Thank you Shane,
Thankfully that is a process I’m familiar and comfortable with. Yet the way I have my project files organized is one project file per theatre, with several timelines, one for each theatrical show. I might want to keep the entire footage from one production and not another.
If this continues to be an issue I will simply create a new project file for every show. I was just trying to apply another level of organiziation, which predictably made things less organized.
I was just wondering whether I could apply media manager on a clip by clip, or timeline by timeline basis, without creating a copy and applying changes across the entire project file.