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Delete clips

Delete clips - Media Composer Tutorial

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Delete clips

- [Voiceover] Understanding the relationship between clips inside your project, and the media files in your storage, is critical to understanding Media Composer more broadly. And of course, one of the key factors is, what happens when you delete a clip inside of Media Composer. Now, we'll get into importing and ingesting and converting media files later on, but before we do that, I just want to show you here, I've got a few clips in a bin, and let's say I decide that I want to delete them. I want to clean up my project, maybe I even want to clear up some space in my storage. You'll notice that these clips in my selects bin have different icons, these three at the bottom have kind of a chain link icon, and the item at the top does not. The item at the top of the list is a clip that's been transcoded and ingested and converted, and added to a specific directory called the Avid media files folder, on my storage drive. Again, we'll get into why you might choose to do that, but what's…

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