Editing with Avid Media Composer 5: The Official Avid Guide

Chapter 12. Managing Your Project and Media

Objectives:

• Use the features of Text view, including custom columns

• Sort and sift clips

• Move clips between bins

• Lock items in a bin

• Use the Media tool

• Delete media files

Organization is important at every stage of the postproduction process. So far, you’ve learned how to use bins and folders for proper project and media management, but in this chapter, you’ll dig deeper to focus on how you can turn your bins into powerful databases to sort, sift, move, and delete media. You’ll use the Media tool to access media across multiple drives and multiple projects.

Customizing in Text View

You’ve already been introduced to Text view in which you can customize columns for display using the Choose ...