Classroom in a book

Exploring additional bin features
The bin feature in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is helpful when you have a lot of assets. 
It is possible to have thousands of assets (movie clips, image clips, audio clips, and 
so on) in your bins. Bins are very helpful in finding, moving, and organizing assets.
Having multiple bins open at once
In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, you can open multiple bins at the same time in their 
own window or docked to a panel. This makes it easy to drag clips between two 
bins. Start this lesson where you left off in the previous section, or load Lesson 
02-03.prproj from the Lesson 02 folder.
1
Double-click the stills bin you just created. Note that it opens in its own 
window. Be sure to click the bin icon, not the name of the bin.
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 Note:
It’s useful to 
organize your project 
assets in this type of 
bin structure. You may 
come up with your own 
way of organizing, but 
organizing by asset 
type, as demonstrated 
here, is a good way 
to start.

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Practice dragging clips from this new window to other bins and back.
3
Dock the new stills bin with another panel to try a different method of 
organizing your bins.
4
Close the stills bin by clicking the 
x
on its tab. Note that the stills bin still exists 
in the main Project panel.
Finding assets
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 has improved the searching capability within the Project 
panel. The Find tool is located near the top of the Project panel.
1
If your workspace has gotten messy, open Lesson 02-03.prproj.
2
Type the letters 
med
in the Search box. Notice that the movies bin and audio 
bin automatically expand to reveal the clips that have the letters 
med
in their 
names.
This feature is very simple yet is amazingly powerful for finding just the right 
clip quickly and easily.