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Filtering Bins Using Color Tags
If you’re working on a project that has a lot of bins, you can apply color tags to identify particular bins with one of eight colors. Tagging bins is as easy as right-clicking any bin and choosing the color you want from the Color Tag submenu.
For example, you can identify the bins that have clips you’re using most frequently with a red tag. A bin’s color tag then appears as a colored background behind that bin’s name.
Once you’ve tagged one or more Media Pool bins, you can use the Color Tag Filter drop-down menu (the drop-down control to the right of the Bin List button) to filter out all but a single color of bin.
Using Color Tags to identify bins
Using color tag filtering to isolate the red bins
To go back to seeing all available bins, choose Show All from the Color Tag Filter drop-down.
Sorting the Bin List
The Bin list (and Smart Bin list) of the Media Pool can be sorted by Bin Name, Date Created, or Date Modified, in either ascending or descending order. Simply right-click anywhere within the Bin list and choose the options you want from the Sort by submenu of the contextual menu.
You can also choose User Sort from the same contextual menu, which lets you manually drag all bins in the Bin list to be in whatever order you like. As you drag bins in this mode, a highlighted line indicates the new position that bin will occupy when dropped.
If you use User Sort in the Bin list to rearrange your bins manually, you can switch back and forth between any of the other sorting methods (Name, Date Created, Date Modified) and User Sort and your manual User Sort order will be remembered, making it easy to use whatever method of bin sorting is most useful at the time, without losing your customized bin organization.
