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Stay organized in your project

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Stay organized in your project

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- [Instructor] Now that we have a blank project ready to work with, we can begin to get organized. As you'll notice, I'm saying let's get organized, before we have any media here. As we work on more and more complex projects, both project and file system organization becomes more and more critical. And if you're already an experienced editor working on another system, you'll know that feeling, 2 o'clock in the morning, where you're sure there's a shot somewhere there, and you can't remember where it is. So I'm going to begin by making some useful bins. First of all, I'm going to make a Sequences bin. Let me take off my Caps Lock here. And, I'm going to click New Bin again, and I'm going to make a bin that I'll call Ingest, 'cause we're worried about where we're going to put the content later. The keyboard shortcut to make a new bin is Ctrl or Command + N, for new. So I'm going to use that now to make a, Selects bin, these are the clips that I'm really interested in. And we'll press it…

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