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Showing Which Panel Has Focus
Each panel you use has “focus,” meaning that clicking an item or control within a particular panel makes that panel the active panel, which serves to direct keyboard shortcuts that are shared among many panels to the particular panel you’re using. If you want to see which panel is in focus, you can turn on the “Show focus indicators in the User Interface” checkbox in the UI Settings panel of the User Preferences. When on, a red line at the top of the active panel indicates that it has focus.
The focus indicator shown at the top edge of the Media Pool, shown next to a viewer that doesn’t have focus
The Media Pool
In the Edit page, the Media Pool contains all of the video, audio, and still image media you’ve imported for editing into the project at hand, as well as all of the timelines that you’re going to be editing into. The Media Pool is also mirrored on the Media, Cut, Fusion, Color, and Fairlight pages, so you can access any audio or video clip, graphic, or timeline from any page where they can be used.
The Media Pool in Thumbnail mode, shown in half-height mode