I have a media management question.  I have a large project that went
through tons of revisions over the last year, but now it's finally done
and I need to do some major clean up.  But first I want to consolidate
the sequence.  Because the final avid project is so large and messy I
wanted to start clean.; ideally I'd have a new project containing just
the final sequence and the all the media used in that sequence.  I made
a new project and copied a version of my final sequence in to the bin. 
I then consolidated the sequence.  This worked great, the new clips 
were now linked to the new project, but the problem was non of of the
motion effects were consolidated and when I match framed them I was
told they were part of another project.  So after reading this forum I
changed the set the bin display setting and checked "Show Referenced
Clips" "Master Clip" "Motion Effect" and "Rendered Clips."  Then I
consolidated all the clips that appeared in my bin to my new drive. 
This made a big difference and almost everything seems to be
consolidated, except I have several graphic clips that came in with
alpha channels and are now considered to be precomputes so they can't
be loaded into the monitors. Now I have no way of knowing what project
these clips are considered part of and if the media is on my target
drive.  Is there anything I can do about this?  Ideally the master clip
with the alpha channel would appear as a usable source clip that can be
edited into the sequence, just like it was in my original project.  
Also, is there a cleaner more efficient way to consolidate my final
sequence in a new project?

Just Edit:

...except I have several graphic clips that came in with
alpha channels and are now considered to be precomputes so they can't
be loaded into the monitors

I'm going to assume that you mean these clips are online in your sequence, you just want to load them in the source monitor as source material again. While you cannot match frame back to precomputes, you can mark the entire graphic clip in your timeline, such as it is, and CTRL + ALT + c will load it in your source monitor and you can use the extend function to lengthen the clip in either direction to it's original full duration.

Thanks Larry, I like the speedy short cut for copying the clip into the clipboard and then loading it into the source monitor -all in one click.  And the extend function seems useful -I'd usually just use the trim function.  I just wish there was a way to check that the graphic clips were really consolidated onto the new drive AND considered part of the new project, because I was hoping to delete the original project's media in the media tool.  I was just going to delete all the media linked to the old project's name.

 If you chose the option I specified, (master clips remained linked to original media) your newly consolidated clips will be identifiable by the ".new" suffix added to the end of the file name. You can set up a bin view that includes project to confirm what project those clips are linked to.

I did this, but my problem is that the graphic clips only show up in the bin as rendered effects instead of Matte Key Effect Clips like the original source clips.  When I unmount the old drives and relink the sequence these graphic clips show up as offline, but all the other clips in the sequence are fine.

 That's strange, because while I've also had issues with imported graphics with alphas not consolidating over to another project, there was always a .new clip file in the bin, but offline.  If you still have your old project files, I would take all the imported graphic clip pointer files and put them in one bin in the new project. Then, an "offline" bin view would identify the clips that are offline which in your case should be all of them. Now, hopefully you still have the original files that were used to create those clips. If so, you could use the batch import function to restore those clips. Once restored, they will be online and automatically repositioned into your sequence with all keyframing and any other nested effects intact. Some re-rendering may be necessary. And they will be linked to your new project.

That worked like a charm.  Although it updated the clips in the new sequence it didn't link them to my new project so I had to consolidate the clips again.  Thanks so much for your help.

 You're quite welcome. I'm glad that worked out for you.

 By the way, CTRL + ALT + c is a great way to edit portions of a sequence back into itself, something the program doesn't allow you to do directly, like when you're making different versions of the same spot with different tags.  While CTRL + ALT + c will copy that portion of the sequence to the source monitor and leave the original marked portion in the timeline, CTRL + ALT + x will copy it to the source monitor and extract it from the timeline at the same time.

 Yes, these are great functions. They saved my life several times. Actually they work with Alt + C, too. No need for Ctrl + Alt + C.

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