Trim captured media from FCP in quicktime

i was wondering if there is any benefit to trimming media in quicktime that i captured in FCP. When i captured the media i left on handles big enough to build a bike from, and i was looking at cutting down the size of the media files. Is there a way to actually "cut" out the unwanted handles in final cut, or should i do it in Quicktime 7 pro?

Well, here's the issue. FCP is an editing application. You import material, you cut it down into smaller and/or re-arranged sequences and then export it as your final-- whether that is-- back to tape, to dvd, to computer playable file or any other possible medium.
It's simply a matter of not capturing more than you need, if you're concerned that you took in way too much footage. Finish up the project, archive what you have to and delete ALL of it from your drives. And drives are cheap these days, so what the heck, get a couple more. A terrabyte costs about 1000 dollars. That's cheap. Try buying a terrabyte 15 years ago! You would have had to sell your house and your kids.

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Everything else I am reading here is a bit inaccurate to say the least. Dragging clips from the sequence to the browser will still create instances of the clips with the same media start and end times as the master clips. Hence this does not remove the unused media from the clips, and never will, no matter what you do. Understanding the difference between the media start & end and in & out is fundamental to understanding Final Cut.
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In my experience, changing the field dominance from interlaced to progressive can cause stuttering particularly in motion graphics - this might not be an issue if you're laying to tape for broadcast but when you convert back to interlaced for SD DVD it can look very ugly.
In any case, at the very least, you need to be using a Kona card or IOHD to do this type of conversion properly - and really, if you want progressive you should shoot progressive.
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