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Delete project media

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- [Instructor] When your project is finished and you've output your file, the next thing you're probably going to want to do is clean up your system. The project files themselves in the bins are pretty small. They don't take up a lot of space, and you're probably going to want to keep them and archive them. But you might well want to clear out the media. If you're working with linked media, there isn't all that much to do. Here for example, I have a climbing media bin. There's lots of clips here. If I select one of these and hit delete, you can see all I'm deleting is the master clip. That's the link to the media. Media Composer doesn't manage media that is linked in this way, although you can search for clips using the media tool even if they're not fully ingested. Just cancel this. If I toggle over to my finder, here's our rock climber QuickTimes. And if you're not sure where the media is, you can always right click and choose reveal file. Here it is, and I'll go up a couple of…

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