• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Removing unused footage

  Posted by Tom Hodgkinson on October 13, 2005 at 6:45 pm

  Is there a feature in final cut where you can do the equivelant of a collect in After Effects where a project would be saved minus any unused footage?
  Many thanks in advance cow dudes

  Bret Williams replied 20 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Rozenberg

  October 13, 2005 at 8:53 pm

  I think that you can find your answer in the Media Manager. You can let the manager make a new project without al the unused media.

  Greetings ~ Vincent

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  Bret Williams

  October 14, 2005 at 2:26 am

  Or highlight the sequence in the bin and do a find (cmd+f) and find all unused footage in sequence. Then, in the resulting bin, highlight all the footage and choose make offline, and select to delete it.

  HOWEVER, be careful. If you have nested sequences, you’ll need to highlight them in the bin as well. The “find unused” command ignores nested sequences for some reason.

  And like anything else, double check and make sure the clips you’re about to delete aren’t used.

  Alternatively, a neat trick is to do a “find used” command and label the clips with a particular color. Then, in all your bins, if a shot has been used, it’ll be labeled that color.

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