Grouping mode
Use grouping mode to view all the clips in a catalog by tape, bin, or other picklist property. Select the property to group by from the drop down list at the left of the window, then select the particular item to view.
- Press the grouping toolbar button to toggle grouping on and off (you can have one or two grouping columns, shown at the left of the window, or turn off grouping altogether).
- Select the property to group by (eg. 'Date') from the drop down list. A list of all the distinct dates recording dates contained in the catalog is then shown.
- Click on a value in that list. Only those clips from that date are shown.
- Grouping is also available via the tree navigator.
More advanced operations are possible:
- With two grouping columns you can quickly correlate two sets of grouping properties, for example find all the tapes which contain recordings at 32kHz, or see the range of dates covered by stills in a particular folder.
- To rename an entire existing tape or bin name, click on that item in the grouping list and type in a new name.
- As a convenient way of editing many clips in one go you can drag and drop selected clips onto another tape or bin name to change that value for all of them.
- You can create your own user-defined grouping properties in the User Columns Preferences tab.
- Similarly, you can select which metadata columns to group on in the Metadata Columns Preferences tab.
Multi-grouping attributes can also be configured for user-defined columns via Preferences. This feature is designed for things like keywords, where more than one keyword might apply to the same clip. When grouping all the distinct keywords are shown and the same clip might appear under more than one keyword.