Customizing a Project or Bin window display

Working with Projects > Customizing a Project or Bin window display

Each clip appears in a Project or Bin window with its filename, file type, and duration. You can customize the kind of information that a Project or Bin window displays, and apply different display options to each individual window.

A. Bin view B. Resize Bin Area button

To change a Project or Bin window view:

Click the Icon View (), Thumbnail View (), or List View () buttons at the bottom of the window.

To sort items in the Thumbnail View or List View:

Do one of the following:

Click the column heading by which you want to sort the items.

To reverse the sort order of column items, click the same column heading again.

To rearrange columns in List View, drag column headings left or right as needed.

To resize the Bin column, drag the Resize Bin Area button (

To customize Icon View, Thumbnail View, or List View:

1 Choose Window > Window Options > Project Window Options.

2 At the top of the dialog box, choose Icon View, Thumbnail View, or List View. The remaining options depend on which view you choose. Select from these options (if available) and then click OK:

Select a Size for the icon that will represent each file in the Project or Bin window.

Select Snap to Grid to make window icons line up according to an invisible grid.

Select Draw Icons to make icons visible. Deselect this option to prevent icon display and make the Project window display faster.

Type labels for the four fields that you can define.

Select a sorting method for items in the window.

Select the fields you want to display in the List View.

To rearrange a Project or Bin window in the Icon View when icons obscure other icons:

With the Icon View active, choose Clean Up View from the Project window menu.

Working with Projects > Customizing a Project or Bin window display

Related subtopics:

Viewing clip information in the Project window

Using the Project window's List View fields