Clips Not Showing Up During Import?

Try trashing the preferences as detailed below but note that when FCP X opens it will be in its default (as new) state with no projects loaded.

You will have to navigate to any project you need.

If  FCP X starts behaving unexpectedly in any way for no apparent reason, the problem could be caused by corrupt preference files. 

The cure for this is to delete the preferences. 

 Hold down the  Cmd and Option keys as you launch  FCP X and a window will appear asking if you wish to delete the preferences. 

Click “Delete Preferences” and  FCP X will open in the default (as-new) mode with no projects etc. on the interface. 

You will have to navigate to any project you were working on and reopen it.  Your project libraries by default are stored in your Movies folder unless you have specified somewhere different.

Deleting preferences is completely safe and because of its simplicity it should be the first thing you do when troubleshooting.

Here’s a little trick. Hold Opt-Cmd as the application launches. When the dialog asking if you want to trash preferences appears, release the Command key but keep holding Option. Click trash and continue holding Option. The What’s New screen appears, keep holding Option and click Continue. A screen will then appear asking for you to select a library to open. You can let go of Option and Locate your library on your hard drive.

Do you see the AVCHD bundle in the Import window? The media is on a camera hard drive I take it not a card. Do you have other content on the drive, stills, music, anything? Can you post screenshots of what’s happening in the import window and maybe of the hard drive of that mounts on the Desktop.

That’s right. You get the Open dialog you don’t get the random Untitled library that seems to confuse the heck out of many people for some reason. I didn’t notice it took notably longer in my system. The other way is to double click your library while holding Opt-Cmd for trash reset.

I tried it but just got the normal "Open Library" window.

The downside was that FCP X took much longer to open.