Media Manager Equivalent in FCE

My girlfriend just got FCE and we are working on sports highlight movie of a sports season. Each game tape is like 40 minutes long, which we've used "Capture Now" to create 1 long clip per game. We only need 2 minutes or so of footage from each game. After we've made the subclips (in the browser), how can physically delete the big clip (40 minute long file) and only save the smaller subclips and physical media used by those subclips ? [ in essence deleting the unused media from big file]

Only by exporting, trashing the original media file, and reimporting. You might be better off using the Clip method and selectively capturing just the pieces you need.

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    dknight38 wrote:
    …  would end up with a project and copied reference files that only took up a few GBs at most.   …
    … for one player.-
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    but - theoretically - with your method you save the same material again and again:
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    Is there any equivalent to Media Manager in FCPX?   What we had wasn't perfect, but was incredibly useful.

    So in other words, No.  There's no way to trim unused media while copyng, no way to recompress the media copied to a different codec during the xfer, no way to add handles to media copies - none of the good functionality available in FCP 7.   Media management is completely essential to any editing app, and FCPX doesn't have any.

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    This one should be obvious but I can't quite figure it out: I used media manager to recompress my project into a smaller one. Media manager did a nice job with that and placed all the files into a new folder BUT - where is the actual project file?? If I use the actual fcp project file from the original- the settings are all different and it told me that some media files are missing or too short. Doesn't media manager create a new project file that works with the new recompressed files that it just created??

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  • BB 8330 Media Manager, Media Sync hanging - not connecting...

    (I just know this is treated in depth somewhere but after a couple of hours of searching, I can't find it so appologies in advance...)
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    IrwinII
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