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Media Manager Won’t Delete Unused Media
I’ve searched CC and found a lot of people running into this problem, no clear solution.
I’m using FCP 6.0.5 on a mac pro.
I’m trying to archive a project just for my own reference. I want to save only the media needed for the four minute final sequence. I select the sequence, go to Media manager, select copy, deselect include master clips, select delete unused media, deselect include affiliate clips, click on Duplicate selected items and place in a new project. When I look at the media bars I see:
The original: 139.8 gigs
The modified: 126.2 gigs.I’ve tried a bunch of different things, and it’s driving me nuts. I tried control clicking the sequence to make sequence clips independent; I’ve duplicated the project, selected the clips in the sequence and dragged them to a new bin, and then deleted everything else in the project but that bin and the sequence. Nothing works. For some reason Media Manager won’t let go of its attachment to all that media.
What makes it most frustrating is that I did this two months ago and it worked. Which makes me think it must be me, missing some obvious, simple step.
Any help much appreciated.
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15 Replies
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Since it’s only a four minute sequences, you could create an offline that deletes the unused media. Batch capture with handles and then archive that. True, it would be a bit of a hassle but that’d be one way to do it.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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The media was P2, from a hard drive that went back to the client.
A new wrinkle: I was able to archive another project, no problem–same client, same project specs. Still wondering what is going on.
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Weird. You did the same process on another project and it worked? I had that problem recently were I was trying to use the copy feature with “Delete Unused Media” hoping it would chop off the extraneous media, and had the same issue you had. I noticed that if I set it to recompress (to the same codec mind you) then it will reduce the storage needs as you would expect. Since it was an actors reel, and mainly material captured off of dvds anyway, I used that option to consolidate and archive that project.
I assumed from this that when you hit the copy tab, the “Delete unused media” doesn’t apply (despite it not being greyed out).
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Nope, no multiclips. And no big difference between the project I was able to archive and the project I was not. Same types of media, mixture of P2 and screen captures.
It’s not that I can’t work around it, I just can’t leave the WHY NOT alone.
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I had the same problem and discovered that no media will be removed if the clip does not have a reel number. I had to go in and manually insert an arbitrary “001” in the reel column of each clip I wanted to pare down.
That doesn’t mean that I didn’t have to go back in and cleanup the mess created by Media Mangler. The new clips ended up in a temporary folder, not in the original folder, so I had to move them to the original folder. I also had to go through each clip and make sure it was named and linked properly. But a couple of hours later at least I’d pared down that project folder by several gigs.
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thank you for this – legend!
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You just saved me a huge headache – or I should say shortened one, thanks for the tip.
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I have been dealing with this problem for years and just stumbled upon this thread today. Changed my life. Thank you so much! I’ve tried everything… of course, reel numbers!! Amazing.
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WOW DUDE! Thank you for this little note! Saved me TONS of archiving issues.
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