John Rofrano has an excellent MM tutorial in the VASST Vegas 6 training DVD, but that I guess is longer term than you want right now. Have you played around with it enough to know the switches? The general approach to generating the media library that you're wanting is to select "new media library" and scan your directories for video (or audio or still) -- generally you set that scan for "new" only. When you tick the new scan, all the loaded clips will appear in the window, in thumbnail or Grid or whatever you've nominated. You apply tags to the clips by either dragging the tag to the clip or the clip to the tag (obviously you alternate). The general tags provided are limiting and you will probably create ones more suited to your library. You can scan large directories but can take a long time and better to do in smaller lumps (certainly until you've got the hang of it). There are a number of search options, the simplest of which is just to tick the tags you want (remember first to clear the search criteria). You can do "and", "or" "not" etc. Of course you can apply more than one tag to a clip, so you might have tags "sail" and "ocean", so by ticking both sail & ocean you get up all clips of sail on open ocean (excluding all the inland water and power boat clips). MM is a powerful tool and well worth the time to set up. This "tutorial" is unlikely to be adequate but if Jonnyroy doesn't come in then Q&A and experiment will get you through.