In Frame View, the frames can be enlarged or reduced from the Options in the Edit Menu. The shortcuts are Ctrl + L and Ctrl + K.

The Bin Background Color can be changed (look in the Edit Menu)

In the Bin to Storyboard Edit, the Avid reads the clips from Top Left to Bottom Right when making a sequence

In Frame View, a frame can be played in the Bin and on your video monitor. Just click on the clip in the Bin and press Play. In and Out points can be set on the fly.

Clips can always be moved from Bin to Bin to help stay orgainized

TO MAKE A COPY OF A CLIP/SEQUENCE IN A BIN TO BE DRAGGED TO ANOTHER BIN, click on the clip and press Option/Alt and drag it to another bin.

Colors of clips can be set in the bin. Highlight the clip(s) and go to Edit – Clip Color.

TO PREVENT DELETING CLIPS IN YOUR BIN, select your clips and go to Clip – Lock Clips. This also locks the associated media files.

TO SORT CLIPS IN A BIN, click on a column name and choose Sort from the Bin Menu or Fast Menu. All the clips in the Bin will be sorted. You can sort by name or timecode

When New Clips are brought into bins, they appear at the top of the list in Text View. Sorting can be used to re-order the clips. Hold down the Alt key while choosing Sort and a reverse sort is carried out

TO SEARCH FOR SOMETHING IN A BIN, go to Bin – Custom Sift. Type in your text and then choose a column to search in from the pop ups. The Bin Window will now only display those items found during your sift (the other clips are hidden). The sifted items can be moved to a new bin, deleted or copied.

TO LEAVE THE SIFTED ITEMS WHERE THEY ARE AND TO MOVE THE REMAINING CLIPS, select all the clips in the sifted view and then choose Show Unsifted from the Bins menu to see all the clips. Then choose Reverse Selection and the highlighted clips are deselected and the remainder are highlighted in their place



BINS AND ORGANIZATION

Make folders for Older Cuts. I can also throw stuff in the Trash, which is in the Project Window if I don't need that Bin anymore. It doesn't really get throw away unless I need to free up space on my drive


SUPER BIN

Helps to preserve screen real estate. It will open bins in the same place over and over again. To open as a Super Bin, single click on a bin, the bin space is replaced with another bin and if I click once on another bin it will replace the previous bin and not open a whole new one.

I can also work with Super Bins by clicking on the Blue Button next to the Brief Tab and it will show me all the other bins that are open and available to me. If I work with Super Bins, I could then take my project window and minimize it and work from the super bin.

Everything needs to be in its own space or things won't work properly.

If I choose the Text Tab, I will have more view choices to show me. I can create my own Custom view. I would then need to click on the little Hamburger and then on Headings.

For a custom Media Management view, choose Creation Date, Disk, Duration, End, Offline, Project, Start and Video and click OK. Offline is the most important in Media Management, so drag that column to be first. Then Start, End, Duration and so on. When it's the way I want it, click on the bottom drop down to save it by clicking on Save As...CN Media Management. This will become a user setting to go on my flash drive.

The FRAME VIEW is great if the clips are named and I don't know what they are. To make the thmbnails bigger, go to Edit - Enlarge Frame (Apple + L). Keep hitting Apple + L to make them even bigger and if they get too big where I can't see them all, go to the Hamburger in the project window and choose - Fill Window.

TO CHANGE THE POSTER FRAME OF THE THUMBNAIL, click on the thumbnail to select it and press J, K or L until I get to the frame I want.

If every first frame is a slate, I can select all the clips and Press L until it moves off of the slate and then press K to stop it.

There is also a SCRIPT VIEW. This lets me copy and paste stuff from Word documents so I can know what VO may go with this shot. If I go back to the Text view or Brief view it will show up in my Comments Column. This is great to add transcripts from interview.

TO CREATE A CUSTOM COLUMN, go into a blank area in the column heading section and once the cursor crosses over to it it becomes a straight line and I just need to click there and type what I want such as Shot Type and underneath it I can go to each clip and see what it is and then type WS or ECU or whatever. As I continue to label all my clips and after I have a few different ones entered, I can click in the blank space and hold down Option/Alt and it will give me a choice as to what to select.

As I enter in various custom info, I can then sift through certain things I am looking for. I can also export the bin and have it sent somewhere for searching or I can print it out and put it into a book.


SORTING and SIFTING in a BIN

I can Sort by clicking on and highlighting a column and then I can go to Bin - Sort (Apple/Ctrl + E). I can hold down Apple + E and click on the Start column and it will sort the timecode numerically.

I CAN ALSO DO A REVERSE SORT BY holding down Option/ALT + Ctrl + E key and clicking on the column header and it'll sort it in reverse. This is GREAT for finding out which shot was created most recently.

I can also SORT alphabetically by the clips name.

SIFTING WILL TAKE A BIG COMPLICATED BIN AND WILL JUST SHOW ME A FEW THINGS I NEED TO SEE. Go to the little Hamburger in the Project window and select Custom Sift. Type in key words that I'm looking for and then select which columns or Any Columns under the Any drop down menu. When I click OK it'll just show me those certain clips. In the name of the Bin it will show (sifted).

TO UN-SIFT a Bin, go back to the Fast Menu and click on Show Unsifted and I'll see all my clips again.

After sifting a bin which contains all the clips from a certain tape of just the shots I want, I can then copy those clips by holding down Option/ALT and click on the clips and drag them into a more specific bin while leaving an original clip in the original bin.

Another great way to Organize clips is by using Color. Select a clip or clips by holding down Shift and clicking and then go to Edit - Set Clip Color. I can then SIFT on the colors I choose by going to the Fast Menu then Custom Sift and typing in the color.

I can drag a color labeled shot into the timeline and by going to the Fast Menu in the timeline and choose Clip Color - Source and it'll show me what I chose as the color.


HOW TO FIND OFFLINE CLIPS IN THE TIMELINE
In the timeline open the Fast Menu and go to Clip Color and select Offline and it's show me whatever clips are offline in Red so I'll know which clips need to be re-digitized or I may have to mount another drive because the source material is missing.


FINDING CLIPS THAT MAY BE HIDDEN

This may be because multiple editors are sharing media for multiple projects. I may want to open a Bin from someone else's project to find a clip. To do this, go to the Fast Menu in my Project Settings Window and make sure none of my Bins are selected and choose Open Bin and the Finder Window will open and I can navigate to another project folder and then I can double-click on a Bin and it'll open the Bin in my project and I can use the clips as long as they are the same frame rate. Just don't delete someone else's master clips for media. I need to make a copy of their clip(s) and bring it into my bin.


TWO WAYS TO COPY A CLIP FROM ANOTHER PROJECT INTO ONE OF MY BINS IN MY CURRENT PROJECT

#1 - I can hold down the ALT/Option key (Cloning) and drag the clip out of the bin into my other one. The clip will appear with the same name in the new bin. If I change the name of the new clip in my current project it'll also change the name of the clip in the bin of the other project and when they open it, that clip will be offline . This could be a good thing if that's what I want, but if I just want to copy his clip and use it in my project without affecting his clip, I need to click on the clip to select it and then go to Bin - Duplicate (or press Apple/Ctrl + D). Then I can change the name of the clip without affecting the original. Then I can drag the clip from that bin into the bin I want it to go into.

If I copied it by Alt/Option dragging and I want to delete the clip so I don't mess anything up, highlight it and press Delete.


SUBCLIPS

Subclips are good to use for long interviews (ie. for each question or answer) or for entire tapes that have been digitized in one long clip.

TO MAKE A SUBCLIP, load a master clip into the Source monitor, mark and In and an Out point, set the track lights, then Option/Alt + Click on the center of the monitor and drag the clip into a bin. The subclip is made and ready to be named. You can also click and drag on the icon next to the clip name and drag it into the bin.

It is possible to trim beyond the end of a subclip into material from the original master clip. I can also map a Make Subclip button onto a key if you wish to make many subclips.

Subclips can also be used in conjunction with the Consolidate command offering a simple way of clearing unwanted media from your drives.

For example, use a shot with a bunch of takes in it and load it into the Source Window. Mark an In and an Out of the part of the clip I want to make into a Subclip and with the Cursor over the clip, hold down the Option/ALT key and click on the clip (the cursor will change into a hand) and drag the clip into the bin I want it to go in. I can then rename it to something like _______best take. The icon will look smaller than a normal clip icon. I can continue to go through the master clip and make more subclips.


MATCH FRAME/FIND BIN

Map the button below my Record window and with my playhead over the clip in the timeline click on the button and it'll appear in the Source Window. Make a short cut for this.

Place a button for Find Bin under the Source Window and to a key. If I click on the Find Bin button it'll open the whole Bin with the Sequence in it and highlighted.

IF I WANT TO FIND THE BIN THAT THE MASTER CLIP IN IT, I have to hold down the Option/Alt key and then click on Find Bin or I can map the Alt Key to the button so everytime I press the button I don't have to hold down the Option or Alt key. Drag the Alt key and drop it on the Find Bin key. A little dot will appear on the button.


MATCH FRAME

To maintain the clip’s original IN & OUT points, Alt/Option & click on the Match Frame Button

To Match frame a Slo-Mo’d effect, hit the Match frame button twice

Match frame matches the highest active track


REVERSE MATCH FRAME

The system will locate the current displayed frame in the Source monitor and display it in the sequence. THIS IS A FAST WAY TO DETERMINE IF YOU HAVE USED A SPECIFIC FRAME SOMEWHERE ELSE IN YOUR SEQUENCE

TO QUICKLY SEE THE CLIP IN THE TIMELINE, ADD A COLOR TO THE CLIP IN THE BIN AND TURN ON SOURCE COLORS IN THE TIMELINE

TO PERFORM A REVERSE MATCH FRAME, move to the frame in Source Monitor you want to match and press the button (or map the button to a key)


FAST MATCH FRAME

In the sequence move to the frame you want to match and right click on the track you want to match and choose Match Frame Track


FIND BIN

TO FIND THE BIN FOR A CLIP IN THE SOURCE MONITOR, load the clip into the Source Monitor or load the sequence into the Record Monitor and with either monitor active, choose Find Bin from the monitor’s unscrewing buttons

TO FIND THE BIN FOR A SPECIFIC CLIP IN THE SEQUENCE, Place the indicator on the clip in the timeline and turn on the appropriate track and hold down the Alt/Option key and select Find Bin from the Record Monitor


FIND BIN

Pressing Find Bin with the Source Monitor active will open the bin containing the current source clip and highlight the clip in the bin. If the Option/Alt button is held down when pressing Find Bin on the Record side, the actual clip at the current position, on the highest active track, rather than the sequence, will be highlighted in its bin.


FIND FRAME

Pressing this loads the user to load the tape related to the current frame in the Source or Record monitor. Once loaded into the VTR, Avid will go through the tape and cue up the frame.