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 Smart Bins: These are procedurally populated bins, meaning that custom rules
employing metadata are used to dynamically filter the contents of the Media Pool
whenever you select a Smart Bin. This makes Smart Bins fast ways of organizing the
contents of projects for which you (or an assistant) has taken the time to add metadata
to your clips using the Metadata Editor, adding Scene, Shot, and Take information,
keywords, comments and description text, and myriad other pieces of information to
make it faster to find what you’re looking for when you need it. To create a new Smart
Bin, show the Smart Bin area of the Bin list (if necessary), then right-click within it and
choose Add Smart Bin. A dialog appears in which you can edit the name of that bin and
the rules it uses to filter clips, and click Create Smart Bin.
Showing Bins in Separate Windows
If you right-click a bin in the Bin list, you can choose “Open As New Window” to open that bin
into its own window. Each window is its own Media Pool, complete with its own Bin list, Power
Bins and Smart Bins lists, and display controls.
This is most useful when you have two displays connected to your workstation, as you can drag
these separate bins to the second display while DaVinci Resolve is in single screen mode. If you
hide the Bin list, not only do you get more room for clips, but you also prevent accidentally
switching bins if you really want to only view a particular bin’s contents in that window. You can
have as many additional Bin windows open as you care to, in addition to the main Media Pool
that’s docked in the primary window interface.
Filtering Bins Using Color Tags
If you’re working on a project that has a lot of bins, you can apply color tags to identify particular
bins with one of eight colors. Tagging bins is as easy as right-clicking any bin and choosing the
color you want from the Color Tag submenu.
For example, you can identify the bins that have clips you’re using most frequently with a red
tag. A bin’s color tag then appears as a colored background behind that bin’s name.
Using color tags to identify bins
Once you’ve tagged one or more Media Pool bins, you can use the Color Tag Filter drop-down
menu (the drop-down control to the right of the Bin List button) to filter out all but a single
color of bin.
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