Once you locate your shots in the file browser, you move them into the Shot bin and then into the Storyboard so that you can use them in your cuts. Shots in the Shot bin are pointers to the actual media files on the file system. You can view information about the shots in both the file browser and the Shot bin.

To move shots from the file browser to the Shot bin:

1. Locate your shots. Expand the drive by clicking the arrow to the left of the drive letter, and then navigate to the appropriate folder.

   
   

   NoteYou can open all of a folder's sub-directories by Shift-clicking the arrow to the left of the folder.

   The available shots appear in the browser with information about their contents.

2. In the file browser, select Details to view detailed shot information, Proxies to view only the proxy thumbnails, or List to view a tabular text view of shot information.

   
   

3. Click the shots you want to move to the Shot bin.

   Each time you click a shot, the cursor picks it up. If you click more than one shot, the cursor picks them all up.

   TipTo select all the shots from a folder, select the folder.

   
   

   Image courtesy of Hungarian Academy of Film & Theatre, 3rd year

4. Drag the selected shots to the Shot bin, and then click to release the shots.
   TipYou can drag shots directly from the file browser to the Storyboard. When you do this, the shots are also placed in the Shot bin.

   Newly added shots are highlighted. Shots already in the Shot bin are not duplicated.

   
   

5. If you pick up the wrong shots, click the grey area under the Export to EDL button to cancel your selection of shots.

   
   

   Image courtesy of Moviworld / UK File & TV Company / Videolab

6. Use the following Shot bin buttons to switch between Shot bin view modes.

   Click:	To:
   Proxies	Display shots as thumbnails.
   Details	Display shots as thumbnails with accompanying detail text.
   List	Display shots in text format only.

   Proxies	Details	List

   NoteYou can also press B to switch between view modes in the Shot bin as well as in the file browser.