From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training

Smart Bins - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

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Smart Bins

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- If you've watched any of the demos online, maybe at NAB this year, of DaVinci Resolve 12, this feature you've probably seen up front and center. I'll take you through it very, very quickly right now. And it's called Smart Bins. The first thing is is you'll see I've already got a Smart Bin in here for Timelines. Now, if you watch the earlier movie on the "Five Things in Four Minutes," you'll see that I created this timeline's folder to automatically sort all of my timelines into a folder. If you don't do that up front at the beginning of a session, guess what, you can do it later using Smart Bins. Now your timelines will still be mixed in with your footage, but you can have a smart timeline here that kind of coalesces them all into a single folder here. The way you enable this default one, I don't have to really do much to make it active. I'll just press Shift 9 to open up Project Settings. I'll jump into General Options, and there's this Create Smart Bin for Timelines. I have that enabled right now. I can unenable it, click Save, and it just disappears. So what if I want to create that on my own? Well I can go ahead and do that as well. I can right click in the folder area here in the media pool and select Add Smart Bin. And now I have a whole bunch of parameters that I can filter through. Not just the Clip Details, but that's what we're going to focus on right now. I'm going to call this Timelines. We're going to recreate that folder by hand. Now I've got a pulldown. This first pulldown window is the metadata upon which we're going to build the rest of the smart filter. And basically, it mimics the metadata you find up here in the Metadata Inspector. Anything we can inspect upon, we can filter upon. I'm just going to set this to Media Pool Properties, and then rather than Name, I'm going to select Clip Type. Now it changes up my options here. I want a Clip Type that is not Video or Audio or Multicam, but Timeline. Create SmartBin, and there it is. I've just recreated what I turned off in Project Settings. The point being that it's really simple to create these Smart Bins and they're relatively flexible.

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