looking for vids in bin

[Grinner Hester]

if you are needing a seacrh by keyword feature, your making things hard on yourself, media-management-wise.
If you create a bin for each kind of clip, you can usually have all of your clips visible within a project… not even so much as a scroll needed. I make one for my sequences, one for my grafiks, one for audio, one for b-roll, talkin heads, ect. Always keeping things in list mode, I can see all clips all the time, creating a new bin should that one start requiring scrolling. I find this keeps all of my recipe on the table in easy view as I cook.
…and this will end your need for keyword searches.

[Lizkateland]

thanks for your response…i understand the need for media management and have done so…however, for a 90 minute documentary, with many, many bins(so that things ARE organized)i was just hoping that there was a quick an easy way to search a keyword, to search within ALL bins…the probhlem is remembering in which bin a particular clip is located, and that what i was trying to find out – guess its not possible – thanks

[Michael Hancock]

The only thing I can think of is to export all of your bins at text files, tabs delimited.

Open the bins in Excel and use the search function there to look for the word(s) you want. When it highlights it, note what bin it’s in and tab back to your Avid and go to that bin.

Otherwise, there isn’t a search in Bin function (would be nice though).

Michael.

[Michael Mcintyre]

I realize this is, now, a bit dated but I’ll post anyway. Maybe there was some confusion since you specified ‘in a bin’. All your clips are in bins – you just want to be able to keyword search through a mountain of footage for a big documentary.

Just use ‘Custom Sift’ in Media Tool. Launch Media Tool w/ master clips for current project (or all projects if your stuff is captured elsewhere too). Type in what you’re looking for (i.e. ‘sunset’, ‘building’, whatever) and just leave it for ‘Any’ in the columns area. If there’s nothing for that search, nothing shows up and the Media Tool is empty. You can choose ‘Show Unsifted’ and all the clips fill it up again. Try another sift.

Once you do find a clip you’re looking for, open it in the source side and close Media Tool. As long as the clip is from a bin in that project, you can do ‘Find in Bin’ and it will load up that bin with the clip selected. ‘Find in Bin’ won’t work if your sift in Media Tool was for ‘All Projects’ and you haven’t yet opened that bin in your current project. You can still use the clip – it just won’t find the bin for you, saying “That bin is not in this project” or something like that. Take note of the bin name and open it in that project if you think you’ll be using it.

I hope this helps and not too far off. I’ve had some massive projects with footage pulled from other projects and footage captured by pa’s who weren’t quite ‘there’ yet leaving media all over the place. Sometimes, they’d get the clip name right but not in the proper bin.