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The preview player in the Media Pool
 Various viewing controls populate the title bar at the top. A drop-down menu at the
upper left lets you choose a zoom level for the audio waveform that’s displayed. To
the right of that, a Timecode window shows you the duration of the clip or the duration
that’s marked with In and Out points. Next to the right, a real-time performance
indicator shows you playback performance. In the center, the title of the currently
selected clip is shown, with a drop-down menu to the right that shows you the most
recent 10 clips you’ve browsed. To the far left, a Timecode field shows you the current
position of the playhead (right-clicking this opens a contextual menu with options to
change the timecode that’s displayed, and to copy and paste timecode).
 The center of the Media Pool Preview Player shows you the waveforms in all channels
of the currently selected clip, at whatever zoom level is currently selected.
 Transport controls at the bottom consist of a jog bar for scrubbing, Stop, Play, and Loop
buttons, and In and Out buttons.
Bins, Power Bins, and Smart Bins
There are actually three kinds of bins in the Media Pool, and each appears in its own section of
the Bin list. The Power Bin and Smart Bin areas of the Bin list can be shown or hidden using
commands in the View menu (View > Show Smart Bins, View > Show Power Bins). Here are the
differences between the different kinds of bins:
 Bins: Simple, manually populated bins. Drag and drop anything you like into a bin,
and that’s where it lives, until you decide to move it to another bin. Bins may be
hierarchically organized, so you can create a Russian dolls nest of bins if you like.
Creating new bins is as easy as right-clicking within the bin list and choosing Add Bin
from the contextual menu.
 Power Bins: Hidden by default. These are also manually populated bins, but these
bins are shared among all of the projects in your current database, making them ideal
for shared title generators, graphics movies and stills, sound effects library files, music
files, and other media that you want to be able to quickly and easily access from any
project. To create a new Power Bin, show the Power Bins area of the Bin list, then right-
click within it and choose Add Bin.
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