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Sifting bins

Sifting bins - Media Composer Tutorial

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Sifting bins

- [Instructor] While we're looking at the bin with a number of clips in it. Another feature deserves a special mention. If I right-click on this bin, you'll notice there's a Sift option. You can right click on the background or a clip. It doesn't really matter. And I have the option here to Sift Bin Contents. This is a little bit like the filter control at the top right-hand corner, but it's a little bit more comprehensive. You can choose multiple Criterion and you can set a second set of Criterion and you can specify which column, that's which heading you're going to search in to define which clips should be displayed and which should not. This is a surprisingly useful feature, but only really when you're working on a larger project with lots of clips in it. And here's an example, I'm going to type in the word slow as it appears in any column. And I'm going to keep the criterion as contains rather than begins with,…

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