THE F O C A L E A S Y GUID E TO FINAL C UT PRO 7 Working with Bins In the old days before videotape was invented, and certainly before digital cameras and computers were used to acquire and edit productions, a film edi- tor would organize strips of film in an area known as a trim bin. These film strips were hung on a horizontal rack and ordered according to the wishes of the film editor. While a lot has changed technologically, when working with a non-linear editing system such as Final Cut Pro it is still crucial to order your material. Otherwise it soon becomes impossible to track down your shots, particularly if you are work- ing with hours of footage and thousands of clips. Final Cut Pro certainly has the power to handle productions of this magnitude! To facilitate a simple way of ordering your material it is possible to create what are called bins within the Browser window. Within each of these bins you can store individual clips. The term bin, as you may have guessed, is taken from the era of film editing.