Resizing capture scratch/ large .mov files

Most of the time when I capture I get all the footage on the tape. I realized this is eating up my hard drive. Is there a way in quicktime I can edit these capture scratch files to where my capture scratch is contains only what I need?

Hi Paul,
In addition to Studio X and Andy there's another Media Manager workflow.
Make Subclips of the parts you want to keep. Advantage is that you can rename those subclips. Then use Media Manager: Delete unused media" and "filenames based on clipnames".
Read the manual before using Media Manager. It can be irreversible.
Also, to come to you original question, if you just want to delete some complete clips simple select those clips in FCP's browser and control Click > Make Offline > Remove from the disk. This deletes the quicktime files from the capture scratch folder on your disk. And it leaves the TC information of that clip within your project, so easy to recapture if needed. Note that this is also irreversible and you need to know what you are doing in these cases.
Rienk

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