How to reset when creating new video editing file? Whenever I create a new video editing file in Blender 2.8, it already includes a file that I have previously cut and am finished with. How do I get the program to stop including that file and actually give me a brand new clean format?
When you start blender or create a new file, blender opens your startup.blend.

You can setup blender anyway you want and save the startup file and get the same contents each time you create a new file. You have managed to save your startup.blend after you added the ever present video track.

To set things up the way you want -


Start blender
Remove the VSE track (and any other items)
Go back to the screen layout you want to start with.
Use - File->Defaults->Save Startup File