Remove or delete a source file from a project
How to take an imported file out of a project by asking Eddie, including a duplicate or a file you no longer need, and what removal does not undo.
To take a clip out of one edit, ask Eddie to remove it from that edit. The file stays in the project. This article is about removing an imported file from the project itself.
There is no button for this in the project view. You ask Eddie in the chat. It works the same in the web app and in the desktop app.
Ask Eddie
Tell Eddie which files to remove. For example:
- "I imported interview.mov twice. Remove the extra copy."
- "Delete the five reference clips. I don't need them in this project."
You can name several files in one request. When two copies share a filename, name the copy by its number in the source list.
Removal takes two steps:
- Eddie shows you a plan first, and removes nothing yet. The plan lists every file that would go, and how many copies of each filename stay.
- Say yes, and Eddie removes them.
If a file is the project's only copy, the plan says so. Removing it takes that footage out of the project, not only a duplicate. Eddie removes it only when you say yes to exactly that.
Removing a file is free. It costs no credits.
What Eddie will not remove
Eddie refuses the whole request, and removes nothing, when it includes:
- a file that any edit in the project uses. Take its clips out of those edits, or delete the edit, then ask again;
- a camera angle in a multicam group, the main audio file of a multicam project, or a clip that came in as part of a timeline from your editing app. If Eddie grouped files that are not angles of the same take, ask Eddie to ungroup them first.
Eddie says which file was refused and why. To remove the other files, ask again without the refused one.
What removal does not undo
- Credits already spent importing and analysing the file are not refunded.
- You cannot undo a removal. To get the file back, import it again.
- Your own copy of the file, on your computer or in your storage, is not changed.
While an import is still running
Removal is for files that are already imported. During an import in the web app, use the import screen:
- Cancel remaining import stops the files that are still waiting. Footage that finished stays in the project.
- When an import waits on a file that stopped making progress, click Continue without this file (or Continue without these files).
Skipped files are listed in your import report. You can import them again later.
To remove everything at once, delete the project.