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Trouble with the Media Manager (Deleating unused media)
Alright, this problem just blew my mind. It’s long I know, and I’m sorry, but I want you all to have all the details.
I have a project that runs about 279gb and I wanted to get rid of all the unused media in this project. Also, this project has four different timelines, however none of the media crosses over. I followed the books instructions on how to delete unused media but was a bit confused when it came to the part of selecting the sub-clips. I wasn’t sure if I were to select them in their timelines? Or create a second bin and place them in there. Since I had more than one timeline I decided to create a “sub-clip” bin and send them all over there and do it in one go. After I had Final Cut run the Media Manager and “delete” the unused media I was left with the following chaos.
Only one timeline appeared to have only the sub-clips left with the handles I specified. The other three timelines had some clips missing entirely, while others had the “Media Offline” logo, but yet the media was visible in the Canvas when I scrubbed through it. I checked my capture scratch drive and sure enough, instead of reading 279gb, it now read 245gb. This was a problem since the Media manager window said it should now only take up 24gb. I opened the media manager tool again with the same sub-clips selected and yet it told me that all the unused media was already deleted and it couldn’t not go any smaller that the 24gb it originally predicted.
At this point I tried reconnecting the “media offline” clips and sure enough most of them reconnected just fine. However some of them had their in and out points WAY off from where I had them set, and some other had their video and audio out of sync by anywhere between 7 and 15 frames.
So it appears that something went wrong, but I’m not sure if I did something to cause this, or if media manager just decided to go nuts on me. Has anyone else experienced this problem before, and if so, how did you manage to get rid of your unused media to free up some space?
Joshua
Specs:
Machine Model: Power Mac G5 OSX (Panther)
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.8f7
Black magic Deck-link Card (Video captured in the Black magic 8bit video codec)
Video card: ATI Radeon X800XT AGP MAC ED 256MB -
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Oh, and I forgot to add the version of FCP is the FCP HD 4.5
Thanks.
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> So it appears that something went wrong, but I’m not sure if I did something to cause this, or if media manager just decided to go nuts on me. Has anyone else experienced this problem before, and if so, how did you manage to get rid of your unused media to free up some space?< Sorry, the news is all bad. Media Manager is just about worthless. "Chaos" is the usual result. You can visit kenstone.net and locate an article about Media Manager for some support but the tool remains the dullest and stupidest part of FCP, after, perhaps AutoSelect. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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