Deleting unused media – keeping the clips

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Shannon,
In “Media”, you need to set COPY. The portion of the clips in your sequence will be copied to the location that you set. You can set handles.
In “Project”, you have to set “Duplicate existing items and place in to. a new Project”.
Once you have checked that the new project works, you need to delete the original media.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Michael Gissing]

One thing that freaks people out is the way Media Manager uses the term “delete unused media”. It actually means make new clips with just the portion used in the sequence (plus handles should you choose to do so). So as Rafael says, make a copy to a new folder with “delete unused media” (plus handles) and then you can delete the old folder. That leaves just the final project plus media with shots split up + handles. This does work and crunches down to the bare minimum.

Thankfully it doesn’t actually delete any media when you use this option as most of us don’t want that behaviour. So it is working correctly but is poorly understood as its descriptor is crap.

[Shannon Bedford]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I’ve given it a test but the problem is, it’s not allowing me to keep the empty clips.
My aim is to finish with a project in which the unused clips still appear in the browser but with media offline. This would enable me to go back and batch digitise those unused clips if I need to make a different version of the video in the future.

Perhaps media manager is not the best tool for what I am trying to do. Is there a way to show or select all unused clips in a project? And if so, once I have selected all the unused clips, can I delete the media from those within FCP?

I have another question regarding what you said about going back and deleting the original media. When I delete a project, do I have to go into my Capture Scratch and Render folders and delete the appropriate folders? Would I need to delete anything in the other folders such as waveform cache?

Cheers,

S Bedford, Western Australia

[John Pale]

[Shannon Bedford] “‘ve given it a test but the problem is, it’s not allowing me to keep the empty clips.”

Just keep the original project file as well. You can batch digitize the clips later, if you need them.

[Shannon Bedford]

Great! I’m really getting somewhere now. My hard drive is going to be very happy by the end of today.

Could you please also answer my other question above about deleting the media?

Thanks heaps

S Bedford, Western Australia

[Michael Gissing]

The advantage of MM creating a new project with just the online media is that you don’t get the nag screen telling you there is offline media every time. As John said, the original project file gives you all your original logged and captured media which should always be backed up as well.

I only delete capture scratch and render files. They are the biggies. I haven’t been fussed with thumbnail and waveform caches.

[Shannon Bedford]

“The advantage of MM creating a new project with just the online media is that you don’t get the nag screen telling you there is offline media every time.”

I kinda like the nag screen – it screams “Drive Space!” something we all crave. But, keeping the original project without media is a great solution – don’t know why I didn’t think of that.

Thanks everyone, you guys are fantastic. If you weren’t on the other side of the world I’d give you all something from my chocolate drawer.

Cheers,
Shannon

S Bedford, Western Australia

[Michael Gissing]

I am in Tasmania, but I guess WA is on the other side of the world even to most Australians 🙂

[Shannon Bedford]

Ahh I should have recognised your photo.

Still, you are from overseas which makes you exotic.

-Sandgroper

S Bedford, Western Australia