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Managing Media.
Hello,
I’ve switched from an avid system and have become very happy with my FCP system. One thing I have not been able to figure, (I’m sure its easy) is how to easily manage my media. Specifically, if I digitize a clip and than decide I do not need this clip I have noticed that deleting the clip from FCP does not delete the source medea that is on the drive. AVID had the media manager that I could delete all related files from my drives. How can I quickly choose a clip in FCP and delete it along with the associated media that is on the drives. Essentially getting rid of all traces of that clip?
Thank you,
Rich Sims -
3 Replies
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Hi there!
Welcome to FCP!!! There are a lot of different ways to manage media in FCP, but to answer your specific question… control click or right click on your clip in the browser and select “Make Offline”. This will give you a dialogue that makes sure you didn’t do something you didn’t mean to. Here you can do several things:
1) Remove the link that FCP has to the clip making it appear offline but leaving it in your Capture Scratch folder.
2) Remove the link to the clip and put the clip in the trash.
3) Completely delete the clip from the disk. (Cannot undo this. It’s gone forever!)
Something you might remember from the Avid days is all of the extra render files that you didn’t need hung around until you ran out of space. (Avid might have fixed that by now) Final Cut gets rid of the render files that you don’t use anymore!
Also, FCP has an inherent way of organizing media files that is very useful if you understand it and use it to its potential. I would encourage you to look at that and figure out what works best for your set up.
Trent
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PixelGuy is right about deleting a clip(s) by making it offline. However, there is really no way to clean a drive of media within FCP. There is no media manager like Avid. Yes, you can delete your scratch disk folder but you may end up deleting things you may need.
It is basically Finder type media management with couple of tools to help you out on the way. It is up to you to be organized and discipline in order to prevent instanity. It is very open ended. Good on some part but just horrendous on large projects, especially collaborative ones where you have multiple machines, editors, AEs and producers.
[PixelGuy42] “Something you might remember from the Avid days is all of the extra render files that you didn’t need hung around until you ran out of space.”
Actually you could always delete unrelated precomputes with Avid as far as I can remember. All you have to do is select media relatives and reverse selection.
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Thanks guys,
I actually just tried pixelguys suggestion and you can indeed move the media to the trash or delete altogether. These options don’t show until you initiate the command from the menu.
One more headache averted because of the fine people at creative cow.
Take care,
Rich
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