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Manually Organizing the Media Pool
Whether you’re doing onset work, creating digital dailies, organizing media to edit, or ingesting media to conform to an imported project, it’s vitally important to stay organized. The Media Pool provides many different tools for doing so. This section examines how you can create bins to manually organize collections of clips.
To Select Clips in the Media Pool
There are a variety of ways you can make clip selections in the Media Pool in preparation for relinking, unlinking, moving, duplicating, deleting, or doing any other operation to them.
— Click any clip to select it.
— Drag a bounding box around several clips to select them all.
— Hold the Command or Shift keys down and drag a bounding box around another discontiguous group of clips to either add them to the current selection or remove them from the
current selection.
— Click one clip, then Shift-click another to select both clips and make a continuous selection of all clips in-between. Shift-clicking another clip can expand or contract the selection.
— Command-click individual clips to select a discontiguous number of clips. Command-click a clip that’s already selected to individually de-select it, while leaving the rest of the selection alone.
— With one clip selected, hold the Shift or Command keys down and use the Arrow keys to expand the selection to other clips.
Organizing Media into Bins
You can easily organize clips into different bins in the Media Pool. For some workflows, this is required, while with other workflows it’s purely optional.
— To add a bin to the Media Pool: Right-click in the Bin list and choose Add Bin. To add a bin inside another bin, right-click any bin and choose Add Bin.
— To move selected clips into a new bin: Select all the clips you want to put into a new bin, then right-click one of the selected clips, and choose Create Bin With Selected Clips.
— To rename a bin: Select the bin you want to rename, and then click its name a second time to make it editable. With the bin name highlighted, type a new name and press Return. Alternately, you can right-click a bin, choose Rename Bin, and then type a new name and press Return.
— To add incoming clips to a specific bin in the Media Pool: Click a bin to select it, then use any of the previously described methods to add media from the Media Storage panel directly to that bin.
— To move media from one bin to another: Drag one or more selected clips from their current location in the Media Pool into that bin. Multiple clips in the Media Pool can be selected by Shift- clicking or Command-clicking them, or by dragging a bounding box over a group of clips. You can also drag one bin into another one.
— To delete a bin: Select the bin you want to delete, and press the Backspace or Delete key. Or, right-click a bin and choose Delete Bin. Deleting a bin with nested bins inside of it results in that entire set of bins being deleted.