In the Media Pool you can create databases, which you can then organize, search, and filter to quickly find audio files in your local or network libraries.
There are two folders in the Databases tab:
Project Originals: Lists the audio files in your project. After you import files into your project, they are included in this list.
User Databases: Used to create databases and Virtual Folders to organize the audio files in your libraries.
To create databases:
From the Media Pool Databases tab, do one of the following:
Right-click User Databases and then select New Child > Media Pool Database.
Click the Create Media Pool Database icon.
Drag and drop one or many folders from your local file browser to a User Databases Virtual Folder.
Enter a name for your database.
To open the Media Pool Database Settings dialog, do one of the following:
Double-click the database.
Right-click the database and then select Database Settings.
Click + to create a path to the folder containing the files you want to add to the database.
Browse to select the folder and then click Select Folder.
OK를 클릭합니다.
The Media Pool recursively scans the folders linked to the database and adds all audio file metadata to that database. The files are then displayed in the Results pane.
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참고 The Media Pool detects the following audio formats: .wav, .amb, and .adm.
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Open the folder containing the database cache files. | |||
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Click + to link your library folder to the database. | |||
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The list of library folders that are tracked by your database. | |||
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Click Rescan Database to manually scan your database because of file changes. Media Pool databases are scanned every time you open a project.
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To organize your databases and access files quickly, you can create Virtual Folders and add databases to them. To create a folder or database:
Right-click a folder and then select New Child > Virtual Folder or Media Pool Database: Creates a new child folder or child database.
Click the Create new Media Pool Database icon: Creates a new database under the folder or database you have selected.
Right-click a folder or database and then select New Parent > Virtual Folder: Creates a new parent Virtual Folder where you can add databases.
With a virtual folder selected, click the Create new Virtual Folder icon. Creates a new folder under the selected virtual folder.
You can further organize your Databases pane by right-clicking a folder or database and then selecting:
Delete: Delete your database or folder. Alternatively, you can press the Delete key.
Rename: Rename you database or folder. Alternatively, you can press F2.
Set color: Select a color for a folder or database. A color bar is displayed beside the folder or database name.
By default, the Results pane displays only the Name and Waveform columns. To configure the columns, do one of the following:
To add or remove columns, right-click the column header and select Configure Columns and then select the field to display as a column.
To reorder the columns, right-click the column header and select Configure Columns. Reorder a selected field by dragging and dropping it.
To add a column from a field in the Metadata pane, right-click a field and select Add Field as Column. For example, to add a Sample Rate column, right-click Sample Rate and then select Add Field as Column.
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Select a field to include in the Results pane. Deselect a field to remove from Results pane. Search for a field in the Search bar. |
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| Select and drag the field to place it in the order it will be displayed in the Results pane. In this image, the WAV/Channels field is being dragged to appear after the General/Name field. |
Use the Search field at the top of the Results pane to find specific audio files. As you type in the Search field, the Media Pool searches the metadata in the database files and displays matches in the Results pane.
The Results pane displays both the Project Originals and the Database files. Select or deselect the check box next to the folders or databases you want to include or exclude from the search.
To search for files by metadata:
Select the Selected Fields option Search drop-down list.
Click the gear icon to the right of the Search field and then select the check box for each field to include in the search.
Type in the text string to search by.
You can use the following operators to get more precise results:
Exact phrase: Use double quotes (") to find a specific phrase, for example, "footstep medium".
Exclude words: Use a hyphen (-) or exclamation mark (!) to remove unwanted results. For example: footstep !concrete.
As you type, the Results pane is dynamically populated with matches. The best matches appear at the top of the list.
For a file to appear in the Results pane, each word in the search string must be found at least once in the selected metadata fields. Using quotation marks to specify an exact phrase enforces that the words should appear in the same field in the written order.
The word matching process is approximate, allowing for prefix matches. For example, “foot” matches with “footstep”. The approximate search also allows for typos. For example, “foottep” matches with “footstep”.
Matched files are given a score that ranks the exact matches higher than approximate matches. To view the Score column, right-click the column header and select Configure Columns to select the Score field.
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You can also search by Similar Sound Search. “Similar Sound Search”을(를) 봐주세요. |
You can create filters to refine the list of audio files in the Results pane.
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| The number of filters in the Filters pane. |
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| Click the delete icon to delete all filters. Alternatively you can click the delete icon beside a filter to delete only that one. |
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| Click + to add a filter. |
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| A field filter created by selecting or right-clicking a metadata field. |
 | An Audio Similarity filter to find audio files with a similar sound to the waveform of the selected file. |
 | An Audio Description filter to find audio files that sound similar to the description you type. |
To create a filter from the Metadata pane:
Select a file from the Results pane. The metadata for that file is displayed in the Metadata pane.
In the Metadata pane, right-click a field and select Add Field Filter. For example, to filter the results by Sample Rate, right-click Sample Rate and then click Add Field Filter.
The field is displayed in the Filters pane with its current value.
Select an operator and enter or edit the value.
The Results pane is updated based on the operator and value that you have configured.
To create a filter in the Filters pane:
Click the Filters tab.
Click +.
다음 중 하나를 선택합니다.
Field: Filters by metadata fields.
Audio Similarity: Ranks search results based on their similarity to the waveform of the audio of the selected file.
Audio Description: Ranks search results based on their similarity to the description of a sound.
If you selected Field, click the pencil icon to select a field you want to filter by and then click OK.
Select an operator and enter the value.
The Results pane is updated based on the operator and value that you have selected.
To create an Audio Similarity filter from a waveform
다음 중 하나를 골라 따라하세요.
In the Results pane, right-click a file and select Find Similar.
In the Audio Preview/Region Selector, right-click anywhere in the file waveform (without any regions selected) and select Find Similar.
In the Audio Preview/Region Selector, right-click a selected region and then select Find Similar (Region).
The filter is added to the Filters pane.
Set a weight for the filter, if desired.
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For more information on Audio Similarity and Audio Description, see “Similar Sound Search”. |
The following tables describe the filter properties.
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Properties shared by all filters |
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| Filter name |
Displays the name and information about the filter configuration. To change the order of how the filters appear in the Filters pane, right-click the name of the filter and select either Move Up Media Pool Filter at index # or Move Down Media Pool Filter at index #. |
| Include |
Select to filter based on the field. If you deselect this check box, this filter is removed from your search criteria. |
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Field Filter Properties |
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| Field |
The metadata field by which to filter the results. |
| Operator |
The operation that defines how to filter the field. This operator changes depending if the field is a text or numeric field. The operators for text fields:
The operators for numeric fields:
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| Value |
The value by which the operator filters the results. For example, for the numeric field Sample Rate, you can filter a your results to include only audio files that have a Sample Rate of < 48000 Hz. The operator is less than (<) and the value is 48000. |
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Similar Sound Search Properties |
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| 설명 | Used for the Audio Description for Similar Sound Search filter. Type a description of the sound to filter by, for example, "buzzing". |
| Similar To |
Displays the waveform that other audio files are compared to. |
| Weight | The relative importance of the similarity filter to other filters. Used for both Audio Similarity and Audio Description filters. Use this to boost or reduce the impact of a given similarity filter for ranking the search results. |
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