All language subtitles for 6. Power Bins Media Tab Kolder Creative

So back when I was using Premiere Pro,
I had this thing

called the Constant Library,

and it was basically a folder
on my desktop that held all of the assets

that I would use consistently throughout
most of my projects.

Things like visual assets,
like maybe a subscribe button

that would hover over my footage and,
you know, tell the viewers to subscribe.

Or sound effects or lens flares, things
like that.

Just things that I would use pretty much
in almost every single project.

The constant library was basically
the only way for me to bring those assets

into each new project
in a relatively quick way.

So when I'm editing the next project,
I can quickly access

all of those assets
because they're already within my project.

Back then, I wish that there was a more
integrated system within Premiere Pro

that would allow me to do this,
but there wasn't.

But fortunately, within DaVinci Resolve,

we have a solution to this,
and it's called power bins.

Power bins allow us to access any media
that we put in them throughout any part

of the editing process as well
as any project within your database.

So let's say
that I'm working on my YouTube vlogs.

What I would do is basically set up
a database for all of my YouTube vlogs

and each vlog would be a new project file
within that database.

Now, when I create my first project file,
I'm going to set up my power bins

with all of my favorite assets,
my graphics, my sound effects,

all that kind of stuff.

All the stuff that I want to very quickly
and easily access

throughout the process
of making any one of those vlogs.

And I'm always going to have quick

and easy access
to all of those different assets.

And as my vlogs continue to grow,
I'm going to accumulate

more assets and things that I'm going
to need more regular access to.

I can just continuously
throw them into my power bins

and they're going to be updated
across the entire database.

So that way, if I open up any project
in that database, any one of those vlogs,

the power bins are going to have

all those assets in them for me to quickly
and easily have access to.

In my opinion,

I think power bins are a huge hack
for editors to step up their productivity.

So we are currently in our media pool
and we can see that we have smart bins

here, but we can't see power bins
and that's because it's not enabled.

So what we could do is go to view

and just make sure that show
power bins is selected.

Once we click that, we see this
little window that shows us power bins.

Now I'm just going to hide the smart
bins, actually,

just so that we can focus on
only the power bins.

And let's
just make that a little bit bigger.

All right.

So let's pretend that I am a YouTuber
that uploads consistently

and I need to have all my visual assets,
sound effects, all in one place, ready

to go for all of my different
YouTube videos.

I have this YouTube subscribe button here.

I'm just going to drag it
into my media pool and we can click on it.

Press Play. Let's watch it.

We could

see that this little arrow comes
in, presses on it.

Now, instead of

just having it inside the media pool,
what I can do is go to my power bins.

Let's create a new bin.

We can either right click and press,
new bin or command shift end,

which is the same in
the Mac OS operating system.

I always just use that command shift
in as quick and let's

call this graphics

click enter

and we can go to our media pool
and just drag that into graphics.

We can also bypass even having to drag it
into the media pool.

We can directly just drag things
from our finder,

our desktop or our hard drive directly

into the folders here in the power bins.

So I have this light here as well.

Let's take that
and drag it into graphics as well.

So I'm actually going to have to drag it
into the media pool area here.

So now within this graphics

folder we've created, we have both light
hit one and YouTube subscribe button.

Now, when I'm in my timeline later on,

I can go to my power
bins here and quickly sort

through all the different folders
that I've created to access

all the different assets that I might need
on a regular basis for all of my videos.

We can create more folders over here,
command shift, and

maybe we make another
one called Sound Effects.

Now we

can see that
Sound Effects is a subfolder of graphics.

Now we could just take that,

drag it out here and now it's own folder
underneath the master folder.

Now, just like I said before,
the thing about power bins is

that they will only stay consistent
within your one database.

So if I open up my project manager
by pressing the button down here

or shift one,
we can see that all of these are databases

here, These are different databases,
and each database can hold

like an unlimited amount
of project files, right?

So we could see in this database one
plus we only have one project file here.

But if I create a new project
here, we'll call this test click create.

When we open up this project file,
we can see that our power bin folder here

is the same, and it contains
all the same assets that we put into it

from our previous project.

Now, if I choose to update it again
here, I have this photo.

I can throw it in there.

And if we press shift one
and we go back to our project manager,

we will see that the power Bins
folder has now been updated.

So it will go into our power bin here.

We can see that within graphics.

The photo has been updated here as well,

so it doesn't matter
what project file you're in.

Whatever you do in the power bins
window will update

across the entire database
and you'll be able to access

all those files in every single project
file in that database.

So keep that in mind.

If you are working on a different database
for each project,

you're not going to have the same access
to the power bins as you would

on different project files
within one database.

Now, we can actually drag media straight
from our timelines

as well, right into our power bins.

So let's say that there's a clip
that we really like.

We can see ourselves using this a bunch
throughout the next couple of videos

that we're working on.

We can just simply take that

and drag it right into the power bin
and it will show up in there as well.

I'm stoked that we can do this that way.

We don't need

to go into the media pool every time
and find the clip there and drag it in.

We can simply just take the clip directly
from our timeline,

drag it right into the power
bin of our choice.

Now, there's one thing I should mention
about power bins, and that's the fact

that we are not able to drag in timelines,
compound clips or fusion clips.

So let's say I'm in my timeline here
and I've created a new compound clip.

Let's say I like these three
clips together and I've compounded them,

which is command E

we can just compound it.

It makes it into one clip.

If I try to drag that compound
clip into my power

bins,
I'm going to receive an error message.

And this basically tells me
that I'm not able to do this.

It says multicam compound clips, fusion
clips, and timelines cannot be placed

into power bins.

Now, myself and a lot of other editors
working in Da Vinci are hoping

that we get an update in the future
that allows us to bring in compound

clips and fusion clips and stuff like that

for quick and easy access
in other project files.

But right now we are unable to do that.

So that stuff
is something to keep in mind.

So another cool thing about power bins
is if you drag a clip in there

that has some effects or some time
remapping applied to it, it's

going to save that data with that clip
so that when you open up that clip

or that piece of media

in another project, it's going to have
those same effects applied to it.

So, for example,
I have this clip here in my timeline,

and what I've done is
I have applied a speed ramp effect to it.

So you can see it's
going from 40% to 103% here.

And I've also animated
a box blur effect on it.

We can see that it's applied here.

And if we go down to this menu
here and select Box Blur,

we can see that we are animating
from this value to this value here.

So there's a couple of different things
going on on this effect.

And if we take this clip
with these effects

applied to it
and we drag it into our power bin here,

we can see that it's applied.

So if we if we double click on this clip,
we can watch it in the preview here.

But the thing is,
we are not going to watch it

with all the effects applied, we can see
that there is a speed change there.

It's a little bit choppy right now,
but there is a speed change.

But we don't see the box blur.

So if we take our clip
and drag it down into our timeline,

we can see here,

I'll just zoom in on it.

And if I go to the effects,
we can see that box blur is applied to it.

And if we click command
ah, command shift, ah,

we can see that that same speed ramp
that we've created earlier is still here.

Same thing
goes with the other project files as well.

So if I press shift one,
I access my project manager.

Let's go back to that test
project that we've created.

Now in here we can access the power bins.

I see that same clip here.

If I double click on it,

we can see the box
blur effect isn't applied,

but if I take this clip,
I drag it into my timeline.

We can see that we have the same effects,
the box blur effect,

and we are also retaining
that speed ramp information as well.

So that could be very useful

to, you know, first apply
the desired effects to the clip, change

it up, make it exactly how you want it,
and then drag it into your power bin.

And in this case, what I would do
is probably at the end of the file name,

label it.

So I'd say box Blur

and speed change.

That way.

Whenever I am accessing my power bin,
I can quickly see,

Oh, this is the one that has the box
blur and speed change effected to it.

You know, it's important
to stay organized, keep things labeled,

label them in a way that will allow you
to find them much easier in the future

because that's the purpose of power bins

to keep you organized
and to maximize productivity.

So it's important to also just stay
organized within the power bins as well.

So there you go.

That is how I use power bins
within my workflow.

I highly recommend
that you guys also do the same.

If you're not already using this feature,
it'll make your life a lot easier.

But that's it for this video.
I hope you guys enjoyed.

I hope you learn something new
and I'll catch you in the next one.