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Deleting Render Files
I am building a large project and am starting to worry about drive space. Do I really risk anything by deleting my render files? I know I have rendered tons of stuff only to change my mind and then render the change as well. I do have a deadline looming and don’t want to risk anything major…. Thoughts?
FCP HD 4.5
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Should be fine. Shut down Final Cut before you do it. When you open it up again it will tell you it can’t find the render files. Tell it that you’re OK with that and just re-render.
It should clear up some space since you do probably do have multiple renders from the past floating around in there.
Just make sure you go in and erase the QT files, not the folder itself, and you should be fine.
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This might be a little too late, but use Render Manager under the Tools Menu.
Then you don’t have the pesky “render media has gone missing” warning every time you open your project.
When Render Manager opens, it’ll give you a list of folders that correspond to sequence names. The best thing to do is to delete the oldest ones. If you don’t make copies of your timeline as you work or have effects that haven’t been updated through several timelines, it might be more tricksy. The only thing you risk is the time to re-render if you delete too much. Only render time, no rebuilding of effects.
Look at Render Manager. It’ll make more sense to you when you’re lookin’ at it.
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