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Sharing Media Among Projects Using Power Bins
Power Bins provide a way of importing and organizing media that you want to be available to all projects in DaVinci Resolve. Power Bins reside in a separate area of the Media Pool, with resizable dividers separating them from both the ordinary bins and Smart Bins areas. Power Bins are hierarchical, just like regular bins, and you can nest as many as you like, one inside another.
Like regular bins, Power Bins must be manually created by right-clicking within the Power Bins area and choosing Add Bin. The difference is that whatever clips you import into Power Bins are shared among all projects in a single-user installation, or all projects belonging to a particular user in a multi-user installation. In this way, they’re similar to Power Grades in the gallery of the Color page.
This makes Power Bins ideal for storing shared media that’s re-used often, such as stock video, sound effects, stills, and things like company slates and network graphics and animations that go into every show of a series.
The Power Bins area of the Bin list
Power Bins are created and used like any other bin, using the procedures described previously.
— Choose Show Power Bins from the Media Pool option menu to toggle the visibility of all power bins on and off.