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Create Temporary Collections Using Bins

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There are many ways to organize your assets. These are covered below. 

Bins

Bins are temporary collections of “tagged” assets. They can be helpful when auditioning multiple candidate assets for an effect, or when locating a list of assets, possibly from an EDL, and needing to find and reference them quickly. Once you have your assets collected, you can review them and process them as needed. Perhaps create a Set as a more permanent collection.

There is always at least 1 bin, but additional bins can be created/removed as desired. When working on multiple projects, perhaps create multiple bins to collect recently found assets as you jump back and forth from project to project.

Create a Bin

  1. Select Create New Bin from the Database menu.
  2. Press SHIFT+COMMAND+B.

Change the Current Bin

  1. Click the radio button next to the desired Bin. 

Add Asset(s) to the Current Bin

  1. Select assets in the Asset List.
  2. Press COMMAND+t, or click the check box in the Asset List.

View the Asset(s) in a Bin

  1. Select the desired Bins in the Master List.
  2. Press COMMAND+B to view the assets in the current Bin.

Empty a Bin

  1. Select the Bin and select Empty Bin... from the Database menu.
  2. CONTROL+click the Bin and select Empty Bin... from the contextual menu
  3. Click the empty bin icon.
  4. Press COMMAND+Delete to empty the current Bin.
  5. Press OPTION+COMMAND+DELETE to empty all Bins.

Remove a Bin

  • Select the Bin(s) and select Remove Bin(s) from the Database menu.
  • CONTROL+click the Bin and select Remove Bin from the contextual menu.
  • Click the delete bin icon.

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