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The movie gallery is the drawer at the bottom of the active document window. It's like the private Dock of SimpleMovieX.

Its primary use is a document switcher : All the open documents are represented in the gallery, and by pressing a thumbnail button, SimpleMovieX switches to the corresponding window.

The Gallery also acts as the Inbox of an email client, and "receives" the newly created movies. Batch Export, Split by chapter, and Save RefMovie create new movies that show up with a blue dot in the Gallery.

The Gallery also stores frequently-used or favorite movies. By pressing on a thumbnail button, you open the corresponding movie. A movie stored in the Gallery will be remembered even after SimpleMovieX exits. It behaves very similarly to the Dock.

To add a frequently-used or favorite movie to the Gallery :
Open the movie, then do File>Keep in Gallery or Command-L.
Note that this action will fail if the movie has not been saved yet, for example if just created.

To remove a movie from the Gallery :
Open the movie, then do File>Keep in Gallery or Command-L.
Note that the movie stays in the Gallery until it is closed.

You can also add and remove movies by dragging and dropping files into the gray area.

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For example, in the picture we have from left to right :

Also note that the contents of the pasteboard is displayed in the Gallery.

The Clean button removes all the movies from the Gallery.



Hide Movie Gallery:

Through the Preferences Pane, you can deactivate the Movie Gallery. Default behavior is showing it in the active document window. By unchecking the setting, the Gallery never appears. You can always open and close it manually with the Gallery button.


Example of use:
Imagine you are authoring movies for your company, and you need to put the company logo movie at the beginning, as well as a credits sequence at the end.
You could load those 2 movies in the Gallery and make them persistent.

Therefore, every time you use SimpleMovieX, those 2 movies are here, ready to be inserted in your current work.