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To search for a clip by name:
1 Select which bin or bins you want to search.
2 Click the magnifying glass button at the upper right-hand corner of the Media Pool.
3 Choose the particular column of information you want to search (or All Fields to search
all columns) using the Filter by pop-up menu. Only selected bins will be searched.
4 Type your search string into the Search field that appears. A few letters should be
enough to isolate only those clips that have that character string within their name. To
show all clips again, click the cancel button at the right of the search field.
TIP: Smart Bins are essentially multi-criteria search operations that scope the entire
project at once and are saved for future use.
If you’ve synced dual-system audio and video clips together in DaVinci Resolve, you can find
the audio clip that a video clip has been synced to using the following procedure.
To find the audio clip that a video clip has been synced to:
Right-click a video clip that’s been synced to audio, and choose “Reveal synced audio in Media
Pool” from the contextual menu. The bin holding the synced audio clip is opened and that clip
is selected.
Taking Advantage of the Media Pools Usage Column
In List view, the Usage column does not automatically update to show how many times a
particular clip has been used. However, you can manually update this metadata by right-clicking
within the Media Pool and choosing Update Usage Data from the contextual menu that
appears. Afterwards, each clip will display how many times it’s been used in this column. Clips
that have not been used yet display an x.
Metadata Editor
Both the Media and Edit pages have a Metadata Editor. When you select a clip in any area of
the Media page, its metadata is displayed within the Metadata Editor. If you select multiple clips,
only the last clip’s information appears. The Metadata Editor’s header contains uneditable
information about the selected clip, including the file name, directory, duration, video codec,
frame rate, resolution, audio codec, sample rate, and number of channels.
Because there are so very many metadata fields available, two drop-down menus at the top let
you change which set of metadata is displayed in the Metadata Editor.
Metadata Presets (to the left): If you’ve used the Metadata panel of the User
Preferences to create your own custom sets of metadata, you can use this drop-down
to choose which one to expose. Surprisingly enough, this is set to “Default” by default.
Metadata Groups (to the right): This drop-down menu lets you switch among the
various groups of metadata that are available, grouped for specific tasks or workflows.
The heart of the Metadata Editor is a series of editable fields underneath the header that let you
review and edit the different metadata criteria that are available. For more information on
editing clip metadata and creating custom metadata presets, see Chapter 12, “Using
ClipMetadata.”
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