Trim the Fat
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Filed in: Weekly Tip
Perhaps you were a
little bit less than careful when ingesting your
footage and now you have 10 hours of footage for a
10 minute show! Don’t worry, we can help you trim
the fat. One thing before we begin, though. THIS IS
DESTRUCTIVE! Please make sure you have a backup of
your media (tapes or archives of tapeless formats).
Also, it’s a good idea to only do this if you’re
sure there won’t be major changes to the show.
Depending on how your project is set up, you may also see a dialog labeled Additional Items Found. This is Final Cut Pro’s way of double-checking other open projects that reference the media you’re about to process.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.
- Select the sequence you wish to trim in the Browser.
- Choose File > Media Manager.
- From the Media pulldown, choose Use existing.
- Check the Delete unused media from duplicated items box.
- Check Use handles and add a couple seconds of handles.
- Uncheck Duplicate selected items and place into a new project if you’d like to stay in this project, or check it to create a new project. The new project will contain only the sequence you have selected and master clips folder with the trimmed media.
- If you have the duplicate selected items and place in new project box checked, you also have the option to Include nonactive multiclip angles. Check this if you aren’t sure if you will be switching back to other angles or uncheck it if you’re satisfied with the current selection of angles in a multiclip.
- Click OK to
start processing the media. If you chose to
create a new project, you’ll be prompted to name
and save the project.
Depending on how your project is set up, you may also see a dialog labeled Additional Items Found. This is Final Cut Pro’s way of double-checking other open projects that reference the media you’re about to process.
- Clicking Add will bring along that additional media in other projects;
- Continue will not bring along that media, but may make the clips offline in the other projects;
- Abort cancels
the operation.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.