Media Manager Problem in Version 5

[John Pale]

Just like in v4.x, select the sequence and then select Modify/Make Sequence Clips Independent.

If that doesn’t work, drag the sequence into a new project (this makes a copy that breaks the links to the original master clips)

[Tunaking]

Turn off “Include Master Clip” and the delete media will work fine. Be aware, however, that reversed clips may be clipped to a single frame in error.

[Sean Oneil]

I’ve done this a million times in 4.5. Never had a problem. I never had to make the clips independent. I select the sequence, select MM, use the “create offline” option, check the appropriate options (select “delete unused media” and deselect “include master clips”). It just wasn’t working. I’ll try it with a different project.

[Josephine Healey]

What exactly were your settings again? I gotta try this myself, going to be media managing soon. Also if you’ve already gotten it to work could you let us know what you did? Thanks!

[Blub06]

What about this.

Select all in the timeline, create a new bin, paste into the bin, select all in new bin and do the MM deal on those clips. Works for me…

Chris

[Sean Oneil]

I’ll play around with it more. The thing is, you absolutely should not have to create affiliate clips or independent clips to do this. The option “Delete Unused Media” is supposed to take care of this regardless.

[John Pale]

what its supposed to do and what it does are sometimes 2 different things.

read this article for more info

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/FCP_4_trim_dang_it.html

[Sean Oneil]

Yes, but what it does is work in 4.5 and not in 5.0.

[Michaelle Stikich]

Is this still not working for you? What kind of media are you using and how was it captured? FCP will not trim anything that does not have a TC track (like AIFF files). If you imported a bunch of movies, check to make sure they all have a proper TC track.

gir

[Sean Oneil]

I still have the problem. But I think I figured out why nobody else has noticed it yet.

It happens when the original media is already gone. Say for example, I capture a 2 hour tape and cut a 5 minute sequence. Then, for whatever reason, the media is deleted. Now I just want to re-capture the 5 minutes, not the 2 hours. I can’t. Impossible. 100% impossible unless I want to do the Modify->Timecode and change the reel names and source TC.

Go into MM, check “delete unused media” and uncheck “include master clips” and uncheck “include affiliate clips”. Select “create offline”. It doesn’t work.

If I make the clips independent, it still doesn’t work. Let’s say I open up my sequence and select just one clip which is 3 seconds long. I ctrl-click and select make independent. Then I drag that clip into a new project. It doesn’t matter. No matter what, if I select capture it wants to capture the entire 2 hour tape. Making the sequence independent doesn’t matter either.

This is ridiculous. I’ve sent a message to Apple using the feedback forum.