Apple Motion 3 - Manual (Page 200)

200 Chapter 2 Creating and Managing Projects
Preview area: Displays a preview of the currently selected file in the file stack. If a
movie is selected, the Play button allows you to play through the clip. Information
about the clip being previewed appears to the right of the thumbnail preview.
Back and Forward buttons: These buttons allow you to navigate your browsing
history. Clicking the left arrow moves you to the last item browsed. Repeatedly clicking
the left arrow eventually moves you up to the first item you selected, such as the
Desktop, a partition, or your home folder. Once you have reached the beginning of
your browsing history, the left arrow is dimmed. Clicking the right arrow takes you
forward in your browsing history. If you have never opened any folders within the
currently open folder in the file stack, the right arrow is dimmed.
Path pop-up menu: Displays the current folder hierarchy as a list, with the currently
open folder at the top, and each enclosing folder appearing underneath. “Computer”
appears at the bottom, which is the topmost directory of all disks connected to your
computer.
Search field: The Search field filters the file stack for the search terms you’ve entered.
Controls for Customizing the File Browser
File Browser divider: Dragging this divider up and down allows you to reallocate
space between the File Browser sidebar and the file stack. Shrinking the sidebar also
shrinks each displayed icon, down to a certain point.
Icon View button: Sets the file stack to display each file and folder as an icon. Image
and movie files are represented by a thumbnail image, while folders are represented by
a folder icon. All icons in the stack are arranged into a grid, the size of which is defined
by the Scale slider at the bottom of the File Browser.
List View button: Sets the file stack to display each file and folder as a hierarchical list.
A thumbnail of each file and folder appears to the left of each file and folder name
within the Name column. To the right, several additional columns display information
for the date, size, duration, and kind of each file. The contents of the file stack can be
sorted by any single column by clicking that column’s header. Clicking the same header
twice reverses the sort order, from ascending to descending, or vice versa.
Icon View button List View button