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Smart Bins Are Only As Good As Your Metadata
It’s important to point out, however, that as much intrinsic metadata is available to every clip in
DaVinci Resolve automatically (clip properties such as frame rate, frame size, codec, file name,
and so on), the more time you take entering extra metadata in the Metadata Editor to prepare
your project for editing and grading, the more powerful Smart Bins can be in helping you to sift
and sort through the contents of a program you’re grading. Examples of metadata entry that will
guarantee immediate benefits from Smart Bins include the entry of scene, shot, and take
information, keywords identifying key descriptors (day and night, interior and exterior, framing,
and so on), and using Face Detection to assign character names. These categories of metadata
can be used for the automatic creation of Smart Bins, but they can also be used in combination
when manually creating Smart Bins that are even more specific.
Imagine being able to gather all the clips in a particular scene, find all the interview clips for a
particular subject, or find all the establishing shots corresponding to a particular location, all by
simply selecting a Smart Bin that automatically examines the current contents of the Media
Pool. If you or an assistant can take the time to enter metadata for the source material in a
project that identifies these characteristics, you’ll be able to work even more quickly to find the
clips you need for any given situation.
Smart Bins Update Their Contents Dynamically
Smart Bins are always dynamically up to date and include whatever new media is added to the
Media Pool. This makes it easy to stay organized, even when working on projects where new
media is being added to the Media Pool every day, such as when editing during a shoot.
By using metadata entered either in-camera, by the DIT or media wrangler managing ingest, or
by an Assistant Editor who’s working with you, Smart Bins will automatically include all clips in
the Media Pool that have matching criteria, whether they were added a month ago or a
minute ago.
Automatic Smart Bin Creation
The process of adding metadata to your clips can be used for the automatic creation of sets of
“Smart Categories,” which are Smart Bins that are generated and organized by the presence of
specific categories of metadata and appear in the Smart Bins section of the Media Pool sidebar.
To enable or disable this behavior, open the Editing panel of the User Preferences, and use the
checkboxes in the Automatic Smart Bins group to choose which metadata automatically creates
Smart Bins.
Preferences governing what metadata can automatically create Smart Bins
Metadata capable of creating Smart Bins include:
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Clip Keywords
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Marker Keywords
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People Keywords (added via People Detection)
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Scene metadata
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Shot metadata
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