Multiple tabs of same bin….why?

[Robert Withers]

There is a preference setting to fix this. The default is something like “open project in new tab.
You can shut this option off. Sorry I can’t be more specific.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Dustin Parsons]

I’m having the exact same problem. Just searched the Preferences and couldn’t find anything that would fix this.

Did either of you find a solution?

[Robert Withers]

Here’s my thread on this from the linkedin premiere group:

Project panel tabs

Robert Withers Pharma-Medical Copywriting and Media

I notice in the Media Browser/Project Panel that the Project tabs keep duplicating, so that I end up with several Project tabs that all have the same same and seem to have the same contents.
Why is this happening and can I turn it off?
I’ve searched through Preferences and several books and Adobe.com without results.
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Denis

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Freelance Videographer/Editor/DVD Author & Certified Legal Videographer, Ad Hoc Video Services LLC

I’ve never run into this problem.

Are you using CS6? CC?
Without knowing more details, I’d suggest you look at Edit/Preferences as a starting point.
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Steven Gotz

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There are three things that can happen with bins. If you doubleclick, if you Ctrl-Click and if you Alt-Click. As you can see in the image I have linked to, you may have the doubleclick set to “Open new tab”. The way I have them is the default, I believe.

As Denis stated, look in your preferences.

https://www.stevengotz.com/images/pref-bins.png
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Ernie Zinger

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What may be happening is that you closed a project with multiple bins open. When you then started a new project, Premiere remembered the state of your windows when you last closed. It opened the new project with all windows in previous positions, but with no media, defaulted to Project tabs.
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Robert Withers

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Thanks Steven and all. I thought this was in Preferences but wouldn’t have guessed it was under Bins. It’s so hard to look these things up in books and resources if you don’t already know the answer:-)
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I have the same very annoying thing happen all the time, particularly on shared projects. I do not see that the preference for opening bins has anything to do with it. If Adobe could warn you that “that bin is already open” it would help.
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Tim Kolb

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The preference for opening bins is the ONLY thing that has to do with it.

If the way you would normally open a bin happens to be the command the preferences have for “open in new tab”, then you create a new tab every time you do this…then, since you really didn’t see this was happening, you keep navigating up, but since you’re in the new tab, the next bin you open creates another new tab, etc, etc.

If the editor doesn’t like this, the editor can easily change the preference to “open in place”.

In Preferences, the General tab, it’s labeled “Bins” (common NLE term for project clip directories since the dawn on NLEs in the late 80’s/early 90’s based on editing film).

Everyone wants some different behavior with almost every part of video editing software, but each person seems to think that the way they individually use the software is the only way it makes sense for everyone…and that’s simply not the case. I use, and see plenty of merit in the current default state of this function, but since I know it’s happening, I leave the tabs I’m opening on the bin I’ve opened and click back into the original tab to see the root project directory, so I end up with each tab showing inside a different bin.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Marcin Staszewski]

Robert, thanks for sharing the thread from linkedin, but I still don’t see a specific solution there…

[Jeff Coleman]

Open your new project.

Click on Window/Workspaces/Reset to Saved Layout

This will give you the number of bins that you had when you saved your workspace layout. Without this step, you’ll open a project with as many tabs open as the last time the workspace was used.

Does that help?

[Duke Sweden]

No. If you open a new project, that project will have no bins until you create them. What’s happening is if I, for example, have 4 bins, “images”, “Sequences”, “Green screen clips”, and “Sound F/X”, and I want to get into Sound F/X to pull out an asset, I click on that bin, and 3 or 4 of the same bin opens. I do believe this is the problem the others are talking about.

[Jeff Coleman]

[Duke Sweden] “No. If you open a new project, that project will have no bins until you create them.”
My bad. I didn’t mean “Open a New Project”.
I meant open a different project–not a new project. That is what Jay Cederholm referred to in his original post.

[Duke Sweden] “What’s happening is if I, for example, have 4 bins, “images”, “Sequences”, “Green screen clips”, and “Sound F/X”, and I want to get into Sound F/X to pull out an asset, I click on that bin, and 3 or 4 of the same bin opens. I do believe this is the problem the others are talking about.”
That is a different problem which I posted about today (08-06-16)
Open in New Tab Makes for Multiple Tabs of Same Bin
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/989536
wherein (for me) when I click to Open in New Tab, I get multiple instances of the same bin and the instances of any bin opened with Open in New Tab increase the more bins I open. So when I click open my 10th bin in the project I have 10 instances/tabs of that bin. That is abnormal/a bug.

I tried to answer the first post in this thread:
“Once I close that particular project and then open a different project with only a few bins it seems to retain my bin/tab settings from the previous project.
It’s terribly annoying to find that I have 5 tabs of the same bin at the top of my window….having to close each tab.” That is normal/not a bug, at least for me in all the PProCC versions I can remember.
I believe my workflow suggestion for that problem might be helpful.