Grass Valley Aurora Edit v.7.0 - Manual (Page 6)

About the Bin window............................................................................................................50
Creating a new bin................................................................................................................50
How to organize your Bins.....................................................................................................51
Saving the Bin position..........................................................................................................52
Working in shared or local mode...........................................................................................52
Viewing clips in your Bin........................................................................................................53
Details view........................................................................................................................53
Thumbnail view..................................................................................................................55
Working with clips in the Bin..................................................................................................55
Searching for a clip or sequence.......................................................................................55
Copying a clip or sequence................................................................................................56
Moving a clip or sequence.................................................................................................57
Renaming bins and media files..........................................................................................57
Deleting clips and sequences............................................................................................57
Changing master clip properties .......................................................................................57
SmartBins..............................................................................................................................58
Understanding SmartBins .................................................................................................58
Creating a Transfer SmartBin.............................................................................................58
Creating a Shared SmartBin .............................................................................................59
Chapter 3: Using MediaFrame to manage media...................................................61
Understanding MediaFrame..................................................................................................62
Searching for media..............................................................................................................62
Setting search criteria........................................................................................................62
Tips for using search criteria..............................................................................................63
Saving a search.................................................................................................................66
Working with searches.......................................................................................................66
Using filters to refine a search...........................................................................................67
Using Explore to bookmark locations....................................................................................69
Using Collections to categorize clips.....................................................................................70
About Collections...............................................................................................................70
Creating a collection..........................................................................................................70
Modifying Collections.........................................................................................................71
Viewing Collection contents...............................................................................................71
Adding assets to a collection.............................................................................................71
Using metadata to define clips..............................................................................................72
About metadata.................................................................................................................72
Adding general information................................................................................................72
Using keywords to define clips...........................................................................................73
Managing custom metadata fields.....................................................................................75
Using custom metadata fields............................................................................................76
Printing metadata...............................................................................................................76
Chapter 4: Acquiring media.....................................................................................79
Using clips stored in the Bin..................................................................................................80
Using a clip source................................................................................................................80
Recording to the Bin..............................................................................................................80
Using files from removable media ........................................................................................81
Importing files........................................................................................................................82
Importing clips...................................................................................................................82
6 Aurora Edit User Guide 08 April 2010
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