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Media Manger in FCP5 not deleting unused media???
I got a project file from an editor – a :30 commercial. I grab the final sequence, go into Media Manager -> create offline -> set to 10bit Uncompressed -> deleted unused media. The new project file & sequence appear -> batch capture -> telling me I have to digitize all 2 hours of media for this :30 second spot.
I did this all the time in FCP4.5, so I know this USED to work, can anyone shed some light? Is there some switch or “new feature” I’m missing? Thanks!
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14 Replies
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Did you “Make Sequence Clips Independent” first?
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/FCP_4_trim_dang_it.html
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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No…. I’ll give it a try, but you never had to do that before. My solution: I just went into a FCP 4.5 bay and used Media Managerlike I used to, then opened the new project up in FCP 5.
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In my experience, you’ve always had to do this.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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try it, it definately works in FCP4.5. No independent clips switch needed.
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People, I started a thread about this a while back and I got the same type of replies. Charlie is right. “Delete Unused Media” does not work in version 5 if the media is already offline. It doesn’t matter if the clips are made independent, even if you drag the clips to a new sequence in a new project – it doesn’t work.
And no, you did not have to make the clips independent in order to do this in version 4.5. Regardless, it doesn’t work anyways in v5.
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Try turning off the Include Master clips. You’ll see the media get deleted. Watch out though for any reversed clips, the delete function doesn’t play nice with them.
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He’s saying that if the media is already deleted (off-line) the proper sub-clips will not be created to batch.
Something is definately screwy with the Media Manager and the Batch Digitize option.
I’ve just been all around this. I tried every possible combination of settings in FCP’s Media Manager and none of them created more clips than I started with and they were all the same length as the original clips.
I tried to batch the sequence with the same result.
I finally exported an EDL, created a new sequence from that EDL in 4.5 and ran media manager on the sequence. Opened that into 5 and am digitizing away. I probably could have just imported the EDL and batched that, but I’m tired and this seems to work.
Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City, OKMAC Dual 2 Gig – 4 Gb RAM – FCP 4.5 – KONA2 – ATTO UL4D – HUGE 320RX – Convergent Designs SD-Connect
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Speaking of speed changes. They are STILL a COMPLETE mess when you try and batch digitize. Some worked, about 10% grabbed the wrong clip or created a still frame istead of a slowdown. Long day chasing around media yesterday.
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[TK] “Try turning off the Include Master clips. You’ll see the media get deleted. Watch out though for any reversed clips, the delete function doesn’t play nice with them”
That’s not true. Of course that’s turned off.
I think the important thing here is that many people like Charlie and myself have used Final Cut for a long time now and know how it works (or at least is supposed to work). While a lot of new users get confused by MM and post these questions, that is not the case here. MM is totally screwed up in version 5.
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Are you guys dealing with capturing entire tape rolls, or has is each clip captured discretely? I know it should not matter, but I’m curious.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com
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