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Choosing How to Display Bins
Once you’ve created a bin structure for your project, you can customize how your bins are
displayed, depending on how you like to work.
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. That window is basically 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.
Multiple Media Pool bins opened as new windows
When multiple Media Pool windows are open, the Workspace > Media Pool Windows submenu
lets you bring a floating Media Pool window into focus when you have one or more open
and hidden.
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.
Using the Media Pool in Thumbnail View
If you work in Thumbnail view using the controls at the top right of the Media Pool, you have
theoption to resize the thumbnails to make them easier to see, and you can move the mouse
pointer over each clip to hover scrub through its contents. Clicking any clip to select it displays
it in the Media page Viewer. Whichever clip is currently selected is also output to video
formonitoring.
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