Customizing Your Work Environment

3. Place your cursor in the open column heading name area that you just created
(the row at the top of the bin that includes other headings such as Name and so on).
4. Click the mouse button to create the text entry box, and type the column
heading's name.
5. When you've completed typing, you can do either of the following:
‰‰ Hit Enter or Return
‰‰ Click the mouse's cursor in an open area of the bin

6. If you need to make a correction to a custom column heading, then press the
option/Alt key when you click your cursor in the column heading name region.
7. Now that you have created a custom column, you can add text in the cells by
clicking within that column when your cursor is across from a Clip or Sequence.

Changing an existing Bin View

You can add columns of information and rearrange the columns at any time. You remove a
column from being displayed by selecting its column heading name and pressing the Delete
key. Deleting columns of information that come standard with Media Composer will simply
hide them and no data will actually be erased. Deleting custom columns of information that
you created will open a second dialog box where you can choose to either permanently delete
the column and all the information that has been entered into it, or to simply hide it from view.
Hidden custom columns can be selected in the Bin Column Selection Window at any time.
You'll find them in the bottom portion of the list.

Also be aware that whenever you make a change to an existing Bin View, its name in the Bin
View Menu will appear in italics to indicate that any changes you've made have not yet been
saved. You then have the option of either saving the Bin View as a new one, or updating the
existing one. To save it as a new Bin View, perform the following steps:

1. Click on the Bin View Menu at the bottom of the bin.

2. Select Save As and the View Name dialog box opens.
3. Enter a name.
4. Click on OK. Notice that the name of your Bin View appears in the Bin View Menu
and is not in italics.

To update an existing Bin View, perform the following steps:

1. Press and hold the option/Alt key.

2. Click on the Bin View Menu at the bottom of the bin. A list of existing Bin Views
will appear that includes the word Replace before each of them.
3. Select the one that you want to update/replace.

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