[Pixelguy42]

Hi there!

Welcome to FCP!!! There are a lot of different ways to manage media in FCP, but to answer your specific question… control click or right click on your clip in the browser and select “Make Offline”. This will give you a dialogue that makes sure you didn’t do something you didn’t mean to. Here you can do several things:

1) Remove the link that FCP has to the clip making it appear offline but leaving it in your Capture Scratch folder.

2) Remove the link to the clip and put the clip in the trash.

3) Completely delete the clip from the disk. (Cannot undo this. It’s gone forever!)

Something you might remember from the Avid days is all of the extra render files that you didn’t need hung around until you ran out of space. (Avid might have fixed that by now) Final Cut gets rid of the render files that you don’t use anymore!

Also, FCP has an inherent way of organizing media files that is very useful if you understand it and use it to its potential. I would encourage you to look at that and figure out what works best for your set up.

Trent