Is there a way to shorten my media?

[Alan Okey]

[Chris Guevarra] “I’m still having trouble with Media Manager (I’ve put up previous posts about this problem) adding handles to my media when copying it to new drives and I would like to see if shortening, or cutting off, the copied media down to the original media’s “MEDIA END” point would help relieve this problem.
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What codec is your media? If it’s a long-GOP codec like XDCAM or HDV, then you most likely won’t be able to shorten clips with single-frame accuracy.

[Nick Meyers]

hi chris.
so you want the Media Manager to fix a problem that the Media Manager caused?

i suspect your best bet is to copy the media manually from one drive to the other.

but i’ll also add that your media being TOO LONG should not be a problem at all when reconnecting.
you will get a warning, but you can ignore it.

if your copied media was TOO SHORT, or didn’t have enough frames to connect,
you might have a problem.

if the media started on the wrong timecode you;d have a problem.

but if the media is basically the same, except it has more (redundant) frames on the end, you might not have that big a problem.

nick