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In Thumbnail view, you can use the Sort Order drop-down, at the top right of the Media Pool,
between the Icon Size slider and the Icon/List view buttons, to choose how clips are sorted.
There are fourteen options: File Name, Reel Name, Clip Name, Start TC, Duration, Type, FPS,
Audio Ch, Flags, Date Modified, Date Created, Shot, Scene, and Take.
Working With Columns in List View
If you work in List view using the controls at the top right of the Media Pool, you gain additional
organizational control by exposing columns that show the metadata that each clip contains,
prior to media being added to your timeline. You can use these columns to help organize
your media.
Methods of customizing metadata columns in List view:
 To show or hide columns: Right-click at the top of any column in the Media Pool to
reveal the column list, and while the column list is open, click the checkboxes of any
columns you want to show or hide. Unchecked columns cannot be seen. When you’re
finished, click anywhere else in the Media Pool to dismiss the column list.
 To rearrange column order: Drag any column header to the left or right to rearrange
the column order.
 To resize any column: Drag the border between any two columns to the right or left to
narrow or widen that column.
 To sort by any column: Click the column header you want to sort with. Each additional
time you click, the same header toggles that column between ascending and
descending sort order.
Once you’ve customized a column layout that works for your particular purpose, you can save it
for future recall.
Methods of saving and using custom column layouts:
 To create a column layout: Show, hide, resize, and rearrange the columns you need
for a particular task, then right-click any column header in the Media Pool, and choose
Create Column Layout. Enter a name in the Create Column Layout dialog, and click OK.
 To recall a column layout: Right-click any column header in the Media Pool, choose the
name of the column layout you want to use from the contextual menu, and choose Load
from that item’s submenu. All custom column layouts appear at the top of the list.
 To edit a column layout: Load the column layout you want to edit, make whatever
changes you need to, then right-click any column header in the Media Pool, choose
the name of the column layout you just edited from the contextual menu, and choose
Update from that item’s submenu.
 To delete a column layout: Right-click any column header in the Media Pool, choose
the name of the column layout you want to delete from the contextual menu, and
choose Delete from that item’s submenu.
While the available columns of metadata correspond to those fields shown in the Metadata
Editor, the available columns in the Media Pool of the Media and Edit pages are a subset of the
total amount of metadata that’s available, although they represent the most commonly used
metadata you’ll find yourself referring to when editing and finishing.
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