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Chapter 3 Understanding Projects, Clips, and Sequences 31

What Are Bins?

A bin is a folder within a project that can contain clips and sequences, as well as other

items used in your project, such as transitions and effects. You use bins to organize

these elements, sort them, add comments, rename items, and so on. Bins help you to

design a logical structure for your projects, making your clips easier to manage.

You can create separate bins for organizing clips by movie scene, source tape, or any

other category. You can organize bins hierarchically and open them in their own

windows. You can even put bins inside other bins. There is no limit to the number of

bins you can have in your project, or the number of items you can store in each bin.

Bins exist only in project files. Changes you make to the contents of a bin, such as

deleting, moving, and renaming clips or renaming the bin itself, have no effect on the

original media files stored on your computer’s hard disk. If you delete a clip from a bin,

the clip’s media file is not deleted from the hard disk. Likewise, creating a new bin does

not create a new folder on your hard disk.

Project

Bin 1

Sequence 1

Clip

Bin 2

Clip

ClipClip

Clip Clip Clip

Clip

1 2 ... 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 ... 185 186

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Apple Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual Page 32