Consolidating Subclips

Please review items 1, 2, and 3 in the Introduction section of this chapter.

There are two common reasons why you may want to Consolidate Subclips:

• Situation 1: Reduce media (copying only portions you want and then deleting original media) – an example of this situation would be: you have ingested a very long duration of video and audio to create one Master Clip (for example, you captured a complete movie from a tape). Let's pretend that this single Master Clip is 90 minutes long. During the review process, you went through and created subclips of the portions you wanted to use. You've added up the duration of all the Subclips and they total just 30 minutes. This means that you have 60 minutes of media that you do not want to use and it is taking up valuable hard drive space. By Consolidating (copying) just the media that is being referenced by the Subclips (which makes brand new Master Clips for just those portions) and then deleting the original 90-minute long Master...