User guide

Roxio Creator User Guide
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About Media Manager
Your media files—photos, video clips, music tracks, and Roxio projects—
come from many different sources, and can be stored in various locations
on your computer. They can also be stored on network drives, on
removable storage devices, such as CD or DVD discs, or on compatible
wireless devices, such as mobile phones.
Media Manager provides two tools for organizing and viewing your media
files:
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Smart Views: Media Manager automatically groups your media files
based on common characteristics, such as media type, project type
(PhotoSuite, MyDVD, and so on), keyword, and date (last week, last
month, and so on). A media file can belong to multiple Smart Views.
You can also create custom Smart Views based on searches.
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My Albums: You can group media files with a common theme into
albums. As with Smart Views, a media file can belong to multiple
albums. When you move a file into an album, the physical location of
the file does not change.
For example, you might have a photograph of your children at the zoo
in the summer of 2008. You can create the following albums, and
include that photograph in all of them: Kids, Summer Vacation 2008,
Zoo.
If you’ve already organized your photos and videos into folders, Media
Manager automatically creates an album for each folder. When you
add a photo or video to one of these folders, Media Manager
automatically adds it to your album.
Starting Media Manager
To open Media Manager:
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From Creator’s main application window, select Browse and Manage
Media from one of these task categories: Video-Movies, Music-Audio,
or Photo.