Delete unused footage in iMovie 10.0.6

I have used previous versions of iMovie and found that I was able to delete any unused footage in a clip. For example you had a video clip that was 2 minutes long, but you only used a 10 second snip of it in a project you could delete the remaining 1 minute and 50 seconds which was great in clearing your hard drive. I was able to do this by selecting a folder then holding down command and delete buttons, delete unused footage. In iMovie 10.0.6 I can't seem to be able to do this or find a simular feature. Any ideas?

Hello Yanuar Tourniquet,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities! The new iMovie interface includes a few video effects that may achieve what you want. For information on how to apply these effects to your clips, check out the following resource:
Add video and audio effects - iMovie Help
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0.6/#/movd17f56aaa
Add a video effect to a clip
1. In the browser or the timeline, select a clip or range.
2. To show the effects controls, click the Video and Audio Effects button.
3. Click the Video Effect button, and then click the video effect you want to apply to the clip.
To remove a video effect, select the clip or range containing the effect, click the Video Effect button, and click None.
Cheers,
Matt M.

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I always make an edit of my videos and therefore end up with a fair amount of footage in each event which is not needed any more.
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Use the Reject Tool to drag with your mouse over the frames you don't need. They will be marked with a red bar underneath. If you want to reject a whole clip, you can right-click and reject the clip that way too.
Then, select "Rejected Clips Only" in the selection box at the bottom.
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Here is the direct quote from the iMovie 08 Tutorial.
"If you try to delete an Event that has clips being
used in a project you will see an alert window.
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that Event that are not being used in a project."
I have been taking 50 minute videos on my camcorder and uploading them to the iMac. On about all of the clips I only use 5 minutes of footage. I was looking for a way to save space and I found this quote in the iMovie user guide, so I tried it.... but it messed up every single one of my projects that had the event files clips in them. The footage i needed still showed up under the event, but none of my projects that used these clips were working. Did I do something wrong?
Has anyone else had this problem?

I'm confused now but then it could be the sort of thing that needs to be actually seen. Don't have an Apple Store nearby you could pop into to ask a genius do you?
I'm successfully removing unwanted footage without affecting the project as long as the footage isn't in a project. There was one moment where I got the warning signs in a project and the thumbnails went blank but restarting iMovie fixed that.
Maybe if you described the exact process you've been through from start to finish as far as rejecting and removing footage goes I or someone could see where you went wrong.
With something new like iMovie 08 I think it's probably best to start with just one project, exploring all the features including removing footage so that you get a good grasp of it before really getting stuck into it. I wish I'd been a bit more patient myself.
Have you fully explored iMovie's Help topics for "Removing unwanted video from your hard disk"?

Problems deleting unused footage

imovie doesn't throw away unused footage that i have cropped even though i empty the trash in imovie. i have looked inside the package contents of the movie project and the only files there are the original DV files that i have imported and not the individualy edited clips.
This is a problem because im trying to make a 10 minute trailer clip from 200 hours of footage captured in individual DV files and can't import anymore DV clips because of low HD space.
I want to save the 10 minute trailer as a movie project that i can adjust later but i don't want to store a file full of huge original DV clips.
It didn't used to be like this. if i imported footage from a DV cassette imovie would delete the cropped parts of footage from the project. is there a difference in importing DV files?
Any help will be appreciated.

This is a problem because im trying to make a 10
minute trailer clip from 200 hours of footage
captured in individual DV files and can't import
anymore DV clips because of low HD space.
Why import 200 hours to an iMovie project just to build a 10-minute trailer? Isn't there some way you can pre-select the chunks you plan to use and ignore the rest?
• iMovie 5/6's non-destructive editing is a lot smarter (and considerably more robust) than earlier versions of iMovie. When some feature of non-destructive editing doesn't do what we want, we can usually find a way around it. Like any other new feature, we need to understand how this tool works, and how to use it to our advantage.
• When importing video from a camera, iMovie offers a built-in preference that lets us discard Media files later. We can use the preference that limits the length of imported clips to 2 minutes or whatever. Then later, if we don't use any of the 2 minutes contained in Clip 100 we can discard the clip, empty the iMovie trash, and recover the disk space occupied by the 2-minute Media file.
Note that iMovie's non-destructive editing feature doesn't prevent us from discarding ALL material. It only does this: It preserves the entire Media file stored in the project's Media folder. It never shortens those files, unlike earlier versions of iMovie.
But it preserves ONLY the Media files the project actually uses. When we discard the LAST clip using a Media file and empty the iMovie Trash, the entire file is discarded. Then we recover that disk space.
So if a project contains 200 Media files and we use 1 second from each, none will be discarded when we empty the iMovie Trash. But if we use just 10 of those files, 190 will be discarded when we empty the Trash.
(By "using" a file I mean that the Timeline or the Clips pane contains a clip that uses is.)
• When importing DV movies (instead of importing from a camera) we can use QuickTime Pro to trim the DV files to a reasonable size. Open a DV file, remove the stuff you won't use in iMovie, then Save As a reference file you import to iMovie later. Reference files are tiny, so you waste no disk space doing this, and iMovie imports only the stuff you actually need.
You can even Copy and Paste chunks from multiple DV files into a single reference movie that you import later to iMovie. A reference movie can point to one DV file, or many.
Once a reference movie has been saved to disk, we can drag the tiny icon in the titlebar of the QuickTime Player window directly into the iMovie project Timeline.
Or we can select the frames we want in a DV movie, then click in the movie window and drag it to the Desktop. The Mac builds a new "Movie Clipping" reference movie that plays that chunk. Rename the clipping file (optional) and drag it to the iMovie Timeline.
• Another strategy is to export your rough-cut Timeline to a camera, re-import it to a new iMovie project and discard the original project. So if your Timeline uses just 1 minute of the 20 hours in the project, the project shrinks from 260GB to 0.2GB.
Lots of ways to go.
Karl

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Zachy,
It goes something like this...
Put your new drive in the enclosure. Use Disk Utility to format it, etc. I'd give it a slightly different name than the original. Let's say you have Old Disk and New Disk as your drive names. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy Old Disk to New Disk. Now you should have an exact copy, which you can test by rebooting and holding down the Option key. Choose New Disk from the list and let it boot, make sure all is well.
Shut down and physically swap the drives. Take Old Disk and put it in the enclosure. Now your system has a new disk with a lot more space and you can reformat your old disk and just use it for large files or whatever.

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To reject all of the video that you haven’t marked as “favorite,” select “Not marked as Favorite.”
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*HOW TO DELETE UNUSED MEDIA FROM HARD DRIVE IN FINAL CUT PRO.* Keywords: disk disc drive space remove compressor
SUMMARY:
Say your original clip is 10 gigs, you can use only what you need and delete the rest from your hard drive. I know people on the forums say to just buy another hard drive, NO! It took 2 days to figure out but here it is!!! Email me if needed at [email protected]
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I captured 1 hour of video at a time and now want to delete from my hard drive all the parts I don’t want to use. I have 300GB of junk on my hard drive and I only want to use a few scenes using a few megabytes, so that I'll get most of my 300GB back!!!!
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I'm following the directions EXACTLY as shown in the section "Creating Independent Media Files From Subclips After Capturing" from the Final Cut Pro User Manual on page 377 selecting subclips I want to keep and using Media Manager to delete unused media, but my media hasn't gotten any smaller, and the blank frames in the original media are still there if I reconnect it.
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x

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I posted this in the iWeb forum and then thought about posting it here.
-Lorna in Southern California
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I still haven't set up my new 500 gig La Cie external hard drive but I am going to, especially since my existing 111 gig La Cie ext. hd is making screeching sounds at startup.
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hard drive...
Before using that drive, use Disk Utility to format the drive with the Mac OS Extended disk format. Even if the drive already uses that format, I strongly suggest formatting it again. You may save yourself a ton of problems.
I read in 2005 that iMovies made from/in/with iMovie
'04 were giving troubles to owners who then swtched
to iLife '06. I would read the iMovie forums and
discovered that there were (it seemed to me) an
inordinate number of problems with people who tried
to make movies in iMovie '06 with film footage
imported previously into iMovie '04.
The vast majority of problems have nothing to do with iMovie 6. They have to do with third-party plug-ins used to create clips in iMovie 4, plug-ins that are not compatible with iMovie 6. When such a project is converted to iMovie 6 iMovie 6 doesn't know what to do with those clips.
If you haven't used such products in iMovie 4 the conversion of projects to iMovie 6 will probably go smoothly. (I've never had a problem converting projects, but I don't use third-party plug-ins.)
To be safe, ALWAYS make a copy of your iMovie 4 project and convert THAT to iMovie 6. If there's a problem, you'll still have the original. You can use the original to import the iMovie 4 Timeline to iMovie 6.
My thinking now is that although I have that 2000 or
2001 footage sitting in iMovie '04 folders, I should
upload those very same clips/footage from my Sony
digital video camera recorder DCR-TRV 11 into my iMac
and store the uploaded footage in the La Cie 500 gig
big daddy HD. Then, after the footage is uploaded and
sitting in iMovie '06 folders, I would go and delete
the old iMovie '04 footage.
That step isn't necessary, actually. Just drag each iMovie 4 project to your new drive and make a duplicate (or keep the old one on the old drive) before converting it.
Karl

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Any suggestions as to what is happening?
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I recently used Media Manager for the first time to clean up an old project of mine, and delete unused media to save some space. Having read and re-read all manuals/help I proceeded with the 'Use Existing' command in the Media Manager...and now a big portion of my files are offline.
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Ive used spotlight and searched through my HD and lacie - and I cant find the location above at all! Im getting worried, as i need to go back into the project to make some really minor changes but cant face re-capturing material then eye-matching the shots ive used, it will take days! These clips must be floating around somewhere on the system?
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Is there a way to delete unused clips not used in a project? iMovie has that option, but I can't find it in Final Cut Pro X. Or is there a way to see which clips are used in your project and which are not?

Witih the project open, click the "Page" button in the lower left of the window. If you mouse over it, the tooltip will tell you it is the "Timeline Index". When you open it, by defauilt it will list all clips in use with that project. It will actually show you every "clipped clip". So if you have trimmed a lot of stuff and have 20 "subclips" of the original clip from the Event Browser, you will see 20 clips of the same name.
If you have played around in it, perhaps it will show other information. In that case, just click "clips" at the top and "Video" at the bottom.
It is a very useful little window. If you want to go to a particular clip in the project, just click on it in the Index.
If you have set up titles, click the "Titles" button at the bottom, and you can go to any title by clicking on it.
Similarly, if you have set up markers, you can click "tags" at the top of the window and "markers" at the bottom of the window, then click any name and go to the marker.
A feature I really love is being able to turn markers into "todo" items to remind yourself (for instance) to go back to put in a title, or work on the color correction a bit more, or whatever.
Anyway. More information than you asked, but that's the way to tell what clips have been used.
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When we're finished editing a program on FCPro (latest version, with almost new computers) we'll go thru the Media Manager and use "Delete Unused Media" - and then save that (the folder and Sequence clapperboard)onto a DVD-R.
Works great. And almost always restores perfectly.
But sometimes, although we shoot on a CF Card (Canon XF300 camera and a Panasonic HVX200) the client will give us a Betacam tape, we need to capture from that - and of course Media Manager won't take "just a short clip" we use from that card. As I understand - it doesn't have the proper Time Code or something like that, not really relevant to my 'issue' here!
But then the "Delete Unused Media" files can be 12 or more gig. so it needs several DVD-r's to write to. We use "BackUp" the Apple program that comes with Mobileme to do this as it seems to understand how to breakup a large file to multiple dvd-r's. Usually restores them just fine, too.
But it can be a little flakey . . . it crashes more often than it should during this lengthy procedure. We'll get a BackUp Failed" error. When we click 'history' we see some vague (to us) like "An internal application error has occurred. The archive could not be created. End Backup at . . . "
Doesn't help us much. We're using v 3.2 of BackUp. We'll have the same problem on a specific job with 3 different Mac's - so it's not "the" computer. Anyone have any experience with this . . . ?
It does work most of the time, seemingly intermittent when it fails.
Finally, maybe the easiest solution is to use some other program to backup to DVD'r's. Anyone know of any program that will backup large files (like Backup does) to multiple disks?
Thanks very much,
Larry

Hi Meg,
Thank you for your thoughtful response. BOY, did you open a can of worms around here! Either I just learned something VERY important from you that I didn't know (that I should know!), or perhaps you're mistaken in this particular instance ('cause I didn't make it clear in my original post - as it wasn't directly about THIS issue you've answered) - but in the back of my mind it IS a good issue - we'll see.
I did not know that about the reel name! I believe you're saying as long as it has a reel name - the Unused Media "portion" of it will be deleted when I do a DUM. (Delete Unused Media!)
OK - so we shoot on our Canon XF300 before I import it, I see it automatically names the Reel "Canon XF" and all the footage I shoot on the CF card - the DUM works perfectly. It also HAS a reel name!
But then the client give us an old Betacam tape - and we capture the footage from that. Say it's a 30 minute tape. What I've found - and we're trying to figure out how to avoid - is if there is a 30 second scene on that 30 minute tape that we incorporate into the sequence - when I DUM the sequence - it will save the entire 30 minute tape! Even though we just want to use 30 seconds. That's how it works. Now I don't remember if we "name" that Betacam tape as a reel - we probably do, but I don't remember. But are you saying . . . that if the "capture" (whether from analogue tape or digital cards) has a REEL NAME - the DUM feature will work?
I sure hope you're right - because so far - DUM works for us perfectly - EXCEPT when I include 'old' footage from Betacam or M2 tapes. Of course, that creates a very big file we're NOT wanting 95% of. So I think you're saying if we go back to the DUM sequence and "name" the beta tape - (if it isn't now) - then the DUM feature will work perfectly, as it does now on everythig else.
Thank you Meg - this is important to us as it comes up all the time.
Now pretend you're wrong and the Betacam footage DOES have a reel name. A workaround would be to take each clip we use from the Betacam tape and make a self contained movie of those few seconds, and use that on the timeline. But that would be really bulky. I'm really hoping you're right about the reel name. Have you had any experience with this?
Really thanks, Larry

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