Trim Project, Deleting unused media, media manager–NO RESULTS

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Trim Project, Deleting unused media, media manager–NO RESULTS

Posted by A.lee on July 6, 2005 at 10:11 pm

HI-

I’m trying to free up some drive space. Using the Media manager, I am trimming the project and sequences. After I do so, however, the file sizes are the same? Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong or where the deleted unsed clips have gone?

for instance,

orginal: 136 GB
Modified: 120 GB

After going through the steps to trim the sequences, I still get the same amount of space, as if I had done nothing ( but waste the hour or so it takes to “do it”)

1. selected sequence or sequences
2. control click sequences, and choose Make Sequence clips independent.
3. media manager:
“use existing”
check box for delete unused media
check box for handles
choose exisisting file names.
uncheck project section

These steps were taken from a tutorial by Andrew balis, found on Kenstone.net.”Media management in Final cut Pro 4″

Job Van nuenen replied 21 years, 2 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Jerry Hofmann
July 7, 2005 at 4:06 am

How much more media do you expect to be able to delete?

Jerry

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Sean Oneil
July 7, 2005 at 11:36 pm

Are you using FCP5?
Paul Kelleher
July 11, 2005 at 8:02 pm

I have the same problem-and its driving me nutty!! No trimming- no matter what settings I change in MM window. For a 4 min timeline, in one case, i get 1.3 gb of media remaining. should drop to about 860 Mb, I think. I’ve tried this on several project files and NEVER see any trimming.

Paul
Job Van nuenen
July 12, 2005 at 8:39 am

Same problem here, Trying to reduce and recapture an old FCP4.5 project in FCP5. Media Manager doesn’t seem to delete the unused footage. I took the project back to one of out other machines that’s still running in FCP4.5 (my luck that I didn’t have the time to upgrade all the machines..) And MediaManager works perfectly.

I tried the https://www.lafcpug.org/FCP_4_trim_dang_it.html workaround on FCP5 but that doesn’t help me out either.

Any thoughts? or is the Mediamanager in FCP5 crooked?

Regards,

Job

Media100/after-effects/Combustion/FCP/Flint/Flame/Inferno..
Thank heavens; there’s a sign of progress here..
Job Van nuenen
July 13, 2005 at 7:14 am

Yep I’m in FCP5, is ths a known issue? And is it fixed in the 5.0.2 update, Apple provided today? isn’t mentioned in the docs though..

any help would be appreciated.

regards.

J

Media100/after-effects/Combustion/FCP/Flint/Flame/Inferno..
Thank heavens; there’s a sign of progress here..

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