Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 377)

42 Part I Organizing Footage and Preparing to Edit
Creating Independent Media Files From Subclips
After Capturing
When you capture each source tape as a whole media file and then break it into
smaller subclips, you will inevitably discover a number of subclips that you don’t need
for your project. If you are trying to save disk space, you can delete portions of media
files that you know you don’t need. This process affects your media files, so it is
considered to be media management.
You can use the Media Manager to break the original media file into smaller media
files—one media file for each subclip. You can then delete the media files for any
subclips you don’t want to keep.
Important: It’s a good idea to break your media file into smaller media files before you
begin editing.
To organize subclips you want to keep and subclips you want to delete:
1 In the Browser, create two bins named “Keep” and “Delete”.
2 Review each subclip by playing it in the Viewer, then move it to the “Keep” bin or the
“Delete” bin.
3 Continue watching and sorting subclips until all the subclips are in either the “Keep” or
“Delete” bin.
There are many other techniques you could use to organize your subclips, such as
using two different labels, or using the Good property for subclips you want to keep,
and so on. Use whatever method works best for you.
To delete media not referred to by selected subclips:
1 Delete the master clip (the original clip that refers to the full-length media file).
2 In the Browser, select the subclips that you want to keep for use in your project.
If you used the method above for separating subclips into “Keep” and “Delete” bins,
select the subclips in the “Keep” bin. These are the subclips that refer to portions of the
media file you want to keep.
3 Choose File > Media Manager.
4 Choose Use Existing from the “Media referenced by selected items” pop-up menu.
5 Select the “Delete unused media from selected clips” checkbox.
This tells Final Cut Pro to delete any portions of the media file that are not referenced
by the subclips you currently have selected in the Browser.
6 Choose “Clip Names” from the “Base media file names on” pop-up menu.
This option uses the names of your subclips to name the resulting media files.
7 Make sure the “Duplicate selected clips and place into a new project” checkbox is
not selected.