[Alison Spray]

I don’t know the FCP Media Manger well enough to tell you steps to take but I can translate what Avid would do. With Avids Media Tool you delete the actual media files – and you can select just audio or just video files of the clip. Gets rid of it once and for all. Does anyone know if Media Manager does this – that will give OP what he’s looking for I think….

[Alison Spray]

If you decide to organzie a bin per tape – another idea (using text view) is to number each clip before the clip name/description. Be sure to start 01, 02 rather than 1,2. Later, by clicking and selecting the name column, all clips will sort themselves in order on the tape. You can also sort by selecting the start and end timecode coulumns. Clip number shows up in the timeline too which makes it very easy to find exactly which bin/tape the clip is from.

I once worked as an assistant to a long form editor who only named his broll clips/subclips by number. He then would create master broll sequences for each tape or edit them together based on subject, whatever makes sense. Then you load each sequence and using J-K-L keys fast forward through the footage to find what you want. Sounds weird but it really works. You never miss a shot this way. You really get to know all your footage visually. Your eyes learn to find the good stuff rather than relying on remembering how you named it. I’ve use this technique on big like yours and smaller projects. Good luck, I wish I was sinking my teeth into such a juicy project…..

-AJS

[Alison Spray]

Thanks to those of you that responded.

I worked it out but it is still very weird.

I tried this after reading something in the manual about how you can edit an EDL in any text reader application. I opened Simple Text and imported the EDL’s – everything was there! Even though the EDL’s themselves only showed a few events – ALL events showed up in Simple Text. Split edits, all audio, no problem.

Went to the online test and the Smoke editor opened them up – everything was there too. He used both the Simple Text version and the actual EDL.

I don’t understand it. But there ya go.