Automatic deleting of all clips which are not visible - compacting to a WYSIWYG-sequence

[Lichtsammler]

That's what I need a stupid computer for: after I finished an edit with many tracks I would like to reduce this timeline to have just the clips which play a role into the final video - of course by creating a copy of the sequence. This would reduce the size of the consolidated project a lot. It's a huge difference to archive all the clips exissting in a sequence (standard consolidation) or if you save all the clips which are really "visible" in the final video. That would save a lot of time and disk-space. Especially editing of concerts produces a lot of material, during editing I have several tracks (I don't like multi-cam-editing) but I wish I could clean up by clicking a button 🙂

[Michael Grenadier]

Might be useful for you to spend some time working with the multicamera workflow.  It's not exactly intuitive but it's very powerful once you've figured it out..     There is a command in the sequence menu called "simplify sequence."  Frankly, I have no idea what it does, but might be worthwhile to do some googling or maybe just duplicate your sequence and try it...

[smrpix]

You're looking for the "simplify sequence" function.

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/simplify-sequences.html

[Lichtsammler]

Of course I know this function and as it was published I thought YESSSS, but it doesn' work this way I wish. If I have to deactivate umwanted clips first I also can delete them.

[Lichtsammler]

I'M doing this for a long time and sometimes I'm using Resolve in multicam-mode to re-edit live-edited stuff, but for my other work, multcam is not an option. The requested feature would be good for any project and the simplify-thing does not this job. They have to add an "delete unused/invisible clips" - option.

[Michael Grenadier]

Not sure how simple this would be to implement from a programming point of view...  but suggest you make a feature request and then link to it in this thread so people can upvote it.      

[R Neil Haugen]

You say you'd expect to save disc space with this.

So are you expected it would mod the original video/asset files? So ... that it would cut away all the parts of the file you don't use, deleting those from disc?

If that's what you mean, that's  ... rather a terrifying suggestion to me.

Neil

[Lichtsammler]

Yes, it's possible to save disc space. After this requested feature the project manager could do the rest and create a new folder with a new slim project (with all used media, but now just the really used).

[Lichtsammler]

Thought, this is a feature request. Do I have to modify this somehow? 

[Michael Grenadier]

you're right...