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The Power Bins area of the Bin list
Like regular bins, Power Bins must be manually created by right-clicking within the Power Bins
area and choosing Add Bin. The difference is that whatever clips you import into Power Bins are
shared among all projects in a single-user installation, or all projects belonging to a particular
user in a multi-user installation. In this way, they’re similar to Power Grades in the gallery of the
Color page. This makes Power Bins ideal for storing shared media that’s re-used often, such as
stock video, sound effects, stills, and things like company slates and network graphics and
animations that go into every show of a series.
Power Bins are created and used like any other bin, using the procedures described previously.
To show or hide the Power Bin area of the Bin list:
Choose View > Show Power Bins to toggle the visibility of all power bins on and off.
Automated Organization
Using Smart Bins
A completely automated way of organizing media in the Media Pool is to use Smart Bins that are
either automatically or manually created, in order to collect all clips in the Media Pool that have
commonalities based on any of the intrinsic or user-editable metadata that’s available in the
Metadata Editor and Media Pool. If you’re familiar with the Color page, Smart Bins work much
the same way as Smart Filters, and they’re created and edited using much the same
procedures. For more information about Smart Filters, see Chapter 113, “Using the Color Page.”
Smart Bins are incredibly flexible. Using one or more metadata-based rules, they can be as
simple or sophisticated as you require. They’re even capable of using multiple groups of
multiple rules for situations where you need to gather clips that match all of one set of criteria,
but only one of a second set of criteria. In this way, you can use Smart Bins to solve a wide
variety of organizational needs as you edit your program.
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