Sorting on the lightbox

Lightbox view in the Media Pool allows you to sort your pictures at random, just like on a real lightbox. Moreover, it also allows you to find out whether pairs of pictures are suitable for dissolves.

In the Media Pool, click category Pictures.
Click button Lightbox view in the top right Media Pool corner.
You can now drag the pictures to any position and arrange them as you like. These are the options:

In order to have enough space for sorting, right-click the lightbox and select Insert empty field or Insert empty row.
Images can be dragged and dropped freely on the lightbox. If you drag one or several images on top of another image, these images are inserted and the other images moved further towards the end.
If you drag one individual picture on top of another one while pressing the Alt key, they swap places.
The Expand / Compress View function is particularly useful for digital pictures if you want to select the best from among a number of similar motifs. Right-click the picture, hold the mouse key down and move the mouse pointer slightly on that picture to make it appear in the timeline window.
The Dissolve test function helps you to quickly find pictures for good dissolves. With the right mouse button, drag a picture onto another picture and it will be dissolved in the timeline window as long as the right mouse button is kept pressed. By pressing a number key while doing so, the dissolve time is altered. 1 = 0.5 s, 2 = 1 s, 3 = 1.5 s, 4 = 2 s, 5 = 2.5 s, 6 = 3.5 s, 7 = 5 s, 8 = 7 s, 9 = 10 s and 0 = 0 s.
In order to close a gap between two pictures, click on an empty field and select Close gap
If you want to remove all empty fields, go the main menu and select Media Pool - Close lightbox gaps.
You can also shift and remove several highlighted pictures in one go. Highlighting several files works just like in the Windows Explorer. Hold the Ctrl Short for Control key key to highlight one individual picture after the other, use the Shift key to highlight several pictures following each other.
If you want to add new images at a certain location, right-click a picture or an empty field and select Add... After selecting the new pictures and clicking on Open, they are added to the corresponding location and the existing pictures are moved to the end.

After determining the order of the pictures, you can highlight these pictures and drag them into a picture track or an empty space in the timeline. This way a complete dissolve sequence is created.

You can open a second lightbox or an additional Media Pool window by right-clicking a folder or a category and selecting Open in new window.

Sorting according to certain criteria

In the List view, the pictures in the Media Pool can be sorted in accordance with certain criteria, such as Name, Used, Size, etc. And this sorting can also be transferred to the Lightbox View.

Click button Lightbox view in the top right Media Pool corner to display the pictures in list form.
Click the parameter in the title bar according to which you want sorting. Click a second time to reverse sorting, i.e. ascending or descending order.
In the main menu, click Media Pool – Current Sort Sequence -> Lightbox to display the pictures in the lightbox in accordance with their sorting order in the list.

If you want to maintain the sorted order of images when changing over to lightbox view click button Lightbox view while holding down the Ctrl key.
Those pictures that are already used in the show as objects are marked in the lightbox by a pink dot in the top left picture corner.
Pictures contained picture objects can also be exchanged in the timeline. See Shifting object contents.