How do I physically delete a clip from within the FCP browser?

[Steve Eisen]

Shift D. Makes clip offline. Choose to delete from disk.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Elijah Lynn]

Thank Steve! That is very helpful. Do you also know of a way to see which clips are being used in a project?

For instance, I have 6 takes I logged and I ended up choosing parts of 3 and 5 and now I don’t need the rest.

Thanks

[Michael Lynch]

The way I would do it is to select everything in the current timeline, then choose MODIFY>LABEL and choose a color. All clips in your project will be changed to the color you choose – including used clips in the browser/bin – if it’s not your chosen color, it hasn’t been used in the timeline.

MacPro 3.0GHz 8 Core – 4GB RAM
FCS2; AE; PS

[Elijah Lynn]

Nice tip Michael!

That will work!

Cheers,

Elijah