Find Unused Media in Final Cut Pro

Posted on by Jeff Riegel, Producer/Editor

by Larry Jordan

Have you ever wanted to find a shot you haven’t used yet? Yeah, happens to me all the time. Fortunately, Final Cut Pro makes it easy.

Here’s how to either find the media you are using, or find the media you are NOT using.

Let’s start by displaying all the media we are currently USING in our project. To keep this simple, I’m illustrating a timeline containing three shots from a total Browser list of five shots. (Yes, I know, no project is this tiny, but it keeps my screen shots small…)

In this example, my media is stored in two events:

  • Water
  • Mountains

NOTE: In the screen shot above, I selected two events: Mountains & Water. Notice how the Browser then groups all the clips by event.

FIND USED MEDIA

To get started, open the project containing the media you want to search into the Timeline. [Read on…]

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For two decades, Jeff Riegel was a senior level Producer/Editor for the Department of Defense and various government contractors in Northern Virginia. Outside of the workplace, Jeff keeps himself busy with the creation of festival worthy documentaries "Tori Nelson: Fighting for Her Future" and the once nominated and two-time Emmy award winning "A Journey of Education and Remembrance." His short film "The Great Realisation" captured the eyes at 18 international film festivals with various winning honors; a poem that takes on heavy themes such as fevered capitalism, man-made ecological issues, digital addiction during the global Covid blight. Jeff is looking for funding investors and co-producing "The Lost Clipper," a two+ decades project about the first hijacking in U.S. history and the search for those 15 lost souls abducted in 1938, the true first act of war with Japan. Filming takes him to Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Canada, and locations across the U.S. (see www.LostClipper.com) He enjoys creating media-marketing social networking campaign for personalities such as 13-time world boxing champion Tori Nelson, Netflix's "Narcos" personalities Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, and renowned landscape photographer Frank Lee Ruggles. Jeff is eager to attack any project head-on. Jeff's Motto: think beyond convention...and consider it done!