Working with Media Bins
A Media Bin is a container for your imported clips. There are two kinds of bins in PluralEyes: Camera and Audio Recorder.
You must use a separate bin for each camera (“Camera 1”) and each audio recorder (Audio Recorder 1”).
Two types of bins
There are two different types of Media Bins. One is for video footage; the other is for audio-only clips.
- Camera Bin. Use this bin for video clips. The video footage will have a built-in audio track — which we call “bad” audio or “scratch” audio — that was recorded by the camera.
- Audio Recorder Bin. Use this bin for audio clips that contain dialog, voiceover work, and other event-based audio syncing that does not relate to music. If you are using a song from a CD or DVD, you will need to copy that file to your drive before importing, since you don't have read/write privileges from a CD/DVD.
Having different bins is important when the synced footage gets transferred over to the NLE. You will have unused audio tracks that are easy to delete. The “bad” audio tracks are separated out from the “good” audio you want to use during final output.
Creating a bin
To add a new bin, click the Add Bin + button, or go to File> Add Media Bin. To add media to the bin, select a Camera Bin or Audio Bin, choose Add Media Files, and any file you select will be added to that bin.
For a step-by-step of using a bin, go to Importing Media Files.
Guidelines for working with bins
Here are the guidelines for working with Media Bins:
- The number of camera bins should equal the number of cameras in your production.
- The number of audio recorder bins should equal the number of audio recording devices.
- All footage imported into a bin must have the same frame rate. Different frame rates will result in an error if the clips are from the same source.
- All audio imported in a bin must have the same number of audio channels.