does The Avid Media Files have The equivalent of Windows Recycle Bin?

[Michael Phillips]

There is not. Good concept though.

Michael

Michael Phillips

[James Beattie]

In all fairness, it does ask you twice.

Are you using media from projects other than your own? If you have media you share between projects, then I would create a project called “shared stuff” and digitize the things you need to share in that project.

That would enable you to select only the project you are working in when you delete, and suggest the same thing for other users on your system.

[Scott Cole]

It’s a mixed blessing that Media Composer et al do not have a “recycle bin.” There are several things you can do to protect items. First of all, anything that is important should have a lock put on it. Highlight the master clips, subclips, sequences, and effects you want to protect, rightclick and select “Lock…” This will make it all but impossible to delete the selected items. Note that locking a sequence does NOT protect the media only locking master clips will do that. And also, media can still be deleted at the OS level even with locks on.

Or you can take a more proactive approach as I do on 60 MINUTES where we have show elements for this week’s show and show elements that are used on a week to week basis, or need to be held for some future use. I maintain several workspaces on our network storage (ISIS without Interplay). One of them is labeled “Master Elements” and anything and that is thought to be of use over the long term production of the show, whether it be black and bars/tone, graphic animations, announces, or even generic “goodnights” and tosses to Andy Rooney are all consolidated to this Master Elements workspace and then “Locked.” I have one other workspace dedicated to “Future Air,” which is for pieces we’ve worked on that don’t yet have an airdate, including a couple of obits and pieces that were bumped by a breaking piece. Normally, I’m the only one who does actual deletions and I tend to do them on a 3-4 week past “rolling deletion” where I delete only material over 4 weeks old, but I unmount via the ISIS/Unity interface the above mentioned drives so I can’t accidentally delete anything on them. The other post production editors and production people are constantly warned, “If you don’t move it to ‘Master Elements,’ it may not be there when you need it.” I also do a sweep through our bins prior to my cleanups just in case. I know this process may not work for you, but perhaps elements of it may.

M. Scott Cole
Senior Post Production Editor
60 MINUTES
CBS News, NYC
sc6@cbsnews.com
mscottc@comcast.net

[Ronen Gur arye]

The Lock tip is fairly a good one but like u said does not mean 100 % saefty,and the workspaces tip sounds like a good workflow.