the other
field will be interpolated. You can set the high-quality flag for a movie using
QuickTime Player Pro or other applications.
In the Media Window, you can set a flag to force Isadora to render the movie at
either high-quality or standard quality. Setting either of these flags overrides the
high-quality flag stored with the movie.
To force high-quality playback of your movies:
• Select the movies references you want to play in high-quality mode.
• Click the HQ button at the top right of the Media Window. An HQ marker
will appear to the right of each movie in that was selected.
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