Chapter 11: DigiBase 209
9 Select all the files found on that volume and
drag them onto the Aviary Catalog icon (listed
in the Workspace browser).
10 Close the Volume browser and double-click
the Aviary Catalog, the Aviary Catalog browser
opens, showing the footstep files completely in-
dexed.
11 Next, you need to find some mouse squeaks
from a new sound effects CD-ROM. Mount the
CD-ROM and it appears as a new volume in the
Workspace browser.
12 To avoid having to index and search through
every file on the CD-ROM, double-click on the
CD-ROM’s icon in the Workspace browser to
open the Volume browser for the CD-ROM. The
browser shows twenty or more folders (typical
of sound effects libraries, where sounds are orga-
nized by contents).
13 Click to select (highlight) just the folder
named Animals, and select Update Database for
Selected from the Browser menu. This indexes
only the selected folder, rather than the entire
disc.
14 With the folder indexed, perform a search on
“Mouse.” Several files are found and listed in the
browser.
15 Audition each item by clicking the Speaker
icon next to the waveform.
16 Select the three best files, and drag them to
the Aviary Catalog browser. They now appear
there next to the footsteps we found in the pre-
vious step.
17 Close the browser for the CD-ROM.
Search on Multiple Criteria:
18 Next, you need a car crash that is 5–6 seconds
long. A Catalog already exists for a five-disc
sound effects library, and even though the CD-
ROMs are not mounted their contents can be
searched.
19 Click the Search icon in the Workspace
browser, select the five Catalogs to be included
in the search, type “car crash” in the File Name
Find field, and configure the Absolute Duration
field to find files that are between 5 and 6 sec-
onds in duration. Despite the fact that the CD-
ROMs are offline (not mounted), matching can-
didates can still be found.
20 Four files are found that match the search cri-
teria. Drag them onto the Aviary Catalog
browser to add them to the Catalog (they appear
as offline items).
Items in the Catalog
Searching for audio files between 5 and 6 seconds
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