Lightworks: Organizing Media Tutorial (Part 4) Video Lecture | Lightworks Video Editing: Basics to Pro - Video & Sound Editing

hey guys david here got another way it
works tutorial for you this one is on
organizing your media using bins and
racks within the lightworks beta program
so you get started here you can see
we've picked up from where we left off
pretty much in our last tutorial which
was the timeline basics within light
works over here you can see we have a
scene open which is our edit window and
this is edit 7 in our last video but we
took the liberty of renaming it to scene
7 now when we finish the edit here we
can go ahead and turn off the record so
that this window turns from red to a
purplish color and then we go ahead and
pop out the title here which is just
going over here popping that pop out
tile excuse me now I can just go ahead
and close the Edit window then you can
see I have seen seven open right down
here which is just in a little thumbnail
and if I wanted to go ahead and preview
that it can open that up and using the
space bar I can preview it you can see
we have our slow-motion shot here and go
forward a little bit we're still using
slow motion and you can tell the audio
is messed up a little bit and then we go
to the N and you can see we have our
next scene which is also part of seen
some so I can go ahead and minimize that
and make that into another pop out title
and basically you see over here we have
two bins which includes scenes one at
six scene seven is over here and then
cna isn't another bin now this is a very
convenient way for organizing your media
and we showed you a little bit about how
to create a new permanent bin in our
last tutorial however i'm going to go
ahead and cover that once more so I want
to make a scene 7 bin which is going to
go between scenes one and six and scene
eight do that I go over to the tool box
on the left hand side of the screen go
down to create a new bin click on that
tool in the toolbox and then it shows
this grid type window which has nothing
in it was empty it has this blue title
it's has been now for one change that
title I just go over here highlight the
word bin and then I can change that
scene 7 and then what happens is you see
it's still a blue title now in order for
that to be a permanent bin it has to
have a green title to do that you go
over to the settings here you click on
go over the permanence click on
permanent instead of transient transient
is basically temporary permanent is
obviously a permanent bin and that
prevents you from accident
leading it because you can always go
back and recover that bin so now I want
to go ahead and drag this thumbnail
video clip into the scene 7 bent just do
that by dragging it holding it down
dragging it over a top and you see the
bin is highlighted blue when that
happens just drop it into place and then
you can go ahead and minimize this as
well and then we have scenes 16 in one
bin scene seven and then scene eight
another bent and now basically I want to
show you what happens if you
accidentally closed a bin now I'm just
going to start up a new bin right here
just to show you the difference between
a permanent and temporary been sending
this one temp so it's easy okay now I
minimize that so now they all look the
same now if I close a temporary bin and
the scene 7 bit now to get back to scene
7 bin or the temporary bin we have to go
over here to the tool box click on
search go over to the tab that says
groups now we're looking for a bin so we
want to make sure we have been
highlighted over here it should be done
by a green dot now we're looking for the
bin that's that was named temporary so
we're just going to put in the name
which was temp and click on search okay
actually this is a permanent bin so it
did not work um what did I do
my bad sorry about that all right now
I'm gonna close this go ahead and search
temp nothing comes up because it was a
temporary bit i accidentally made it
permanent I guess I don't know what
happened but anyway this is what's
supposed to happen you're supposed to
get a boxer pups his no matches found on
because that was a temporary been and we
were searching for for a bin that we had
closed in cincy was temporary were not
able to get that back so we're gonna go
ahead and close this search box it came
over here click on groups again we're
still searching for been so we want to
have that checked off then we're going
to put in scene 7 which is the other the
other been that we got rid of so we're
going to go ahead and click on search
and then the seeming seven bin pops up
with our media inside of it now this is
a permanent bin so that's why that
happened when it's a temporary bin it
does not pop back up it's gone forever
so you want to definitely be careful
about that you ought to be careful what
you put in the permanent or temporary
bins and you want to try to make sure
get to the habit of making everything a
permanent bin so it's searchable and
recoverable so we're gonna go ahead and
minimize that scene 7 bin okay so
basically when we have all this stuff
open it's kind of a mess right as you
can imagine but lightworks has a lot of
different tools that you can use to
manage your media very easily and to
make this mess into something that's
actually organized because as you can
imagine when you have your different
edits open like this its kind kind of a
mess your whole screen is taken up if
you have multiple scenes open um like
say you have another edit open over here
you can obviously tell that this could
become quite a mess quite easily um so a
great way to organize everything is some
is simply sorry my bad um to make it all
of these edits into once you're finished
editing you guys all your media
organized in your timeline you have
everything but the other transitions
done which we can get to in those
tutorial you wanna just go ahead over to
the side here you want to turn off the
record button you go over here to pop
out tile and then that makes it into
this little thumbnail tile and then you
can go ahead and close all your edits
you can close your other edit since
they're popped out and then you
have your scene 7 been but she'd drag
this over here yeah um it deletes the
duplicate media and then you can
obviously see you can minimize these and
now what you can do even though you have
all these bins over the place so it's
still not perfect you go over to the
side here under your toolbox go over to
create a new rack just click on the rack
to all right there and it opens up a
rack now what you have to understand is
that bins represents a a container or a
like a little bin on that you'd be
storing say film reels or DV tapes if
you were actually on a film shoot so
that's basically the bin is is that it's
something that you store individual
video clips within so I don't know if
you're following me with that analogy
but I'm a good friend of mine told me
that and I think it really does does
make sense basically what a rack does
then a rack would combine all your bins
so Iraq I guess would be something like
a shelf which you would have bins on
which have stuff within them so just
think of any room that you've organized
in your own house you have a shelf
probably with bins on it and then within
that you have random stuff within those
bins um so that's basically a rack is
now there's a lot of similar options for
actually there's a lot less options for
rack stand bins but there are a couple
up here you over to the rack permanence
and you definitely want to get into the
habit of making these permanent racks
for the same reason as the bins you can
search for these and recover them if
you've accidentally closed them however
if they're permanent that's not or if
the temporary that's not going to happen
so you can rename these racks so you
want to make this into part 1 say i'm
working on a short film i have all these
scenes which are part of part 1 of my
video and i want to combine them so it's
easy to get to after i finished part to
do that you can either open up a new
room but then you're going to have a
mess in both rooms or you can just drag
all your video clips that correspond
each scene into your individual seen
bins which we've done over here and you
can drag these bins within that
permanent part 1 rack you just do that
by dragging them and dropping them just
like you do that add a video clip to
your individual bins you strag it in and
now you can rearrange these by going
over here I don't know X you cannot do
my bet
just rearranging by dr dragging them
that was within the bins you can
rearrange media within bins by going
over here going over to sort by and then
you can change it to sort by the name or
the date date date date date date yeah
data or you can sort by the date then
you can minimize it and drag it back
into your rack so that's definitely the
way that I am going to go about
organizing media within light works I
think it really does make a lot of sense
and it really does help so you can drag
over your part one rack over to the side
here and then say this is a scene that
I've edited right I've opened this up
open that up I have an edit done then
say okay this is going to be part 2
scene right all right maybe go ahead and
close that yeah pop out the tile here
close the Edit and then what I'm going
to do is open up a new bin oh my bad you
been and I'm going to name this scene
one as well get dragged in by quote for
actually this is for whatever and then
I'm going to make this opponent bin
which again oh that's why I did that
whenever you rename a bin it makes it a
permanent bin as well so that's another
way of going about doing it but just
make sure the title style turns green
once you click out of it now you can go
ahead and minimize this and then what
I'm going to do is make a new track
which is going to be titled part two
now I'm going to drag this scene 3 in
the part 2 rack minimize that now you
have part 12 of your short film you can
start a new rack which I'm gonna call
short film I'm thinking this is going to
work but I'm not entirely sure oh yes it
does work perfect but so I thought it
was going to do you can drag in
different racks within racks so then you
have your entire short film say we call
this winter war in honor of our new
short film that's coming up soon we're
going to be editing it or shooting it
next weekend I believe as long as the
weather doesn't do anything screwy like
this last weekend now you can see you
have your entire store film organized
within this one rack you have your main
rack which is two racks with inside that
and if you open up these racks you get
all your different scenes inside of each
one and when you open up those you get
all the clips that are part of those
scenes within that bent so I'm hoping
that this helped do a little but kind of
get too used to the organization methods
that are available to you within the
lightworks beta program and I hope that
these tutorials are really helping you
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