Media Manger in FCP5 not deleting unused media???

[Joe Murray]

Media Manager has always been screwed up. Even if it worked a little better in 4.5, it wasn’t that great. The EDL exporter has never really worked correctly either. Try exporting a Source Sort EDL and you’ll see what I mean. I have to do this all the time for telecine sessions, and I have to open the EDL in MS Word and manually resort the events in the EDL correctly.

There was a lot of noise made on the forums over the last year about Media Mangler disfunctionality, but it seems like Apple either doesn’t care or has some serious database issues with FCP that they can’t figure out how to fix.

Joe Murray

[Sean Oneil]

I’ve heard all the complaints about MM. Personally, I never had any issues with it. I think it’s people not using the workflow Apple intended.

This is not the same thing and I can’t stress that enough because I know people are thinking “same ole, same old”.

I don’t work with EDLs much so I couldn’t say.

[Nick Meyers]

i’ll confirm that FCP5’s MM wont delete unued from an offline sequnce, on;y from a sequnce with media atached.

just like in FCP3.0.

they fixed that in FCP3.01, i think, so i hope this gets fixed, but how did it come back???

nick

[Sean Oneil]

I’m getting sick and tired of this. This bug has really *&%$ed us up here.

Today we had to rebuild an old project that has been offline for a while. It consited of five 2-hour long source masters. The piece was about 2 minutes long. Guess what? We had to redigitize the who *&%$ing five hours. Absolutely unacceptable!