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Anonymous
March 22, 2017
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How to CUT Unused SOURCE Film

  • March 22, 2017
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Hello,

New to PP,  have went through a hand full of tutorials and am doing fine.  Only thing I cannot figure out is how to CUT (as in delete forever) bad source.

For example:  I filmed an hour, for various reasons I only like 10 minutes of the entire import.  I want that 10min, and delete (as in erased off of my drive) the 50 min of useless junk.

this should be super simple but I spent a day searching for how to do it to no avail and am forced to make this post...

Thank You For Your Time

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    excited_Genie16B8
    Legend
    March 22, 2017

    how to CUT (as in delete forever) bad source.

    You don't.

    kirkeric
    kirkeric
    Inspiring
    March 22, 2017

    I may be interpreting this different than Neil but I think you want to keep the 10 minutes and lose the other 50 from your source file.

    I don't think that can be done inside of Premiere other than to render the 10 minutes at same resolution, then delete the raw file.

    Personally, unless space is an issue, I'd work the project to completion and then delete the raw file later but, the cleanest way to get to your goal, at least I think, is render out what you want so you are just working with that.  Then bring it back in, delete the long one.

    Eric

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    March 22, 2017

    Probably a good catch there ... I was making an assumption the OP would have sub-clipped the usable section or had already exported that to a new file ... not a good assumption to make with someone new to PrPro.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    March 22, 2017

    PrPro does not delete from the drive itself, only the project. So to do that you can right-click on the clip in the Project panel, select "show in Explorer/Finder" to open your OS's file manager, then in PrPro delete the clip from the project, and probably close so the clip is not "in use" ... then in the file manager, delete if from the drive.

    Re-open PrPro and you should be fine.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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