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‌The Media Pool‌

The Media Pool contains all video clips, audio clips, graphics, and other media that you import into your project. You can create bins with which to organize all of this media, to make it easier to find what you need quickly. These bins are opened via the bin drop-down at the upper left-hand corner.

Each piece of media you import, whether it’s video, audio, or graphics, appears as an individual clip and can be selected, scrubbed for fast viewing, reorganized into bins, opened into the Viewer for playback, or edited into a timeline using the edit buttons or via drag and drop.

The Media Pool in Thumbnail view

Three buttons at the upper right of the Media Pool let you see your clips in different ways, depending on what you need to accomplish.

The Viewing Modes buttons

Metadata view: Each clip is represented by its own card with a scrubbable thumbnail and basic clip metadata information visible. This view is designed to have more metadata information than a thumbnail view but more targeted information than the List view.

Thumbnail view: Each clip is represented by a scrubbable thumbnail. Hover the playhead over each thumbnail and move it left and right to see the clip’s image play, and use the I and O keys to mark sections of a clip that you want to use. Clicking on the lower right corner of a thumbnail reveals the clip’s metadata.

Filmstrip view: Each clip is represented by a filmstrip of consecutive frames the length of the Media Pool. Hover the playhead over the clip and move it left and right to see the clip’s image play, and use the I and O keys to mark sections of a clip that you want to use.

List view: Each clip appears as an item in a multi-column list showing a variety of metadata about each clip. In List view, you can click the header of any column to sort the contents by that column’s information (clicking again toggles the sort order between Ascending and Descending). Scrolling right reveals additional columns of information.

A Sort Media By drop-down menu lets you choose which criteria defines the order in which clips in the Media Pool are arranged. Options include: Timecode, Camera, Date Time, Clip Name, Bin, Scene Shot, Clip Color, Date Modified, Date Imported, and Online Status. You can choose to sort in Ascending (bottom to top) or Descending (top to bottom) order.

Lastly, a search field lets you type a term you want to use to find one or more clips that match that criteria. When you type anything, the contents of the Media Pool shrink to show only clips that match your criteria.

The Sort Media By drop-down menu

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