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Getting rid of media
Hi, kind of a newbie question here, but in my old Avid days there were pretty specific ways to delete media from the drive. All I see in Final cut, is a capture scratch folder in Finder – do I delete from there – or should I find a way from within the program.
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If you control click on any clip or set of clips, you can choose “make offline” from the contextual menu that shows up… then trash them that way. Also there is a “render manager’ available in the Tools menu, to delete renders from a specific project file’s sequences. That way you get it all…
Jerry
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Hey Jerry –
‘make offline’ delete does not the clips, correct? You still then manually delete them from the project. But if you hilite and delete a clip from the browser, is it truly and totally deleted?
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N[Scott Witthaus] “if you hilite and delete a clip from the browser, is it truly and totally deleted?”
No it’s not. Only the references in the project will be deleted. Th QT files will still be on your disk. The safest way to completely delete the files is, choosing make offline while Control Clicking the clip. (moving them to the trash or deleting them immediately) after that you can delete the clip from your project. Any subclips made from this QT (wether that be segments in edits or in different bins) will loose their reference to their video-files as well.
Media100/after-effects/Combustion/FCP/Flint/Flame/Inferno..
Thank heavens; there’s a sign of progress here..
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