Accessing the File Browser			Viewing Media File Information
Chapter 6, Browsing for Footage

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Deleting Shots From the Shot Bin

Moving Shots to the Storyboard

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 filesystem. You can view information about the shots in both the file browser and 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.

   

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   Note: You 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.

   

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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.

   Hint: To select all the shots from a folder, select the folder.

   

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4. Drag the selected shots to the Shot bin, and then click to release the shots.

   Hint: You 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.

   

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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

   
   

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

Deleting Shots From the Shot Bin

You can delete all or selected shots from the Shot bin.

Note: Deleting shots from the Shot bin does not delete them from the Storyboard.

1. Select the shots you want to delete by doing one of the following:

   • Click Select All in the Shot bin.

     All the shots are selected.

   • Press Ctrl and click the name of the shot.

     Selects only the shots you choose.

2. Click Delete Selected, and then confirm the action.

   All the selected shots are deleted.

• Click Delete All, and then confirm the action.

  All the shots are deleted.

Moving Shots to the Storyboard

You can select shots in the Shot bin and move them to the Storyboard to create a cut. You can either move one shot at a time, or you can select multiple shots and drag them to the Storyboard all at once.

1. Click the shots in the Shot bin.

   The cursor picks up the shot. If you click more than one shot, the cursor picks them all up.

2. Move the cursor to the Storyboard.

   A yellow insertion marker appears in the Storyboard.

   

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

   
   

3. Click to drop the shot at the insertion point.