Project Archiving – Any workflows?

[Andy Neil]

You mean with FCP 7? Because we’ve never had that with X.

Andy

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[Bret Williams]

Yes. No Media Manager in X!

[Bret Williams]

What I don’t like about either decompose or consolidation method is that I’m left with JUST the media and logs for the clips that were used. In legacy, I usually didn’t use the media manager, I just did a find unused media command on the sequence, and legacy would find all the unused media and I’d make them offline. So I didn’t care much about trimming and handles. But I wanted to lose the clips that weren’t used, but retain their logging data. I’d like to do that in X, but I haven’t found a way.

[Craig Alan]

got it. Thanks again. That would be useful and have a small footprint.

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[Eugeny Korkhin]

[Bret Williams] “I didn’t care much about trimming and handles. But I wanted to lose the clips that weren’t used, but retain their logging data.”

Here is how you can do it (before 10.1):
1) Duplicate Project for safety and close FCP
2) Hide original project and event
4) Copy original CurrentVersion.fcpevent file, paste into new folder in “Final Cut Events” and launch FCP
5) Make sure project is associated with that new offline event and do Relink Project files

That’s it. You now have only used media in “Original Media” folder, but event contains all the info you had logged.

Hope that helps.