Q: Audio Files Import with Blank Dummy Video(blue) Files
I've never come across this before, been using FCPX since day one. I'm editing a wedding for someone and all of the externally recorded audio imported with dummy blue files attached (see photo.) Each row (4 clips) represents 1 piece of recorded audio. I'm used to having two green audio clips as many recorders spit out a stereo mix file in addition to the file containing the individual multitrack audio. I'm not used to the two blue clips that came with it for some reason. The audio was recorded on a Zoom H6, but that doesn't really matter at this point.
Each row in the photo is 1 audio recording. I gather from the filenames that the first clip in each row is the stereo mix. the second is channels 1-2. Then the two blue ones would be channels 3-6 which weren't used. I'm used to audio recorders spitting out a stereo mix in addition to the multitrack file, so that's not a surprise that there are two green clips. The problem is that I cannot click on or select the blue clips. I can reorganize the green clips just as I normally do, but all the blue clips remain unchanged cluttering up the "No Data" section. I just want to delete them, or hide them, or anything really. I can't select them to reject them. Clicking on them does nothing. They're like ghost clips or something.
Late 2014 Retina 5K iMac
32gb RAM
Radeon R9 M290X 2gb
OSX 10.11.4
FCPX 10.2.3
Side note: After spending a really long time writing this post just before hitting the "Post" button I clicked to "add or edit product" which forced this whole post to revert to the last auto save which deleted 90% of what I wrote. It's a little infuriating to have that happen in the middle of attempting to seek help with something. I hit back several times, I even got to a page that still had my entire post on it, then watched as it reverted to auto-saved right in front of my eyes and I couldn't get any of the text back . How is that even an option?
Then while writing this, I deleted something and changed my mind. Hit command Z to undo. Instead of bringing back the text I just deleted, it deleted everything I just wrote, then the "Redo" button was greyed out and I couldn't get that text back either. What's the point of undo/redo if they don't work?!
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
Posted on May 16, 2016 5:55 PM

