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Consolidate video footage function for archive?
I completed a project that references video footage. I want to copy off and archive only the portion of the video footage I used in the AE project and not have to link to a 10 gb file where only about 100mb was used. I don’t want to have to manually copy off pieces of QT footage and then eye match the small clips over the large ones.
Any suggestions? I know about the collect function, but does it also consolidate footage?
steve covello
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1. remove unused footage/consolidate footage
2. reduce project (select the final composition(s) that has everything in it that you need to backup (footage and precompositions). ae will remove everything that is not used in the selected composition(s) from the project.
3. collect files (ae will now only collect items that are actually in use by your comp.) -
AE will collect the entire linked Quicktime file. It will not create a new, shorter, QT file trimmed according to its usage in the comp.
This is why it’s often a good idea to trim footage first, then import the trimmed footage into a comp. In your case, I’d trim the footage in AE, render it as Animation codec and reimport it. Dupe the layer, then alt-drag the new one over the dupe to replace it. To match up the footage, set the transfer mode of the layer above to “difference”, then slide it along in time until the screen goes black. Make the mode normal again. Make sure all keys are in their proper place, then delete the old layer and old footage.
Hope that helped,
Steve -
Thx for the good advice, though I was hoping to not have to do this. Unfortunately, due to the idiosyncracies of the client/project in particular, I had to be prepared for a wide variety of options by using huge source clips.
Adobe — can you hear me?
thx – steve
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