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Organize clips in bins

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Organize clips in bins

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- [Instructor] As you begin to work on more complex projects in Media Composer, it's quite likely you're going to need to create an organizational system, and I have one key piece of advice here, which is, that it's better to have the organizational system before you need it, than to create it at that moment that you've got, for example, a new untitled clip 27, or whatever it is that needs to be put somewhere. It's better to have that somewhere in front of you, it's much easier at the time than to remember where to put it. It's easy in Media Composer to create additional bins. Here, I can click the New Bin button and let's just say we're dividing our content into scenes. We can have Scene One, and, in fact, I can press the keyboard shortcut which is Command + N, for new, or Control + N on Windows. So here, let's have a Scene Two, and let's have a Scene Three. I might even have a Voiceover bin. So, let's have a VO bin, as well. Lots of bins, and you can see from the information inside…

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