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Media Manager- Good, Bad Experiences?
I’ve got a raid of 5 Terabytes and I’ve got about 145 gigs left, as we’ve been doing a lot of uncompressed HD projects.
Coming from Avid Media Composer, I was able to DELETE any unused media that wasn’t being used in my timeline or projects.
With FCP 6’s media manager, is there a way to delete media not being used, or do I have to use the copy feature to essentially make a copy of everything in my timeline, then DELETE the old media manually?
If this is the case, I fear I won’t even have enough space to even copy/consolidate my timeline, as it’s still pretty big in size.
Any advice or workflows using the media manager? It seems all that I hear are negative things about the media manager! Thanks in advance.
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3 Replies
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The media manager is well documented in the manual.
Page 294 addresses your issue.
mark
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Start with the manual , for sure. Your problems will start when you try to relate what you know about Avid to FCP. Practice on a non-essential piece of something you can afford to destroy.
Media Manager is a major weak spot in FCP. It bears no resemblance to similar tools in Avid, which, although I have never used Avid products, I hear is reliable, dependable, and fairly simple to use because the interface is intelligently designed. None of those apply to Apple’s Media Manager.
bogiesan
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I concur with bogiesan.
I began my editing career on AVID 10 years ago, deciding to jump ship for FCP a little over 6 years ago. I’ve been waiting for Apple to pay some much needed attention to their Media Manager ever since it was introduced way back in version 2.
Incredibly, it seems to be moving backwards as every major release of FCP brings with it WORSE performance from the Media Manager.
Aside from the vastly inferior way of handling media consolidation (when compared to AVID) which is simply a design fault, it is riddled with bugs which makes it’s use entirely questionable for anyone involved with serious and time-critical offline -> online FCP workflows.
One major flaw is its inability to accurately handle time effected material (i.e. remapped, freeze framed, slowed, or sped-up footage). Often times your resulting motion effected clip will be a combination of one, to all of the following:
Clip duration is reduced to one frame; Incorrect speed adjustment applied; unwanted motion parameters applied, such as scale; or the clip may be deleted entirely from your destination sequence/project. Not so much a ‘Media Manager’ as a ‘Media Mangler’. Exporting and importing XML files has seen a bit more stability in my workflow, but is still not ideal.A lot of people, otherwise very much pro-FCP, are understandably embarrassed by its Media Management tool.
Media consolidation is the ONLY thing I miss about the AVID platform, and I literally am preying for the day it works reliably in FCP. Click sequence, remove unused media, the end.
“Don’t believe the hype”
-Flava Flav 😉
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