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Media Management – NOT Media Manager
Situation:
Captured a 25 minute interview as one clip at NTSC DV. Size: 5.5 GB
Edited said interview to 10 minutes. I plan to keep this project for quite a while as it will be added to in the future, but I’ve got all I need of this interview, so now I want to get rid of the 15 minutes I didn’t use and recover the disk space.Anyway to do this without media manager and if not, suggested procedure?
Thanks for all your help!
-Mike
BTW – I work at a college and ordered FCS 2 upgrade – won’t install because I’m currently using the academic version. I’m working on it with Apple, but it’s KILLING me to have the software sitter here unusable!!!!!
G5 – 2GIG DUAL – 2GIG RAM
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Media Manager is actually what you want to use, you can use it to keep only the parts used.
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[Michael Lynch] “Anyway to do this without media manager and if not, suggested procedure?”
Select each clip in the timeline one by one export it as a self-contained file. ENJOY!!!!
or you can use media manager and make life easier.
Put all the clips you want it a timeline.
Select the timeline in the browser.
Select media manager.
Select Copy, Delete unused media, Use Handles (I’d suggest 5 second handles just incase)
Also select Duplicate selected items and place into a new project.
Select your destination.
Go for it.When you’re done, you can copy the clips/timeline back into your other project.
-Russ
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Not trying to be a jerk, but… what is there to work on with Apple? The academic version isn’t eligible for an upgrade. The upgrades are only for retail versions. Are they willing to charge you the difference and just send you a new serial so you don’t have to wait for shipping?
Zak
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[Zak Mussig] “Not trying to be a jerk, but… what is there to work on with Apple? The academic version isn’t eligible for an upgrade. The upgrades are only for retail versions. Are they willing to charge you the difference and just send you a new serial so you don’t have to wait for shipping? “
And what douse this have to do with this forum.
Software companies give academic pricing so that people will learn and get hooked on there software while in school. By the time in school one might need (or more like want) to purchase a copy of FCS they will most likely be far enough along that once another version comes out they will soon be graduating or have already graduated, in which case if they are need the software they wound need a non-academic version. The software agreement for educational software states vary clearly that you cannot use it to make money. If you use a particular software to make money they you can budget into your pricing money to get software upgrades.
So there is no big reason that apple should offer an upgrade to academic software.
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[zrb123] “And what douse this have to do with this forum.”
Sorry I meant to say what douse this have to do with this question?
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[zrb123] “[zrb123] “And what douse this have to do with this forum.”
Sorry I meant to say what douse this have to do with this question?”
And you did…again.
BRAIN FART!
I’ve had my share of those.
Shane
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It doesn’t have anything to do with the original question and everything to do with the extra information Michael posted after his question.
I get what academic versions are for. I just got out of college a couple of years ago and my first job was teaching FCP in an academic environment. I completely agree with you, and I don’t think I said that Apple should offer upgrades on academic versions. In fact I said that they didn’t.
My question was whether Apple had been willing to charge him the difference in cost between the upgrade and retail versions and send him a serial for the full retail version. The only differences between the retail, academic, and upgrade versions and the price, the sticker on the outside of the box, and the serial number inside.
I hadn’t meant to offend the thread… the Micheal said he was “working on it with Apple”, and I was curious what he meant since I didn’t see how there was anything to work on. Return the upgrade and order the full-version.
Zak
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You missed it! Before 2 came out you could upgrade an Academic version to a full-blown Studio version. They did this for over a year. In an effort to control piracy so I hear but that was your opportunity.
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Thanks for the advice regarding Media Manager – I’ve need some understanding of the “use existing” function as well, but certainly Russel’s suggestion will work. Just wish media manager was a bit more intuitive.
Seems that my PS garnered the most attention. I’m not complaining about anything, EXCEPT that I’ve got a fully usable box with FCS2 in it sitting on my desk that I can’t utilize because of the serial #. I called Apple and was directed to e-mail a specific person in the software side of the house – to date, no response to my message. I WILL return it and buy the new Academic version and pay whatever cost differnce there is – I just figure it’s idiodic to ship it back and forth to get the same freakin’ software with a different access code. I mean, Apple is supposed to be soooo customer oriented…
Don’t even get me started about the upgrade offered last year – the discs I sent them got lost in the mail or whatever. At any rate they didn’t recieve them and wouldn’t do jack s@#t for me.
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