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A drop-down menu right next to the magnifying glass icon lets you choose the scope of your
search. This lets you choose whether a search looks through all bins in the current project for
the specified criteria, or just looks at the currently open bin, or currently selected bins in the Bin
list, in cases where you’re looking for an instance of media in a specific hierarchical location of
the Media Pool.
The drop-down menu next to the magnifying glass
icon lets you set the bin search parameters
To find a clip in the Media Pool:
1 (Optional) Use the drop-down menu next to the Search button that exposes the Search
and Filter by controls in the Media Pool to choose whether you select All Bins or
Selected Bins.
2 (Optional) If you’re searching Selected Bins, then open the Bin list and select one or
more bins in which to search.
3 (Optional) Choose a criteria from the Search Options drop-down menu at the top right
of the Media Pool; you can choose All Fields to do a simultaneous search of every
metadata column in the Media Pool at once, or you can choose a specific criteria to
restrict your search.
4 Type a search term in the Search field. As soon as you start typing, all clips that don’t
match the search criteria are temporarily hidden. To show all clips in the Media Pool
again, click the cancel button at the right of the search field.
Finding Synced Audio
If you’ve synced dual-system audio and video clips together in DaVinci Resolve, you can find
the audio clip that a video clip has been synced to using the following procedure.
To find the audio clip that a video clip has been synced to:
Show the Media Pool in List view, and reference file name in the Synced Audio column.
Right-click a video clip that’s been synced to audio, and choose “Reveal synced audio
in Media Pool” from the contextual menu. The bin holding the synced audio clip is
opened and that clip is selected.
Finding Timeline Clips in the Media Pool
If you have a clip in a timeline and you want to find the corresponding clip that it’s conformed to
in the Media Pool, you can right-click that clip, and choose Find in Media Pool from the
contextual menu.
Finding Timelines in the Media Pool
If you’d like to find the currently open timeline’s location in the Media Pool, you can choose
Timeline > Find Current Timeline in Media Pool.
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