Offline Batch Capturing

Hi Guys,
This is the situation I was in earlier today:
I needed to dig out an old FCP project to re-edit a video that was edited and signed off months ago. Consequently all of the media was deleted / taken offline.
According to the FCP manual, I should use the media manager to create an Offline copy of the project (which was already offline!), with which I selected 'delete unused media', hoping that I would have to digitise the media (with handles) ONLY used on the timeline.
However I could not get this to work. The batch capture wanted to capture over 2.5 hours of material from several tapes for an edited sequence that is around 10 minutes long!
What do you think I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

You aren't doing anything 'wrong'. FCP is capturing the 'clip' you specified. If you originally captured your media in long segments and used sub-clips to break down the larger clip to edit, this is exactly how recapturing should behave.
The only way I know to prevent this is to export your individual sub-clips and reimport them as stand alone clips. This way they will be independent of the original media.
Media Manager may have some settings to automate this process for you but my experience with it was so problematic, I don't use it. Perhaps in 5.1.2 it is better - can't say.
good luck.
x

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