So let's take a look some of the rest of these clips. Double-click on this second clip in the Project panel Dirty Water and use your J, K, and L keys like I just taught you to play the clip back. Okay, pretty interesting clip. But as we are screening it, it would be a pretty good idea to start to sort these clips into different categories and this is where we are going to use something called bins.
Go down to the bottom of your Project panel and you will see a row of buttons. Right in the middle is a button that looks like a folder and you will see this is a button to create a bin. Go ahead and click it. Okay, you can now see a new Bin at the bottom of the Project panel, let's go ahead and give it a name and let's call it People. Once you are finished typing the name, hit the Return key on your keyboard.
Now the term Bins, actually dates back to the days when we used to actually cut film with a razor blade, and we would hang each individual shot in a Bin to organize it. So we use the same exact term today when we edit on a computer. And we have now created this bin called People. What I am going to have you do is position this below this existing Project panel so we can now pull clips directly from the Project panel into this Bin to organize them. Go ahead and double-click on the Bin you just created called People. You can see it opens in a new panel but it's not nested with the rest of the interface. That's okay. We are going to next it in with the Timeline which is the panel in the center of the bottom of the interface. Go ahead and take your Bin Panel and nest it with the Timeline.
Now in order to give ourselves a little more room in this new bin that we just created, we are going to turn off the Preview area. That's that whole area of space on the top. So go to the fly-out menu of your new bin and select View, then select Preview area to turn it off. So now let's go back to our original Project panel at the top and let's scroll all the way up to the top until we see the clips we were just looking at. If you have a wheel mouse, you can also use that to scroll and now let's take that first shot Boys in Sand and drag it to our new bin. Great. Now, if you look in the Project panel, you will see that there are a few shots called Jim with Patients. There are a few shots with a fellow named Jim; he is actually the subject of the interview we are going to be editing.
Now instead of looking manually for all the clips that are named Jim and creating a bin for them, we can actually use a feature called Smart Search to have Premiere Pro locate the clips for us. At the top of each bin, you will see a field called Find. So let's go to the Find field in the Project panel at the top, click in the Find field and type in the word, Jim, and as you type, it sorts all the clips in the bin and shows you the results.
Now I would also like to point out, there is a pull-down menu to the right of the Find field, go ahead and click it. So you can actually use this to search on any of the different types of data of the clip. For example, if you had entered a log note back in the previous chapter when you were capturing something in on location, you can actually search within those log notes. But for now, let's keep the current selection to search by name. So click anywhere outside of this menu to deselect it.
Now that we have the clip sorted out that have the word Jim in them, let's create a new bin, let's type in the word Jim and hit Return and now let's double-click to open this bin in a new panel. Let's nest this panel to the right of the People bin on the bottom of the interface, and turn off the Preview area. Finally, let's take the four clips with the Jim in them and drag them from the main Project panel down to our new bin. Great.
So now let's go ahead and screen and sort the rest of the clips in the project. Go back to your Project panel and in the Find field click on the X that will clear out the word Jim and show us all the clips in that panel. Great. So before we go any further, let's change this bin to actually see the thumbnails of each clip. In the lower left corner of each bin, you will see two buttons, the List View which is currently selected and to the right the Icon View. Go ahead and click that button.
You will now see thumbnails of all the clips in that particular bin. Let's make these a little bigger. Go up to the fly-out menu for the Project panel and select Thumbnails, Large, great. Now let's go to the clips one by one, double-click them and play them back in the Source Monitor. Remember to use your J, K, and L key combination. We have already seen the Dirty Water clip, we go to the top of the playing clip. So the whole idea here is to see the footage that you have got. So you have a sense of what's available to you when you start editing. And as you are playing back, you will notice a variety of different clips. So let's start to sort the clips with people in them into the People bin that we have created.
So let's take the movie with the Toddler Playing and drag that down to the People bin and also the clip with the Kids Outside the Clinic. And the idea here is to continue adding clips to bins and creating bins as necessary. So let's scroll down a little bit in the Project panel above and you will see that there are some additional medical related clips. Let's make an additional bin for those. Click on the New Bin button, type in the name Medical, hit the Return key, double-click it and now nest that to the right of the Jim bin. We will also want to change this to List View and turn off the Preview area. And now let's drag those clips into the bin. Great.
There is one more category of footage that we haven't created bin for yet and that's called B Roll. B Roll are basically clips such as the Dirty Water or the Village Pan, basically things that we will want to cut away to during the edit. So let's make a last bin for that, call it B-Roll, double-click to open it and you know what to do from here. Nest it in, we will put this to the right of the Medical bin, turn off the Preview area, change it to List View and let's drag our clips down into the bin.
This is a really essential part of editing. Organizing your clips in bins, this way it's going to be very easy for you to find what you are looking for while you are editing. Let's finish up with the rest of the clips inside the Project panel. These go in the People bin and now to see if there is anything else left, let's go once again to the fly-out menu in the Project panel, select Cleanup, this will fit what's left in the Project panel to fill and you can see there is one last clip floating out there Family in Clinic, let's drag that to the People bin.
And now, before we go any further always remember to save your project. So you can use the Command+S keyboard shortcut on the Mac or Ctrl+S on Windows.
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