SuperBin Secrets Revealed

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Avid SuperBin Secrets Revealed

1 – The SuperBin is not a bin
2 – The SuperBin can be enabled or disabled
3 – Opening Closed Bins into the SuperBin
4 – How to reveal bins that reside in the Superbin
5 – Closing bins without closing the entire SuperBin, and thus closing all the bins within it
6 – Getting a bin out of the SuperBin
7 – Putting an already open bin into the SuperBin
8 – How to delete a bin when the SuperBin feature is enabled
9 – The "Open Says Me" feature

1 – The first secret I have to reveal is that the SuperBin is not really a bin.
Rather, the SuperBin is really a place to store bins, so they don't clutter up your screen.
My analogy is that the SuperBin is a corral, pen or enclosure that keeps the animals (the bins) from running all over the place.

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2 – The SuperBin can be enabled or disabled.
A) Go to your Project Window.
B) Click the Settings tab as shown below to reveal the settings.

C) Double-click on the Bin settings to open the window shown below.

D) If the SuperBin feature is not already enabled, click the selection box so that a check appears as in the picture above.
E) Click the OK Button. The SuperBin feature is now enabled.

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3 – Opening Closed Bins into the SuperBin.
A) Click just once (single-click) on a bin icon to open that bin into the SuperBin.

B) Repeat this process with as many bins as you like. The bins will now reside in the SuperBin. You can locate the SuperBin because it has two features that are different from other windows. First, it has the green SuperBin icon in the top left corner, and second, preceding the name of the currently visible bin is the header label "SuperBin" as shown in the picture below.

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4 – How to reveal bins that reside in the Superbin.
There are two ways to reveal a bin that's placed inside the SuperBin.

A) The first method uses the Project Window. Click one time (single-click) on one of the bin icons for a bin that you have already placed in the SuperBin. Bins that are open appear "greyed-out" rather than green, as in the picture below. Once selected, that bin will be revealed in the SuperBin.

B) The second method uses the SuperBin Menu.
Click and hold your mouse button down on the green SuperBin icon (see picture below).

This will open the SuperBin Menu, where all bins that currently reside in the SuperBin will be listed (see picture below). Simply select a bin from the list and it will be revealed. Note that if you have only one bin in the SuperBin, no menu will appear.

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5 – Closing bins without closing the entire SuperBin, and thus closing all the bins that are within it.
If you close the SuperBin, then all the bins that reside within it are also closed.
To close just one of the bins that resides in your Superbin:

A) In your Project Window, click two times (double-click) on the greyed-out bin icon of the bin you'd like to close (see picture below).

B) After double-clicking on the greyed-out bin icon, the bin should have removed itself from the SuperBin. You may now close it and the SuperBin will not be affected.

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6 – Getting a bin out of the SuperBin.
In your Project Window, click two times (double-click) on the greyed-out bin icon of the bin you'd like to remove from the SuperBin (see picture below).

After double-clicking on the greyed-out bin icon, the bin should have removed itself from the SuperBin.

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7 – Putting an already open bin into the SuperBin.
Double-click on the greyed-out bin icon in your project window and it will be placed into the SuperBin.

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8 – How to delete a bin when the SuperBin feature is enabled.
With the SuperBin feature enabled, when you single-click on a bin it opens into the SuperBin and the application will not allow you to delete it because it's open. There are two methods to get around this.

A) Method one is to Right-click on the bin icon of a bin that is not open. If you're on a Macintosh and you don't have a Right-Click button, you can hold down the Shift and Control keys together and click on the bin icon of a bin that is not open to select it.

This will reveal a menu as pictured below.

Now, simply choose Delete Selected Bins and it will be placed into the Trash.

B) Method two is to hold down the Command key (Mac), the Control key (PC), or the Shift key (Mac & PC) and then select the bin icon of a bin that is not open, as pictured below. You may also use this method to select multiple bins.

Now, simply press the Delete key and the bin(s) will be placed into the Trash.

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9 – The "Open Says Me" feature.
When you have the SuperBin enabled you get an additional useful feature. You may now drag clips and sequences from an open bin, over to the Project window, and then drop them on a closed-bin icon. The bin will automatically open and you can release the mouse button to drop it in inside. After dropping the item into the bin, the bin will remain open.

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