I don't have a machine ATM to test this, but I have a project and media files (complete with renders) done on a machine with several FX plugins. I need to consolidate this project and archive it, and I will delete all the render files first.
I expect that this should not be a problem to consolidate, as I'm only trying to consolidate the media . but who knows, maybe there is some dirty about to happen with 'Error 42 -unkown effect - cannot consolidate file e:\path\to\media\file.mxf to your slimmer project'
Anyone?