How to CUT Unused SOURCE Film

Report · Mar 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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Report · Mar 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

Report · Mar 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

Report · Mar 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

Report · Mar 22, 2017

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Thanks for the replies guys,

Eric,

YES that is exactly what I need... and i came to the same conclusion. I wonder how much data is lost in exporting it to say, the desktop... deleting the entire project, then re-imporing it as the isolated clip.

Seems surprisingly cumbersome. (... but maybe they are working around a Patent! lol)

I'll risk taking flac saying that even amateur iMovie; with a click-drag of the mouse and a hit of the delete key... all unwanted footage is gone in a snap. Of course you have to empty trash for TRUE gone, but my point is, it takes all of 5 seconds, and Saves MAD disc space.

What format would you export as for Most Lossless product?

Neil, Many Thanks For your Response, I understand what you are referring to, and that is a convenient shortcut for deleting clips

I want to extract a good "clip" then trash the source file. Every time i try to trash the source file it trashes my "clip" along with it.

- edit saw your second reply after I posted srry

Report · Mar 22, 2017

The Eternal Question of which wrapper/codec to save a file in ... yep, we've all been there.

Cineform & DNxHD/R are excellent codecs, depending on setting visually lossless. Not necessarily small file size.

Some of the mp4 options can get smaller files sizes, maybe not quite so visually lossless, especially if you're going to edit and export again from those clips.

There's all sorts of answers for this. Interesting to see if others post.

Neil

Report · Mar 22, 2017

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

You don't.