delete clips off drive

[Chaz Shukat]

Highlight the clips that you want to delete, then hit the delete button on your keyboard. You will be asked if you want to delete only the clip itself , or if you want to delete the associated media files, or both. It sounds like you want to clear the associated media from your drive, so be sure you select that option.

There are other ways to delete media from your drives, but try this and I’ll let one of our other creative cows tell you about the other methods.

[Ladymaya]

i am only talking about the parts i cut off the clip
is that what your talking about ]

i dont want to dump the entire clip

[Jon Zanone]

If you are talking about decomposing, it’s a fairly simple matter detailed in the manual.

I do it like this –

Create a new bin. Duplicate your finished sequence (highlight the clip and cmnd/cntrl D), and drag a copy into your new bin. Go to clip>decompose. You’ll get a dialog box which will allow you to adjust your ‘handles’. click OK, and the Avid will create new clips associated with that sequence, but with no media. You can then delete all your old media (assuming you labled your tapes and media correctly) and re-digitize your media to a higher resolution. This is particularly handy when using multicam, and was developed back when storage cost thousands per gig, instead of hundreds.

If you are talking about a ‘crop’ function similiar to Photoshop where you can delete portions of the picture (or in this case, file) you don’t want, it doesn’t exsist. Most of this can be rectified in pre-production – going through your tapes and identifying specific shots you want to use.

Jon

[Ladymaya]

iam running 3.52
decompose can not be found in clip
or anywhere else i have looked
any suggestions

[Chaz Shukat]

If decomposing is what you want to do, and I’m not at all sure that it is, first you have to highlight the sequence that you want to decompose, then you will find decompose in bin menu.

Chaz S.

[Jon Zanone]

I’m not trying to be rude (sometimes I don’t have to work that hard at it, thought!), but have you consulted the help files and / or manuals that came with your system? There is a wealth of information regarding the Avid. There are some pretty good tutorials as well…

You might want to search on decompose, and consolidate….

Jon

[Ladymaya]

I do appreciate you giving me help

but

what makes you think I didn’t use the help menu or books I own

maybe I was searching for some confirmation on what I was reading

maybe you should check if 3.5 offered this option [decompose]

and you didnt mention -consolidate-

you need to remember Jon Zanone

if your going to answer in this area be mindful

its for new users as it states

[Jon Zanone]

Sorry. You can rest assured I won’t make that assumption again.

Jon