Strange red line on timeline?

Cher Meg The Dog,

Weird. Ha ha ha. Could be a mystery. Could be either of two things I did?

I was working with a proxy version of the film, bringing in shots from another version ... NON proxy version shots. For some reason FCPX was just playing them as 'original' format (in among the proxy files, without making them the expected red 'missing proxy'... so they were working fine on the timeline, but that red line was up there. I went to the shot in the Browser and it wouldn't let me make a 'proxy' file. But it would let me make an 'optimized media'. So I tried that. And the red line disappeared as the transcoding was happening. Now, while I was waiting for the transcode (not watching the timeline) I read your email and did a quick return to the head of the timeline, which was set with all zeros. So I didn't touch it. Didn't reset anything. But. When I went back to the clip I saw the red line was gone.

So it was either initiating the transcoding, or just flipping back to the head of the timeline, that did the trick.

Thanks for your help Meg The Dog. Very much appreciated, always.

Ben

But one of those delightful bugs that disappears without sucking one into a deep dark hole for days.

As I fire up the system for another delightful day of trying to figure out how to cut a 90 minute film to 45 minutes and still have it coherent.

Success being when someone who's seen the 90 minute version looks at the 45 minute version and can't remember anything that's missing. Wish me luck.