Locate in Bin

[Martin Knox]

I’m trying to find the clip on the timeline in the bin

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[Walter Biscardi]

if you’re just trying to match up a clip you park the playhead in the timeline and hit “F” to do a matchframe. The original clip will load in the Viewer.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Mike Konstan]

I was wondering the same thing. Avid has the “Find Bin” command which I used all the time and is very handy in big projects with lots of clips and bins. Sometimes you want to find similar shots or alternate takes that might be located within the same bin. Simply match-framing isn’t enough– I need to know exactly where to find the bin that particular clip came from.

My work-around has been the following:

1) Click on the tab with the project’s name in the browser to select it. This will enable you
to search the entire project.

2) Search the entire project by invoking the “Find” command in the “Edit” menu
and pasting in the name of the current clip.

3) Click on “Find All”

4) When the search results window appears, select the file you had searched for and click on
the “Show In Browser” button at the bottom of the find results window.

It’ll take you right to the clip’s location in the bin. Be sure to use “Find All” instead of “Find Next”– Find Next only works if the bin the clip is contained in already happens to be open.

I have my Find command mapped to Shift+F1 so it is easy to search for clips quickly. But it’s nowhere near as fast as Avid’s “Find Bin” command, which you can map to a key and find the correct bin in an instant!

-Mike

MAK Digital Media, Inc.
Orlando, Florida