Can Premiere Pro move unused source clips from one drive to another?

[Letty2019]

I hope I asked that  correctly.

Scenario:

I have 1000 avi movie clips on Drive "A"

I've imported those clips into Premiere Pro and used 50% of them in sequences.

The other 50% are not being used.

Is there a way Premiere Pro can "move" the unused clips from Drive "A" and move them to drive "B" ?

Or at least identify used or non used clips so I can move them manually?    Searching and viewing 1000 clips would be impossible manually.

Any tips or advice is highly appreciated.

Best,

Letty

[Ann Bens]

Go to the Metadata display and check Video Usage.

You can see which clips have been used and which one not.

Premiere cannot move clips from one drive to another: it can make them offline or delete them entirely from the hdd.

[Letty2019]

Thanks, but with this method, I would have to manually search each file and select each one to go 'off line' then manually delete them singularly?

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

As mentioned, you can copy, but not move. (I could have used this in the past--it would be a useful feature request.)

1. With the metadata view, sort by usage
2. Move all the unused clips into a bin
3. Add all clips in that bin to a new sequence
4. Use Project Manager to collect that sequence to another location.

To remove the clips from the original location, you will need to compare the collected clips to the original folder. I didn't see what OS you are using, but I see there are VBA scripts available for Windows 10; I imagine there is one for Mac too.

[Letty2019]

Thanks!  I will try.  The only problem I see up front is, I have to manually go thru dozens and dozens of folders, searching for unused clips, then place them all in a sequence, then follow your steps.  Then....  after moving everything to a new drive, got back and manually remove each original clip from the original drive?

It just seems a bit too much to for this goal. 

Might be easier to get another hard drive to share the work load instead of moving unused original clip files.

Strange after all these years, PPro doesn't have a way to organize original clip files in this manner?

[Ann Bens]

You can sort any column in the project window.

Strange after all these years, PPro doesn't have a way to organize original clip files in this manner?

AFAIK This is the first time someone ever asked such a question.

[Letty2019]

Thanks again Ann, but it will only sort within one bin at a time.     I've got dozens and dozens of bins, (full feature film)  I think I might just buy another hard drive lol.

I just know the techs will come out with a new way to organize clips.... after I'm done editing.

[Letty2019]

Thanks Ann for your time and screen shots.  Those helped.

[Mo Moolla]

Hi Letty

Yes sure this can be done

Use the Project Manager in Premiere to do this

It will collate all used files and leave all unused files on the drive you choose

Let me know

Mo

[Ann Bens]

Proj.Man will collect and COPY all used files to a new folder.

Original folder will still contain used an unused files.

OP wants Premiere to move the unused file to a new location.

[Letty2019]

Thanks, but when you write:  ...will collect and COPY all used "files"....  you mean the "files" inside the PPro program itself and not the original source files on the hdd ? Caz isn't that what the Program Manager does.... moves the PPro files around, but not the original source files.

I would like to at least identify all the real source files I've used, so I can move the old files that are not being used off the hdd.

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Just to answer you initial question: no.