media management tutorial

I hate to admit it inasmuch as I have been editing on various flavors of Avid since the mid 90's, but what I finally must admit to needing is a good media management tutorial. I all too frequently lose files when deleting old projects. Here is what I do.

One program I regularly edit is a bi-monthly magazine format show. They shoot several segments ahead, and I never know which segments are going to end up in which episodes, so I have created a 'master segments' project with a bin for each individual show segment. When I finally know which segment goes where, I open its bin in the appropriate episode's project and assemble from there. So far so good. I can move segments around from episode to episode as the liquid program outline changes from day to day.

My problem occurs when the final episode is finished, broadcast, and copies made. Time to delete from the Avid. Since I can't figure out how to delete from just one bin (segment) I always end up loading the media tool for the entire project, looking through it line by line and deleting what looks to be the elements for that particular segment. As you can imagine, this takes what feels like forever, and of course I end up deleting the wrong stuff from time to time. I am pretty good about keeping track of original materials, so I can get them back. But...

There has to be a better way. Hence the wish for a media management tutorial after all this time.

Mikey

Avid Xpress Pro Mojo 5.6.7
WindowsXP 2002
HP Workstation XW8000
2.80 Ghz
2.0 GB RAM