Apple Motion 3 - Manual (Page 249)

Chapter 2 Creating and Managing Projects 249
Sorting Objects in the Media Tab
The Media tab contains 13 columns that provide information about each object in your
project.
You can customize the Media tab to show, hide, or rearrange any of these columns to
suit your needs. You can also resize the thumbnails displayed for each object.
Column Description
Preview Displays a thumbnail of the media object.
Name Lists the filename of the source media on disk to which the object
is linked. If you change the name of corresponding linked objects
in the Layers tab, this name doesn’t change.
Kind Lists the type of file, whether it’s a still image, QuickTime movie,
image sequence, or audio file.
In Use Indicates whether or not the media is in use in the project.
Duration Displays the total duration of the object, in frames or timecode,
depending on which is displayed in the Timeline.
Frame Size Displays the frame size of the object, in pixels.
Compressor For QuickTime movies, displays the codec used. For still images,
displays the method of compression that’s applied based on the
file type.
Depth Specifies the color depth of the image.
Frame Rate Displays the frame rate of the object, in frames per second.
Data Rate Displays the data rate at which a QuickTime movie is compressed.
Audio Rate For audio files and QuickTime movies, displays the sample rate of
the audio.
Audio Format For audio files and QuickTime movies, specifies the bit depth of the
audio.
File Size Shows the size of the source media file on disk.
File Created Shows the file creation date of the source media file on disk.
File Modified Shows the file modification date of the source media file on disk.
This is a useful parameter to use for file management.