• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Media management…

  Posted by Michael Peele on June 8, 2005 at 10:04 pm

  Okay.
  I have many projects for a particular client.
  Most of the projects’ media is independent, however, we occasionally reuse media from a previous project.
  Essentially, I need to delete unused media to free up space without deleting media used in sequences in projects A, B, C and D.
  My plan right now is to create a new project (Project Media Management) and import all of my sequences from projects A, B, C, and D. I will then select all of these sequences, and use Media Manager to delete the unused media from these sequences.

  Am I on the right track?
  Is there an easier way to do this?
  Am I going screw myself?

  Thanks for any input,
  Mike Peele

  Jerry Hofmann replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jerry Hofmann

  June 9, 2005 at 2:48 am

  Sounds right, but never trust any software to delete unused media without using COPY in the process… so if you have an issue, you’ve still got the old media to retry with. Then after checking new sequences connected to new media files, delete the old files.

  There’s really no need to create a new project file first though. Just use the current one, and select “create new project” from the media manager, and it will do the job for you creating sequences that are linked to the new shorter media files.

  Jerry

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