Grouping Media Items using Review Sections

It is occasionally helpful to organize media items in a Review into groups. These are called Review Sections, and they can be collapsed or expanded, reordered, renamed, and removed.

Note: A media item cannot appear in more than one section.

Adding Sections

Review sections can be created, updated and removed in the Project Overview and from within the Review Player. (Most examples below are shown in the Review Player, but the controls in the Reviews tab of the Project Overview are materially equivalent.)

Initially, all media items in a Review appear without any grouping.  Above the playlist is a Sections menu, where you can add a section. 

As soon as you add the section, there will be section headers for the new group, and for a Default Section containing all of the Review's media items.

From here, you can give your Section a title and drag items into it from the Default Section or from any other sections you have already created.  This includes dragging multiple clips selected using the Command/Alt key, or the Shift key (for ranges).

Alternatively, you can create sections from a selection of clips using the Action menu (three dots) in the upper right corner of any of the selected clips (or by right-clicking any selected clip):

The new section will automatically contain the clips from the selection, and all you need to do is give the Section a title.

A count of items currently in the Section will appear in parentheses, after the Section's title.

Uploading Media into Sections

When uploading new media items using drag and drop, the items will currently upload to the Default Section.  Once upload is complete, they can be moved into the other sections.

Alternatively, you can upload directly into a Section by using your operating system's file dialog.  To do so, move the cursor to the Section header and a plus icon will appear next to the action menu near the right-hand end.

Collapsing and Expanding Sections

Clicking on the triangle at the far left, or anywhere on the Section name, will collapse or expand the section:

You can collapse or expand all sections at once using the Action menu, or by Shift+clicking on any Section name.

Removing Sections

From the Action menu in the Section header, you can remove a Section. Clips will be returned to the Default Section and the Section will be deleted.  If you delete the last custom Section, the Default Section header will disappear until a new Section is added.  Media items will not be removed from the Review.

In the Sections menu, the Remove All Sections menu item will remove all Section headers, leaving all media items together in the review. Media items will not be removed from the Review using this action.

Re-Ordering Media Items and Sections

You can drag a Section header above or below other Section headers to reorder them.  The Default Section, however, is always at the bottom.

You can reorder media items within a Section by dragging them (from the left-hand edge in List view), including multiple selections. 

You can drag media items between Sections by dragging them from the left-hand edge, including multiple selections.

Renaming Sections

You can rename a section by double-clicking the title in the Section header, or by using the Action menu.