Turning the Audio off...

Hello !!
I would love to turn all of the audio off for my entire project.
However, my media files were captured with audio. It is taking up extra room on my hard-drive and I do not need it. Thank you for your help...

Audio is captured with video; both are in the same clip file.
First, you need to understand that audio takes up a trivial amount of disk space compared to video; and even if you do delete the audio you are only going to free up a small amount of disk space, perhaps none if your clip files are small.
You can turn off the audio (as compared to deleting it) in the Timeline in FCE. One way is to simply +mute the audio+ by clicking the green audibility button on the left end of the track. Or you could +separate the audio+ tracks from the video track; +and then delete+ the audio tracks from the timeline - however, this does not physically delete the audio from the original clip on your hard drive, it only removes it from the timeline.
If you really want to physically delete the audio then you have work to do. Open the clip in FCE, place it in the Timeline, then Export the clip to QuickTime Movie - make sure that you CHECK the option called "Make Movie Self-Contained" and *Include > Video Only*. After you have exported the clip, you will have a clip that contains video only. Then you will have to delete the original clip from your hard drive and replace it with the clip you just exported.
Or you could use QuickTime Pro. Open your clip in QT Pro, then Export it to QuickTime Movie, select Options & then UNcheck 'Sound'. After it's done, you will have to delete the original clip from your hard drive and replace it with the clip you just exported.

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