“Media Manger” in After Effects?

[David Bogie]

Yes, and unlike FCP’s lousy excuse, it really works.
Look for COLLECT FILES in the menu selections and online help.

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This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Carl Larsen]

Another great media management function that is under utilized in AE is the reduce project command.

Say you have a brainstorming session and start slapping stuff together paying no attention to file structure, naming of comps, etc… Before you know it you have a monster project with a bunch of ugly test comps and 1 or 2 ideas that you’d like to keep. Instead of keeping everything in the project to be sure you don’t delete anything required in the few good comps, you can use the reduce project command to trash everything but what is needed for the comps that you like.

Simply select the comps that you would like to keep, go to file>reduce project and AE will remove everything in the project except that which is required for the selected comps.