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phatramp

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Hi people hows it going, I am using prem 6.5 & have various bits of footage that I have taken the best bits from so I no longer need the original footage on my computer taking up space. The question is how to delete this footage because every time I try to delete this I lose my project aswel.

I kinda think there is a simple way of doing this but I cant do it:embarasse

Help meeeeeeeeeeeeee.
 
I work with Premier pro 1.5, but if you cut some footage from a clip the program only maintains a reference to the original clip for this edit. In other words you need the original to bring up the editted footage in the project. You can't delete the original until you're finished with the project. Hope this helps.
-dvxwheelr
 
All I can think of is, for each clip:

-> start with a fresh sequence (timeline)
-> chop the raw clip up and put the good bit on the timeline
-> File>Export>Movie, make sure it's DV AVI, save it in a folder called "Good Bits" or whatever

When you've done that with all of your clips, you can delete the original source clips in My Computer (they'll probably have the same name that they do in your Project window in Premiere). Just make sure you don't delete the Premiere Project file (with the new premiere it's "whatever.prproj" but I forget what it is for old premiere... prm?)

This is kind of annoying and will take a little time but if you're really hard up for space it might be the ticket. Just make sure you've taken everything that you need! You'll have to recapture if you find you've chopped a clip half a second too early.
 
Thanks overnigt... My hard drive is filling up fast too. By the way, when you delete a clip rendering does PPro automatically delete the render preview file?
_dvxwheelr
 
dvxwheelr said:
Thanks overnigt... My hard drive is filling up fast too. By the way, when you delete a clip rendering does PPro automatically delete the render preview file?
_dvxwheelr
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It doesn't delete the preview files and what's worse, the conformed audio is also not deleted. Go ahead and look into your Premiere folder and find the Conformed Audio folder. Chances are there is a huge amount of files in there, which is part of the reason your hard drive is filling up.

You can safely delete those audio files.

NOTE: conformed audio is created whenever you import an AVI clip into Premiere. You don't absolutely need to keep the files if you want to work with with the original clip because when you import the raw footage it'll simply re-conform it. Hope that makes sense and helps a little.
 
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