Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1454)

Chapter 8 Examples of How to Use the Media Manager 103
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Example: Removing Portions of Media Files
After Creating Subclips
A common logging and capturing workflow involves capturing each tape to a single
media file, breaking the master clip into subclips, and then using the Media Manager to
create individual media files for each subclip. In this example, the Media Manager
creates a media file for every subclip in your project. Portions of your media that are
not referenced by subclips are not turned into new media files, and thus unnecessary
media can be eliminated by this process.
To eliminate portions of a media file not referenced by subclips:
1 In the Browser, delete the original master clip that your subclips were derived from.
Note: When you create a subclip, it becomes its own master clip. A subclip does not
refer back to the original clip it came from, but both the original clip and the new
subclip refer to the same media file.
Because the Media Manager tries to preserve media referenced by clips in your project,
it is necessary to delete the original master clip (which refers to the entire length of the
media file) so only the subclip media will be preserved.
2 Rename your subclips with descriptive names.
When the Media Manager creates new media files, they will be named after these
subclip names.
3 Select all of the subclips that you created from the master clip you just deleted.
Important: The media for any subclips you don’t select will be lost. To be safe, you
can move all the subclips whose media you want to retain in one bin, and the subclips
you don’t want to preserve in a different bin. Then select the bin of subclips you want
to preserve.
4 Control-click one of the selected subclips, then choose Media Manager from the
shortcut menu that appears.