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Moving unused media
Hi,
I have a very large project that I would like to reduce in size. I used the “find” command to find unused clips. I deselected “in selected sequences” because I have many sequences and some nested inside others and I wanted to find all media not used at all in the project. The find brought up a list of clips in a separate window. Is there any way to reveal all of the clips in the Mac finder?
I’d like to identify the supposedly “unused” media and move it to an external drive. I don’t want to delete it because I’m not convinced that all of the items listed as “unused” are actually unused. I figure if I move the media to a removable drive, I can put it back if FCP flips out without having to relocate and re-dig the media.
Incidentally, I do not have enough remaining drive space to consolidate using the media manager. I tried to use media manager to consolodate to a LaCie external drive, but it never gets through the entire process before it fails.
I’m using FCP 4.5 on a G5 Dual 2 Ghz system with 2.5 gigs RAM.
Any suggestions on how I might do this? I greatly appreciate any insight you can share.
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2 Replies
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You have to select the sequences you want to keep, then select the unused option you’ve found using the find command. Copy the media it finds using the media manager… (right click on one of the selected unused clips to open the media manager, then copy all to the new location. When you’ve checked that these copies are OK, then select them all again from the Browser, right click and select “make offline”.
Jerry
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Thanks a million, Jerry! I must have read the instructions in the manual 10 times but didn’t realize that the copy was to create a project with ONLY the unused clips in it. I compared files and it worked great. Thanks a lot!
Michael
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