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Media Manager and Delete Unused Media
Hello,
I am using Final Cut 5 and trying to consolidate a project on an external drive. I have edited about 10 uncompressed movies into smaller edits on a timeline. I want to delete the unused portions of the movies (of which there is a lot to trim) with Media Manager. Using the “copy” media option, I selected “Delete Unused Media from selected items” with 1 second handles. The modified file size bar a the top does change and is the same size as the original. When I go ahead and copy the session using this method, it just copies the entirety of the movies, not trimming them at all.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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3 Replies
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All you Media Manager defenders out there wonder why we are constantly questioning this important part of our favorite editing program?
How common is this question?
How mangled is the Media Manager?
My guess, Oren, is that someone will suggest you search this forum and that it has been discussed at length in prior posts.
I’m grumpy.
Rich Rubasch
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you might want to post a screen shot showing exactly what settings you used, or list them in their entirety
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IIRC, you need to place the final edited sequences in a new project. Then select them and do a media manager from that project. Have a look at the tutorial at
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/FCP_4_trim_dang_it.html
It’s for FCP 4, but the ideas are the same
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