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These categories are hierarchically organized, with each category closed by default to save
space. Click the disclosure triangle of any category to reveal all Keyword, People, Scene, or
Shot Smart Bins that are available in the current project. Selecting the Smart Category’s top bin
lets you see every clip referenced by every Smart Bin inside of it, whereas selecting individual
Smart Bins shows you only the clips referenced by that Smart Bin.
A Smart Category seen in the Smart
Bins area of the Media Pool sidebar
Manual Smart Bin Creation
It’s easy to manually create Smart Bins with customized rules to filter very specific collections of
media that you want to use.
To show or hide the Smart Bin area of the Bin list:
Choose View > Show Smart Bins to toggle the visibility of all Smart Bins on and off.
To create a Smart Bin:
1 If necessary, open the Bin list, choose View > Show Smart Bins, then right-click
anywhere in the background of the Smart Bin area of the Bin list, and choose Create
Smart Bin.
2 In the Create Smart Bin dialog, enter a name for the filter, and use the following controls
to create one or more filter criteria (you can have as many filter criteria as you like):
The Create Smart Bin dialog
Match options: For multi-criteria filtering, choosing All ensures that every single criteria
you specify is met for a clip to be filtered. Choosing Any means that if only one out of
several criteria is met, that clip will be filtered.
Filter criteria enable checkbox: Lets you enable or disable any criteria without having
to delete it.
Metadata category drop-down: Lets you choose which category of metadata you want
to select a criteria from. Each category of metadata that’s available in the Metadata
Editor is available from this drop-down menu. Additionally, Color Timeline Properties
(containing many properties unique to the Color page timeline) and Media Pool
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