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Organizing Media into Bins

For short projects, having all your clips together in a single bin (the Master bin is the top level of

the Media Pool) can be fast. However, for longer projects, organizing your media into subsets of

clips within individual bins can make browsing each bin’s contents using the Source Tape of the

Viewer more manageable.

TIP: You can move clips you know you don’t want, such as instances where the

camera rolled on unusable scenery or moments, or completely unusable takes, into

another bin so those clips don’t present themselves in the Source Tape for bins

containing clips you want to use.

Master Bin

At the top level of your project hierarchy is the Master bin. The Master bin contains all of the

media content (clips, timelines, graphics, other bins, etc.) for your project. In the Cut page, the

Master bin also shows all of your project’s timelines for easy access, regardless of where

they’ve been created in your project.

Creating and Using Bins

You can create bins with which to organize your media by choosing File > New Bin (Shift-

Command-N), or by right-clicking in the Media Pool and choosing New Bin from the contextual

menu. You can create bins inside of other bins, and in so doing hierarchically organize the clips

you need in a variety of ways.

Bins seen in the Media Pool

Once you’ve created a bin, you can move one or more selected clips into it via drag and drop,

just as you would on the desktop of your operating system’s file manager.

Opening Bins

Any visible bin in the Media Pool can be opened by double-clicking it, or by clicking the Bin

drop-down at the upper left-hand corner of the Media Pool and choosing a bin to open from the

menu (they’re shown as a hierarchical list). When opened, a bin’s contents fill the Media Pool,

and a path indicator at the top of the Media Pool lets you see how many levels deep you are in

cases where you have bins inside of bins. You can click any level of this path to jump back up

the hierarchy, or you can choose another bin from the Bin drop-down.

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