waltervolpatto wrote:Important note:
if you have a compound clip, that compound clip will be marked as [used], but the clips inside the compound clip will NOT be marked as used.
same for any [matte] that is not attached to a clip but used in a color correction node.
This still hasn't been fixed.
Furthermore, the number in the usage column will show an instance for every video and audio track a clip has. This means that if you have a clip with 2 mono audio tracks and 1 stereo track in a timeline, then the media pool will say it is being used 4 times when in fact it is just being used once! This is VERY unhelpful! I had a very large project which I used remote grading for, and I wanted to use a new project in order to grade a further 4 edits. Of course, the only way of keeping the remote grades would be to keep a timeline with all the media I needed within - luckily I had a Master timeline, though alternatively I could just keep the existing Timelines until I had imported all the new ones, which I did. So I duplicated the project, imported the new timelines and all the grades I needed were available. Now I set out to delete all the media and timelines I wouldn’t be needing, so I deleted all the old timelines, highlighted all the bins and updated the Usage column, in lieu of deleting any clips which only had a usage of 1, since they would only be in the Master timeline and not any of the new edits. Well unfortunately I couldn’t do that because everything had a usage count of 6 or more! So I had to keep all my old media - I couldn’t even change the bin structure because I wouldn’t have any way of knowing which bins contained redundant media. Very messy!
Flagging isn't an adequate solution since anything within a compound node would not be flagged so I'd have to open them individually, adding to what would already be a very time consuming process considering how many timelines I had.
(also, what's the Q forum?)