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Delete rejected parts in a clip
After marking “rejected” in a clip, how do you actually delete the rejected parts only?
I have one 30 minute clip in the event which I only need 30 seconds of footage. I would like to delete the rejected parts to save disk space.
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You can’t. You could export what you need and reimport it as new media, deleting the old media.
Jeremy
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Why not export the :30 seconds, double-check that it is exactly what you need and then delete the original clip or to be safe, burn it to a DVD or copy to an external hard drive before you delete from your media drive. There’s no way that I know of to do it directly in FCP.
NT
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[Ray Wang] “After marking “rejected” in a clip, how do you actually delete the rejected parts only?
I have one 30 minute clip in the event which I only need 30 seconds of footage. I would like to delete the rejected parts to save disk space.”
Actually, if by “delete” you mean to remove the content itself from the drive – then the others are correct, you can’t do that easily.
The best way I know of to avoid cluttering up your internal drive is to use disk images (or as FCP-X calls them “disk archives” to access your cards by mounting or un-mounting them in the finder. That way your footage (cards) stay off line until you need to work with them and the content isn’t clogging up your internal drive space.
If, on the other hand, what you actually want to do is simply remove the visual clutter from the Event Browser so you can concentrate on working with your “selects” — you can”hide” the clips you’ve marked as “rejected” by going to the upper left corner of the Event Browser window and change the display from “All Clips” to “Hide Rejected.” (shortcut: shift H)
Good luck.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Thanks for the responses. Yes by delete I meant to remove the content itself from the drive.
In iMovie you could mark part of the clip as rejected and there is a function to strip (“Move Rejected to Trash” if I remember correctly) the rejected contents to save disk space.
This could be part of the clip or the entire clip.
I was going mad trying to find that function in FCP X!
FYI Space saving features in iMovie:
https://imovie08.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-use-space-saver.html -
[Ray Wang] “In iMovie you could mark part of the clip as rejected and there is a function to strip (“Move Rejected to Trash” if I remember correctly) the rejected contents to save disk space.
This could be part of the clip or the entire clip.
I was going mad trying to find that function in FCP X!”
Nice feature. We had that in an NLE called Incite back in 2000. That’s a feature people would be happy to say they got from iMovie…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Mitch Ives] “[Ray Wang] “In iMovie you could mark part of the clip as rejected and there is a function to strip (“Move Rejected to Trash” if I remember correctly) the rejected contents to save disk space.
This could be part of the clip or the entire clip.
I was going mad trying to find that function in FCP X!”
Nice feature. We had that in an NLE called Incite back in 2000. That’s a feature people would be happy to say they got from iMovie…
“Well, It’s a nice feature in an environment where one person works on one computer doing one project.
I don’t think I’d like it in a world where the sound guy could “RED X” something – and that would eliminate that clip from the libraries of everyone who might be interested in using that footage for something else. (I’m not saying this conforms to any future for FCP-X – cuz I haven’t a clue – but we’ve been led to believe that this foundational re-build is designed to allow future development of professional features – and building in a “kill this footage globally” command at the single user level might turn out to be something that they’d rather look at as something that has wider ramifications.)
It might be like the “Save As” compared to “Save a Version” discussion in another thread.
It annoys me that they changed it, but I’ve got to believe it was done for some reason other than that the design team just wanted to make everyone’s lives harder.
FWIW.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Bill Davis] “Well, It’s a nice feature in an environment where one person works on one computer doing one project.
Okay, I’m confused. This is the group you keep saying is the whole focus of FCPX. You keep saying that it’s a slim minority that needs all the things that are being discussed on the other forum. So, I give up, which one are you championing?
[Bill Davis] I don’t think I’d like it in a world where the sound guy could “RED X” something – and that would eliminate that clip from the libraries of everyone who might be interested in using that footage for something else. (I’m not saying this conforms to any future for FCP-X – cuz I haven’t a clue – but we’ve been led to believe that this foundational re-build is designed to allow future development of professional features – and building in a “kill this footage globally” command at the single user level might turn out to be something that they’d rather look at as something that has wider ramifications.)”
As much as I’m sure this is going to disappoint you, I happen to agree with your analysis. However, one sort of assumed that you might be able to decide whether or not to use it, kind of like compound clips?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Mitch Ives] “Okay, I’m confused. This is the group you keep saying is the whole focus of FCPX. You keep saying that it’s a slim minority that needs all the things that are being discussed on the other forum. So, I give up, which one are you championing?”
Mitch,
I’m not actually “championing” anything except to keep the discussion open and going. I probably come across most often as a cheerleader, but that’s only because I’ve seen so much mis-understanding and bashing for so long. And much of that hasn’t conformed to my personal experiences where I’ve delivered nearly a dozen FCP-X projects with few problems over the past 4 months. (not without occasional problems, mind you, but without missing a deadline – and nothing different from what I went through with Legacy at V1.
[Mitch Ives] “As much as I’m sure this is going to disappoint you, I happen to agree with your analysis. However, one sort of assumed that you might be able to decide whether or not to use it, kind of like compound clips?
“Well, I’m not so sure this rises to the level of “analysis” – I’d be more comfortable with “supposition.”
I just keep experiencing things in X that make me wonder “why this way” then later on, I run into something that makes me understand the “why” that escaped me before.
Probably chief among those was finally seeing the benefits of working in the “middle” layer of meta-data building as represented by the Event Browser, rather than leaving everything to the “final” layer of the timeline. Once I finally got that, a whole bunch of the new build made a lot more sense.
YMMV.
BTW, Since our paths haven’t crossed in some months locally, happy holidays. Hope all is well.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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