https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bruce+Bullis wrote No, there is no documentation. Being built. > Is there a way to edit the terms of an existing Smart Bin via ExtendScript? Oddly enough, no one's ever asked for that. What's the use case? When would that be preferable to making a new search bin, with the new search string? Complex searches = any string you can type in the Project panel search box, you should be able to pass as a search string. Good luck escaping all those RegEx characters. RE RegEx escapes -- difficult but we do it in other contexts all the time. It will work in this context? Shorter explanation: Here's an example of a complex search: Fiction - "Scenes 2, 10, and 119, Pickups only, Mediums and Closeups only" Reality - "Cameras A & D only, from days 2, 3 or 6, featuring character X, in the Kitchen" Documentary - "Interviewee X, 2nd session, themes: danger and escape" You can build that kind of info into tags with greater ease, speed, specificity, and flexibility than you can with bins. Longer explanation.... Big Picture: We effectively replace bin-based organization with tag-based organization. Of course we still have bins, but tend to ignore them. Take the following examples of bin-based organization: - Scripted show: Project is first organized according to the order in which scenes are shot (bin per day's shoot), then re-organized by scene number (bins for each scene). As you're editing you will volley back and forth between these two (and more and more) ways of thinking about your footage, - Reality TV example: There's a master bin for "Shoot Day 1", "Shoot 2", etc. Sub-bins for "A-Cam", "B-Cam", etc; Sub-sub-bins for Characters. (Shows vary but basically they're all variants of this) - Documentary: Bins for shoot days, Interviews, B-Roll, Stock footage, later theme and sections. In all these cases, no sooner is a bin structure set up than you need to cut across the hierarchies to get the clips to satisfy your "need-of-the-moment". So what's really the best project structure? One that's fluid, dynamic, capable of handling an array of questions that are evolving by the minute. This we achieve with a single Search Bin which at any given moment can be filtered to serve the query-of-the-moment -- an ability to filter & sort with sophistication, articulation, and speed. Sure you can generate additional Search Bins and have multiple searches up at once, but that's just icing on the cake (or clutter if you make too many of them) For us this is not a far fetched dream. We've long since implemented, and it's proven itself very effective. Even as it stands now the current Search Bin UI's "All Metadata" with it's 2-search criteria max and a single and/or option frequently covers (or can jerry-rigged to meet) our needs. BUT... ...Once you glimpse the speed, and creative power made available by this approach project management you recognize the power of tagging over bins, and need for search sophistication.
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