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RobBarrett
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Community Expert
July 3, 2024
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Add "Used X times" indicator to Media Replacement Comps in Project panel

  • July 3, 2024
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Currently when a media replacement essential property is used, a new comp is created under a "Media Replacement Comps" folder. However, if you later change the source of this media replacement, a new comp is created but the old one isn't removed. In a large project, this could end up with dozens of unused media replacement comps.

 

With most comps that are in use, clicking on them in the Project panel reveals a "used X times" indicator next to the file's preview. Media replacement comps that are in use don't share this behaviour, and in fact are shown in the Project panel when filtering to show only "Unused" items. If you were to delete these seemingly unused items, then any media replacement property is returned to its default state.

 

I would like to request that media replacement comps also show the "used X times" indicator, and that any that are in use are tagged as such, so that they are correctly filtered.

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RobBarrett
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 3, 2024

On further investigation, these media replacement comps do sometimes (but not always) appear to recognise that they are in use. Sometimes when you delete an unused comp, it is immediately deleted; when you delete a used comp (and sometimes with an unused comp), it first gives an "Are you sure?" warning. It's just that this recognition isn't used by the Project panel.