When is consolidating media useful?

• A. Real-time collaboration
• B. Archiving projects
• C. Color grading workflows
• D. Exporting final cuts

Answer: (B)

Consolidating media is about creating a portable, self-contained set of assets for a project. That’s why it’s especially useful when archiving a project: it gathers only the media actually used by the timelines and bins into a single folder, preserving the file links so you can reopen later without missing assets. It can also trim unused media, reducing backup size and making the archive easier to store. Real-time collaboration relies on shared storage to keep assets in sync, color grading workflows depend on ongoing access to source media, and exporting final cuts is about output rather than asset portability — so archiving is the best use case for consolidation.