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Media Pool
The Media Pool is central to the DaVinci Resolve experience. It contains all of the media that
you import into the current project, as well as all of the timelines you create. It also contains all
media that’s automatically imported along with Projects, Timelines, or Compositions that have
themselves been imported into DaVinci Resolve. In the Media page, enough room is given to
the Media Pool to make it an ideal place to sort, sift through, and organize the clips in your
project. However, the Media Pool is also mirrored in the Cut, Edit, Fusion, Color, and Fairlight
pages, so you can access clips as you build timelines, composites, grades, and sound design.
Media Pool with the Bin list open
The Bin List
Ordinarily, all media imported into a project goes into the Master bin, which is always at the top
of the Bin list and encompasses everything in a given project. However, you can add bins of
your own, and the Media Pool can be organized into as many user-definable bins as you like,
depending on your needs. Media can be freely moved from one bin to another from within the
Media Pool. When working in projects with multiple bins, you can choose to expose the bin
structure in one of two ways:
Bin list open: The Bin List button at the upper left-hand corner of the Media Pool lets
you open a separate List view showing all bins in your project, hierarchically. Bins that
contain other bins appear with a disclosure button to their left, that you can use to show
or hide the contents. With the Bin list exposed, it’s easy to organize clips among a large
collection of bins.
Bin list closed: When the Bin list is closed, all bins are hidden, and contents of
whichever bin is currently selected populate the Media Pool browser.
Showing Bins in Separate Windows
If you right-click a bin in the Bin list, you can choose “Open As New Window” to open that bin
into its own window. Each window is its own Media Pool, complete with its own Bin, Power Bins
and Smart Bins lists, and display controls.
This is most useful when you have two displays connected to your workstation, as you can drag
these separate bins to the second display while DaVinci Resolve is in single screen mode. If you
hide the Bin list, not only do you get more room for clips, but you also prevent accidentally
switching bins if you really want to only view a particular bin’s contents in that window. You can
have as many additional Bin windows open as you care to, in addition to the main Media Pool
that’s docked in the primary window interface.
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