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Video Manager
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The video manager will help you to view the medias of your project, from asset turns to render, animation playblasts and previz.
It allows you to create playlists, add comment for each media, navigate trough the versions of the medias and do quick editing of the media.

First open the video manager, click on Wizard menu > Windows > Video manager.

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The media browser
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.. image:: _images/videos_browser.jpg
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

All the medias of your project are stored here. Double click to load a video, or `right click > add to playlist` to add the selected medias to the current playlist.

.. image:: _images/load_video_in_playlist.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

You can search for videos in the browser by typing for example the stage, the user, the state, the priority etc...

.. image:: _images/search_video_in_browser.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

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The timeline
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.. image:: _images/video_manager_timeline.jpg
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

This is the timeline, where you can navigate trough the loaded media.
Click on play to play the current playlist.

.. image:: _images/play_video.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

Double click on a media to set the time line bounds around this specific media. You can also loop on a media or on all the playlist.

.. image:: _images/loop_on_media.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

You can also modify the length of a media in the playlist ( a bit like editing ).

.. image:: _images/crop_media.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

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The media history
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.. image:: _images/media_history.jpg
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

This panels allows you to navigate trough the different versions of the current media.

.. image:: _images/change_video_version.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

You can notify that this panel update when the timeline cursor goes over another video.

.. image:: _images/media_history_update.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

.. note::
  It does the same for the asset tracking panel, see :ref:`Asset tracking`

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The playlist browser
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.. image:: _images/playlist_browser.jpg
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

You can manage your playlists in this section.
To load a playlist, double click on it.

.. image:: _images/load_playlist.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

To create a new playlist, click on the plus button

.. image:: _images/create_playlist_1.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

To see the current playlist, look at this section. If the playlist is modified, there will be an * after the playlist name.

.. image:: _images/current_playlist.jpg
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

To save the current playlist, go to `Playlist > Save playlist`

.. image:: _images/save_playlist.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

You can also save as a new playlist or create a empty one.

.. image:: _images/save_as_playlist.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

To export the playlist as a mp4 video file, go to `Playlist > Export video`.

.. image:: _images/export_playlist.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

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The player preferences
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To modify the frame rate or resolution go to `Player > Preferences`

.. image:: _images/player_preferences.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

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Create playlists from other parts of wizard
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You can create a playlist from the video tab of a stage by double clicking on a video.

.. image:: _images/show_video.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

You can also create a playlist from the production manager.

.. image:: _images/playlist_from_production_manager.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text

Finally, you can create a playlist from the production agenda.

.. image:: _images/playlist_from_production_agenda.gif
  :width: 1200
  :alt: Alternative text