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Media Manager Showing More Footage Used Than Actual…
I’m currently trying to reduce the size of a FCP project by using Media Manager.
The problem that I’m having is that it’s saying that there’s a lot more footage being referenced than there is in actuality.
For instance, I have a sequence that’s a minute and a half long. When I try to use media manager to cut it down to just the footage that’s in the sequence, it tells me that the sequence is using 17 minutes worth of footage.
I’ve deleted all the other sequences that might reference those clips, and have even deleted the raw footage files from the browser in the project, but it’s still saying it’s using 17 minutes of media for a 90-second sequence.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Nick
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Three things.
First is the obvious — make sure you are choosing to “delete unused media”. Mentioning just in case 🙂
Second: If you turn off “include media outside this selection” and turn off include affiliate clips, that may help.
Third: Note that media manager does not strip video from sound clips. If you are using only piece of sound taken from a video clip, it will still include both tracks of audio and the video track in the media managed clip. This can add TONS of useless media. One way around this is to break the video and audio into separate sequences, and media manage them separately. Without audio clips you will find that the video sequence MM’s much smaller! Then you can MM the audio sequence, choosing to compress the video to something tiny and inconsequential like 320×240 photo jpeg at lowest quality, while your sound is still full quality. Then you can marry the two halves back together in your MM’d timeline.
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