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For more information on using the myriad features of the Media Pool, see Chapter 11, “Adding
and Organizing Media with the Media Pool.” In the sections that follow, some key features of the
Media Pool are summarized for your convenience.
Importing Media Into the Media Pool on the Edit Page
While adding clips to the Media Pool in the Media page provides the most organizational
flexibility and features, if you find yourself in the Edit, Cut, Fusion, Color, or Fairlight page and
you need to quickly import a few clips for immediate use, you can do so in a couple of
different ways.
To add media by dragging one or more clips from the Finder to the Edit page Media Pool
(macOS only):
1 Select one or more clips in the Finder.
2 Drag those clips into the Media Pool of DaVinci Resolve or to a bin in the Bin list.
Those clips are added to the Media Pool of your project.
To use the Import Media command in the Edit page Media Pool:
1 With the Edit page open, right-click anywhere in the Media Pool, and choose
ImportMedia.
2 Use the Import dialog to select one or more clips to import, and click Open.
Those clips are added to the Media Pool of your project.
For more information on using the myriad features of the Media Pool, see Chapter 11, “Adding
and Organizing Media with the Media Pool.” Below, some key features of the Media Pool are
summarized for your convenience.
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.
 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
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