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— Bins: Simple, manually populated bins. Drag and drop anything you like into a bin, and that’s where it lives, until you decide to move it to another bin. Bins may be hierarchically organized, so you can create a Russian dolls nest of bins if you like. Creating new bins is as easy as right-clicking within the bin list and choosing Add Bin from the contextual menu.
— Power Bins: Hidden by default. These are also manually populated bins, but these bins are shared among all of the projects in your current project library, making them ideal for shared title
generators, graphics movies and stills, sound effects library files, music files, and other media that you want to be able to quickly and easily access from any project. To create a new Power Bin, show the Power Bins area of the Bin list, then right-click within it and choose Add Bin.
— Smart Bins: These are procedurally populated bins, meaning that custom rules employing metadata are used to dynamically filter the contents of the Media Pool whenever you select a Smart Bin. This makes Smart Bins fast ways of organizing the contents of projects for which you (or an assistant) has taken the time to add metadata to your clips using the Metadata Editor, adding Scene, Shot, and Take information, keywords, comments and description text, and myriad other pieces of information to make it faster to find what you’re looking for when you need it.
To create a new Smart Bin, show the Smart Bin area of the Bin list (if necessary), then right-click within it and choose Add Smart Bin. A dialog appears in which you can edit the name of that bin and the rules it uses to filter clips, and click Create Smart Bin.
Showing Bins in Separate Windows
If you right-click a bin in the Bin List, you can choose “Open As New Window” to open that bin into its own window. Each window is its own Media Pool, complete with its own Bin List, Power Bins and Smart Bins lists, and display controls.
This is most useful when you have two displays connected to your workstation, as you can drag these separate bins to the second display while DaVinci Resolve is in single screen mode. If you hide the
Bin list, not only do you get more room for clips, but you also prevent accidentally switching bins if you really want to only view a particular bin’s contents in that window. You can as many additional Bin windows open as you care to, in addition to the main Media Pool that’s docked in the primary window interface.
Media Pool bins opened as new windows